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ok I've done many searches on this but have found nothing that I was looking for...only pictures...so my question is

How do you smoke the stock headlights? I'm not talking about painting them, just putting them in the oven and baking them...will that work well? If so, where is the DIY for this? I have no luck finding it...please respond quick cause I wanna do it while at my friend's place.

 
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here is the DIY:


preheat the oven to 450 degrees...
allow heat to settle for 10 minutes...

get a pinch of pepper and sprinkle some over the headlights
carefully put the headlight in the oven

let the headlight cook for thirty minutes...

while the headlight is cooking make yourself a cool iced tea...

after thirty minutes, take the headlight out, and it's ready to serve.

-enjoy your meal!


















j/k... just clear them!

 
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thnx for useless info

 
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Do you mean clearing them?

All I did was put them in the oven for a few min to soften up the seal arounf the housings, then pried them apart, took out all the old sealant, took the amber insert, paint them, ect ..... and then put the two parts of the housing together and seal with some water proof caulking and then your done.

It takes a bit of time and some patience but is well worth it.

Good Luck, hope it helps.


Crashoveride

 
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ok cool, thnx for the info...I'll do that very soon

 
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i heated mine with a blow dryer, and used a knife to cut the silicone apart. easy, but takes time.

 
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ALWAYS WONDERED WHAT THE OVEN SETTING WERE. NICE NICE

 
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Okay, here is the real way:

Turn on over to 200 degrees F, and immediately put lights inside. DO NOT preheat, or the headlights may crack from heat stress. Check on them every few minutes to see if they can be pulled apart.

You probably need thermal gloves, since they will be hot. It's done when you can pull them apart with just your hands.

Same applies for re-sealing them when you're done. Stick both halves back in, heat up the goo, and smush back together.

Oh and put a baking sheet or something so goo doesn't drip all over the oven. Sedan goo gets really liquidy!

 
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thermal gloves = oven mitts.

also, a hair dryer works just fine if you don't feel like sticking it in an oven; at least for the black tar from coupes

 
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If u have a coupe, don't even bother baking them because u can just rip them open with abit of force.... i have a sedan and in order to take them apart, i had to bake them cuz the silicon is much harder. The mounting point actually got melted and does not align with the brackets after in baked them in the oven, theres a risk in doin that

 
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GREATTTTTT. THESE R THE KIND OF THINGS I DON'T WANT HAPPENING.

 
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ok I'm not too excited about the oven thing, but I'm thinking about the hair dryer, since it coupe goo and weaker? shall I say...oh what kind of silicone should I get to reseal them b/c I'm afraid of it fogging up...preferrably I want the same color that was on the headlights in the first place of course, so where do I get the silicone and how many layers should I add back on there? thnx for the helpful infos so far.

 
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personally, i didn't like the oven idea either. seemed a bit risky, so i used a hair dryer and knife. i think it's RTC or RYC (forgot the name) black silicone in a tube. it'll take about a tube and a half to do it. if you seal them up good, they won't fog up at all. just make sure to use a high heat paint. it's a rather easy job, but make sure you have quite a bit of extra time to do it right. i posted pics of mine in the DIY headlight thread..

 
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Even if the headlights are sealed well, they will still fog. Here in Illinois where it's humid sometimes, every car's headlights get foggy. The only way not to would be to seal the holes for the other signal and parking lights. Moisture can still get in otherwise.

 
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Alright I did the DIY on the headlights, it wasn't hard but it was sure as hell time consuming...but it was well worth it! Thnx for the info on baking the headlights, or else it would've took me longer to get them apart...here's a pic of them

Before:

 
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After:

 
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Wow, good job with painting. Looks really nice.

 
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dont forget to baste it

 
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if i take out the amber plate in the headlight will i ever get humidity in the head light. how long does the whole procss take. from when you take the bumper off to the final step. i saw the instructions. is it actually easy

 
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it takes a few days because the headlights need to sit out for the silicone to dry. if you seal it up well, it shouldn't fog up at all. mine didn't the first time when i cleared them, but they did this time when i painted them because i didn't use enough seal. grrr.. gotta fix em now!

 
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took me bout 9 hours from taking the bumper off to putting back everything, I kept the stock goo and applied one more layer of silicone II (clear) on there and just popped the headlights back on, I couldn't wait a couple of days cause I drive my car daily, but by the time I got home from my friend's place...(30 mins from applying the clear silicone) it had already dried up due to the heat from the engine.