Thread: how to clean and paint the inside of your headlights

I assume no responsability if you screw up your headlights from not doing this properly !!!!!!

The lights get discolored on the inside to. Which im sure you guys know. There may be a write up on this but i dont know because i didnt search it.. But my point is,

1. Disasemble the light, remove all bulbs ect., all but the headlight itself. This also works for the corners.

2. Bake them in the oven for like a min or so on like 275-300 preheated temp. Keep checking on them and leave in longer as nessesary, but you dont want to melt them, so dont walk away from them while they are in there...

3. Keep trying to pull the lens off of it.You may also want to have a small flat screw driver handy to get it started. Be gentle you also dont want to scrape the lens all up.

4.When it gets warm enough the factory seal will let loose.Once it does let it cool down.

5. Clean it ,sand it,ect whatever you feel will make it clearer. Dont forget to scrape any dried up old factory sealant off around the lens and the housing.

6.While your at it tape off the mirror like reflector and paint the bottoms of them whatever color you like. kinda how they do the black headlights but whatever color your fond of.

7. Then when your done cleaning and painting them its back to the oven,only this time your gonna heat them up and press them back together.

8. Once you get them back together the best you can let them cool back to room temp.

9. Then hit the edges with a very small bead of clear silicone caulk...I used tub and tile silicone caulk as it is an adhesive and a silicone combined. I believe tub and tile is the brand of it,its a blue and white tube and i think it works the best.

I have had these on my car for almost 2 years and havent had any
condensation issues....Thanks for reading..
Good Luck i hope this helps you guys out......
click links below to see pics
I found these on my womans camera hope they help...ill try to get some real close up ones later...........
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Nice write up, i just did the outsides of mine a few days ago and realized that the insides were nasty too, and was about to just start prying the lenses off tomorrow, didnt think about baking them to release the bond, has anyone else done this? good? bad? please chime in

I dont know..........But i like your red hat....It go good wit your glasses.....Hahahaa!!!!!......... J/king....

Originally Posted by bigdawg15005

I assume no responsability if you screw up your headlights from not doing this properly !!!!!!

The lights get discolored on the inside to. Which im sure you guys know. There may be a write up on this but i dont know because i didnt search it.. But my point is,

1. Disasemble the light, remove all bulbs ect., all but the headlight itself. This also works for the corners.

2. Bake them in the oven for like a min or so on like 275-300 preheated temp. Keep checking on them and leave in longer as nessesary, but you dont want to melt them, so dont walk away from them while they are in there...

3. Keep trying to pull the lens off of it.You may also want to have a small flat screw driver handy to get it started. Be gentle you also dont want to scrape the lens all up.

4.When it gets warm enough the factory seal will let loose.Once it does let it cool down.

5. Clean it ,sand it,ect whatever you feel will make it clearer.

6.While your at it tape off the mirror like reflector and paint the bottoms of them whatever color you like. kinda how they do the black headlights but whatever color your fond of.

7. Then when your done cleaning and painting them its back to the oven,only this time your gonna heat them up and press them back together.

8. Once you get them back together the best you can let them cool back to room temp.

9. Then hit the edges with a very small bead of clear silicone caulk...I used tub and tile silicone caulk as it is an adhesive and a silicone combined. I believe tub and tile is the brand of it,its a blue and white tube and i think it works the best.

I have had these on my car for almost 2 years and havent had any
condensation issues....Thanks for reading..
Good Luck i hope this helps you guys out......

I followed this a couple days ago and it went well, i used rtv clear 66br i do believe, it has a temp rating -75 to 460 f, the only think i can recommend that wasnt mentioned in this is to scrape between the lens and the body with a razor blade, cleaned out a bunch of the original sealant and made it easier to pry them apart.

Very good write up. Props OP.

Originally Posted by Skeeve

I followed this a couple days ago and it went well, i used rtv clear 66br i do believe, it has a temp rating -75 to 460 f, the only think i can recommend that wasnt mentioned in this is to scrape between the lens and the body with a razor blade, cleaned out a bunch of the original sealant and made it easier to pry them apart.

Dang i knew i was forgetting somthing. Yea i scraped that dried up sheeot out to.But for the most part most of it stayed in there or wouldnt scrape out..for people who havent done it when you do youll know what we r talking about...and when i reheated it the lens restuck in it so i just hit it with a tiny bead of that tub n tile to make sure it stayed and sealed you know lol.....

I might try this, the inside of my headlights have gotten water spots in them. Good way to reseal these cheapos from ebay.

Do u have any pics to show how they turned out.