water in tailights

guino · Post by **guino** » September 26th, 2007, 1:57 am

i just got some new tailights installed and everytime i take it thru the carwash water gets inside and never leaves anyone no how to get rid of the water?

TREVO123 · Post by **TREVO123** » September 26th, 2007, 3:59 am

Yup, bake them appart, remove lense clean them and then reaseal them.or u can drill a coulple holes in the bottom so the water can run out..

hotsiit · Post by **hotsiit** » September 26th, 2007, 5:55 am

+1 , I ended up doing both of those things Trevo said to the set of altezza lights I have.

Post by **Mooneggs** » September 26th, 2007, 9:14 am

TREVO123 wrote:or u can drill a coulple holes in the bottom so the water can run out..

Be very careful doing this as it may create a ton of small fracture cracks in the lexan(happened to me)!! I would NOT recommend drilling them!!! Try and take them apart and reseal them instead....

For a while I had a small aquarium in my right taillight

TREVO123 · Post by **TREVO123** » September 26th, 2007, 6:38 pm

Its just for the lazy ppl, u can drill; just be slow and simpe.. put a piece of tape done b4 u drill and drill into the tape, can prevent some cracking.

Tunes67 · Post by **Tunes67** » September 26th, 2007, 7:04 pm

Use stock tail lights that are in good shape.. they dont leak.

Tunes67

ninjajim4 · Post by **ninjajim4** » September 27th, 2007, 3:23 pm

TREVO123 wrote:Its just for the lazy ppl, u can drill; just be slow and simpe.. put a piece of tape done b4 u drill and drill into the tape, can prevent some cracking.

there's a groove all around between the clear and the black part.. just drill in over there, at the bottoms. i went through 2 pairs of altezzas trying to get em to stay sealed before i gave up and put holes in. never had a problem since