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Altaaf Sharif
Tinkerer
QLD
TT

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Reg: 07-2006

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Sunday, September 10, 2006 - 09:29 pm, by:  Altaaf Sharif (Sharif_dee801) Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

I have taken the lights off my car and I am genuinely waaay to busy to do it myself and would rather pay someone.

Its easy to do yet time consuming and unfortunately time is money.

Anybody know of any workshops/mechanics etc who may do this in Brisbane.
Adam Lonergan
TryHard
Victoria
UZZ32

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Monday, September 11, 2006 - 06:53 am, by:  Adam Lonergan (Alchemistal) Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

S&LC do them in Melbourne.
Justin Cook
DieHard
QLD
JZZ30 TT

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Monday, September 11, 2006 - 08:54 am, by:  Justin Cook (Justin) Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Anyone know how much they charge for this?
Altaaf Sharif
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TT

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Monday, September 11, 2006 - 09:11 am, by:  Altaaf Sharif (Sharif_dee801) Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Man Melbourne haha !!

This is very frustrating I have taken the headlights to about 3 Auto electricians and 3 Smash repairs/body works places and everybody said buy new ones.

Thats BS I need these lights cleaned !!

Id be interested if S&LC are reasonably priced, cause then you would have to factor in freight both ways for those big headlights.

Worst comes to worst I will do it myself cause I cannot drive this car without getting pulled over, as its so foggy.

Im keen if someone could tell me approx how long to put them into the oven and at what temperature it would help immnesely.

Thanks
Justin Cook
DieHard
QLD
JZZ30 TT

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Monday, September 11, 2006 - 09:20 am, by:  Justin Cook (Justin) Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Mate my Dad is a courier. If they are reasonably priced, we can send ours together. Just drop them over and I will post with mine. Will cost $20 for the 4 only. So it will just be clean and postage back.
Adam Lonergan
TryHard
Victoria
UZZ32

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Monday, September 11, 2006 - 09:29 am, by:  Adam Lonergan (Alchemistal) Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

I spoke with them last month about it and all I was told is that they are reasonable as one of the guy's sons does it in his spare time. I saw a few re-sealed ones on the shelf so maybe they would be interested in doing an exchange service.
Altaaf Sharif
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QLD
TT

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Monday, September 11, 2006 - 09:51 am, by:  Altaaf Sharif (Sharif_dee801) Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

See I want mine with the orange indicator cap removed for that nice sleek finish then just use those new Phillips silver bulbs that flash orange.

I wonder if they remove them and do that on the exchange ?

Thanks for the Offer Justin, might have some better news, the previous owner of my car always had everything done by a workshop in Birkdale (not sure of the name) and he quoted him approx $60 to clean out each headlight.

I think thats a good price and I will chase him up to get the name and contact details of the guy, will keep you guys posted
Justin Cook
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QLD
JZZ30 TT

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Monday, September 11, 2006 - 09:59 am, by:  Justin Cook (Justin) Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Mate whats his number? For that price, tell him he has four to do. I am after you!
Altaaf Sharif
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QLD
TT

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Monday, September 11, 2006 - 10:52 am, by:  Altaaf Sharif (Sharif_dee801) Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Ok that was a mistake $60 to remove each headlight off the car.

LOL
Matthew Sharpe
Goo Roo
North Island
JZZ31

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Monday, September 11, 2006 - 10:54 am, by:  Matthew Sharpe (Madmatt) Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Altaaf, there are loads of threads on this...

http://soarercentral.com/sc-forum/messages/283/58883.html

just one of many. Very easy job to do, doesn't take very long to get them apart though polishing itself is quite time consuming.
Matthew Sharpe
Goo Roo
North Island
JZZ31

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Monday, September 11, 2006 - 10:55 am, by:  Matthew Sharpe (Madmatt) Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

$60 to remove the headlights? WTF? It takes about 5 minutes per side!
Justin Cook
DieHard
QLD
JZZ30 TT

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Monday, September 11, 2006 - 11:27 am, by:  Justin Cook (Justin) Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

HAHAHAHA what a joke. Altaaf I will take them off for you for $50 each :-) hehehe. That's some good profit right there.

I can get my headlights and front bar off the car in 22mins. Yes I timed it :-)
Daniel Lee
DieHard
Victoria
Soarer GT Limited UZZ31 V8

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Monday, September 11, 2006 - 11:34 am, by:  Daniel Lee (Son_gokou) Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Also Melbourne Exchange can clean out and re-seal headlights too:

Melbourne Headlight Exchange Pty Ltd
Unit 2/ 130 Bridge Rd Keysborough 3173
(03) 9706 3922
Altaaf Sharif
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Monday, September 11, 2006 - 01:28 pm, by:  Altaaf Sharif (Sharif_dee801) Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Ok I have started to do this myself this morning. Got headlights off in about 10 mins for both sides piss easy.

REALLY BAD NEWS

After I did the oven bit and pryed em apart it was all good.

I went down to my local Mitre 10 to get something that would help remove all that goo.

The salesman there advised me to use Acetone, I explicitly checked with him if it would be safe to use on plastic, he said it would be fine.

Then I get home and start applying it to the goo, does not work at all, useless stuff then I notice it drip down on my headlight lens and its melting away my plastic.

I quickly wipe it up using a cloth and it has left a massive stain on the lens it has discoloured and affected the texture of the plastic and will not come out using water, turps or anything.

Its permanently messed the plastic, now I been quoted $110 to buff the whole thing down and polish it up to get it looking like new.

