Help! Removing waterspots from inside headlight?

[Daven]

I was restoring my headlights and forgot to make sure to not get water inside. I drained what I could out and dried to blowdry it but when it dried they now have waterspots on the inside of the lense. Really a pissoff since I finally got the lense crystal clear :/

Does anybody know of a way I can remove these? Maybe mixing amonia-free windex and trying the same thing? :/


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[Russosaur]

Put some distilled water on a small cloth and attach to something bendy and try to clean it off. Like a pipe cleaner, windex might work. Might aswell try.

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[Daven]

I don't know of anything I could use to reach around in there. These are 07 headlights. I tried with a butter knife and dry rag but I get no reach and it the one chamber is blocked for the headlight cover chrome thing (?). Maybe I need to deal with it :/ bit it's a lot of spots and I'm a perfectionist when it comes to my car


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[REDCRAPGP]

Well worse case stock replacements are like $80-100

[Russosaur]

If all else fails you could crack them open and clean them, or buy new ones. Bendy metal should be able to reach around but I haven't examined 04+ headlights up close before so idk.

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[Daven]

What am I looking at to take apart and reseal them? I was debating trying to switch out the reflectors to clear ones so maybe I could do that and clean then. But i have been worried about getting them to seal good again after


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[REDCRAPGP]

Baking them in the oven long enough to weaken the butyl and then prying them apart with a flathead or such.. If they're oem headlights don't bother they'll be permasealed which is a b**ch to get open and cleaned up.

[Daven]

Yep they're OEM. Tomorow I'm going to try jet dry and distilled water. Hopefully that works


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[Daven]

Ok so good news! Went and picked up some "Finish" brand rinse agent (the better on plastics one) and two 8L jugs of distilled water. Didn't measure out anything, but I sloshed around some rinse agent along with distilled water. Then rinsed it with the water until the bubbles were gone. Don't shake, the bubbles will never go away. Just slosh around and tip over to drain. Shook the light out the best I could, then hit it with the blow dryer with the holes pointed up to vent. It appears to have worked and the inside water spots are gone!

Again, the inside of my headlight wasn't dirty to begin with, just had hard water spots. So I wouldn't take this method to try and clean badly hazed headlights. But hopefully this can help somebody else who glitches out like me when cleaning their lights lol thanks for the response guys!


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