Sunday, September 03, 2006 - 08:32 pm, by: Samantha Hornby(Marla_singer)
Can do it yourself by placing headlights in a warm oven for a few minutes to melt the adhesive. Open, clean, reseal. However beware - many people have tried and failed at this mission.
I've helped out Stephen Hille do his, it worked out quite well in the end, but were a few dramas, you will spend like a good half a day doing it if not more, he started doing his around lunch time, went to him at 6pm to see how he's going, and we finished about 12 at night. You will need both a reliable oven, and a heatgun (or hairdryer, but might not be hot enough) and be careful when you heat the plastic up, you can make it go all too soft. We used a kitchen knife to pry it open, twice we've pierced through the plastic completely coz was too hot/soft. The worst thing is it cools down very quickly, and it sets hard after that again... it's a pain in the a$$ job to do, you gotta have patience and surgical precision hey I'd do it myself now that I've done it on somebody else's car, but I just can't be bothered and don't have half a day to spare nowadays...
Tuesday, September 05, 2006 - 12:46 am, by: Leon Wright(Techman)
I'd definitely be interested in the sharing of expertise. My drivers side headlight leaks. I've got a few electrical tools and meters and stuff a bit of a Hobby of mine, still sore from wiring up all the lights on my house mates ute :P
Like I said, all you need is a heat gun, an oven, and something for leverage to pry it open, like a knife. Plus a glue to put it back together. Don't need anything electrical, or solder anything guys. It's a really pain in the a$$ job, don't mean to put you off haha. Once that's open, you'll need to scrape all the hardened gue all off, preferably while hot too. And most importantly, don't ruin your light, very easy to put too much pressure on this thing and puncture the plastic thing. We were lucky that we heated it up again and moulded the thing back together, but I can imagine it can get much worse
Tuesday, September 05, 2006 - 03:37 pm, by: Leon Wright(Techman)
That wording looks a little disturbing. Sorry new coffee machine at work today, on a bit of a caffeine high!
Say get all the parts together for Blinky Dash repairs, someone work on pulling them out, who ever is good at that, I'll pull apart replace parts, maybe locate different coloured fluros for them, etc etc get a production line happening. I gotta do mine (none of the dash was working first thing this morning...), so it may motivate me to get my butt into gear :P
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I'd do it myself now that I've done it on somebody else's car, but I just can't be bothered and don't have half a day to spare nowadays...