Now this is where I went back to Mitre 10 furious, the guy was apologising so much that he did a mistake and that acetone is corrosive to plastic.

Spoke to manager too, he wasn't willing to budge and offer some compensation for it, now I have put in a complaint to Mitre 10 head office which it is now being investigated.

Im so demoralised now, I was looking forward to driving my car on the weekend now I cant till the lights are fixed and back in.

Just so unhappy right now :-( last time I ever do anything myself.
Peter Nitschke
JunkFilterer
South Australia
GT4.0 V8

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Monday, September 11, 2006 - 02:08 pm, by:  Peter Nitschke (Pen) Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

While this doesn't help you right now, it says in the tutorial to use Mineral Turpentine to remove the old goo.

http://soarercentral.com/sc-forum/messages/51/100.html?1098346231
Benjamin Burgess
DieHard
NSW
Toyota Soarer GT-TL

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Monday, September 11, 2006 - 02:17 pm, by:  Benjamin Burgess (Jampac) Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Why did you try to remove the goo? You use oven to pry headlight open, it cools down and hardens again, then once you got the plastic lens all clear using 2000 wet/dry sand paper and a cut of polish you stick it in the oven again and get it soft and put it back together again. No acetone, or any crap like that required.

The last owner of my soarer tried to do this and put this in the lights that was so hard to get off, even oven didn't soften it. Even put silicon sealer on one of the lights. I spent atleast 10 hours fixing up the lights after all that.

/me throws hands up in the air and screams "WHYYYYYY..."

Also the time to remove the lights depends on who in japan or australia removed the lights before you as I found on my one the previous owner/owners hadn't put in the really hard screws that you need to remove the inner wheel guard to get to, so yeah it took 5 minutes.
Altaaf Sharif
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QLD
TT

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Monday, September 11, 2006 - 02:58 pm, by:  Altaaf Sharif (Sharif_dee801) Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

I wanted to remove all the goo and put new Selly's D mastic as in the tutorials, seal it up like new so I dont need to touch it for another 15 years.
Benjamin Burgess
DieHard
NSW
Toyota Soarer GT-TL

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Monday, September 11, 2006 - 03:22 pm, by:  Benjamin Burgess (Jampac) Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

My ones have been using the same out of the factory for 15 years, with a clean up about a 20 months ago using same goo, just removed all the other the previous owner put on extra as he didn't know about the oven trick, and I've got none of that condensation crap you see on lots of soarers after 20 months.

So all I did was heat up, split apart, sand inside and out, polish, buff, heat up and stick back together again. Add extra step for removing all the previous owners screw ups.

Its quiet an easy job when you have a standard headlight.
Daniel Trivuncevic
TryHard
NSW
TT

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Monday, September 11, 2006 - 05:45 pm, by:  Daniel Trivuncevic (Madm0nk) Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

your dads a courier justin?!..then why did i organise one to get my quarter!! haha...ya punk :P!! haha
Justin Cook
DieHard
QLD
JZZ30 TT

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Monday, September 11, 2006 - 07:08 pm, by:  Justin Cook (Justin) Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Hahaha mate :-) because they only do up to 25kg. It was like 30 or so. Otherwise I would have send it straight to you!
Vinh Bui
DieHard
NSW
94 UZZ31 (V8) / 96 JZZ30 (TT)

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Monday, September 11, 2006 - 07:27 pm, by:  Vinh Bui (Hyudsjk) Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Altaaf: like Benjamin said, I've never had any fogging up of my headlights for 15 months now using the standard goo. If you do it right, you won't experience any problems at all.
I kept taking the headlight out of the oven at intervals and tried to pry it open. This took me a bit longer to finish the job, but I just wanted to make sure none of the plastic was gonna melt.
Aaron Mead
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NT
TT

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Monday, September 11, 2006 - 08:04 pm, by:  Aaron Mead (Aaron) Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Altaaf, use Meguiars plastic polish and a buffer or your elbow grease to remove the blemish.
Altaaf Sharif
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QLD
TT

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Wednesday, September 13, 2006 - 01:09 pm, by:  Altaaf Sharif (Sharif_dee801) Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

OHH GOOD NEWS !!!!

GT GLASS TECHNOLOGY
T: 3390 7704
M: 0413 444 787

Ask for Scott, tell him Altaaf with the DEE801 Soarer sent ya.

This guy charges $88 for a clean and reseal or $110 for a full clean, reseal & polish.

I got the $110 option done to both my headlights, they came out looking BRAND NEW, I mean BRAND new.

Call him on his mobile tell him your address and he picks it up from your house then delivers it the very next day.

Even my Acetone damaged headlight came out shcmick but you can stil see where the plastic has been eaten away by Acetone.

He was nice enough to charge me only for one headlight since the damaged one did not come out like new.

Ask him to remove the orange indicator cap inside the assembly looks so much better !!

Nothing but praise for this guy, quick 1 day turn around and its a bit pricey but worth it !!
Sam Koek
TryHard
VICTORIA
2.5GT-T Manual

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Wednesday, September 13, 2006 - 07:45 pm, by:  Sam Koek (Samkoek) Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

take a photo of your 'new headlight' and let us see how good it is please!!
Justin Camilleri
TryHard
QLD
Had a 85 MZ10, 92 TT, Now 91 TT

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Wednesday, September 13, 2006 - 08:50 pm, by:  Justin Camilleri (Just) Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Yeah! You've got me excited...

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