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Post subject: To People Who Have Opened Head/Tail Lights

Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2008 4:07 pm

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To anyone who has opened up and resealed their head/tail lights, how did you clean out the original glue? i tried just scraping it out but its going to take me about 4 months to finish it at this rate!! :lol:

any hints on how to do it? or just heat it back up and do it like that?

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Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2008 4:13 pm

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I just reheated it, and jammed it back together.

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Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2008 8:32 pm

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proly not a bad idea, but i might have greif... i dont have an oven! :lol:

i used boiling water to get it open in the first place. ha ha. i might see how we go.

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Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2008 10:22 pm

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either use a hair dryer, or if that does not work use wax and grease remover. maybe a 'hot devil' soldering gun/ mini blowtorch.

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Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2008 10:44 pm

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Search for 'MAVS19' threads and have a read.
There wasn't anything he didn't know about car external lighting.

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Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2008 10:50 pm

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And if you come across them, be sure to post up here, as I've got an idea floating around for tail light mods which I have not seen done yet.

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Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2008 12:16 am

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I just reheated it, and jammed it back together.

That's what I did for my EL's LED taillights.

oven, sharp hobby knife, smallish flat blade screw driver, and burnt fingers.

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Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2008 11:10 pm

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yeah mavs was a gun, i loved his HID thread

i looked back through some of his old stuff and found he seems to just do what you guys suggested and heat it up and jam it back together, so thats cool, i can do that.

only problem is i re-read his HID thread, and now i have started conspiring plans to retrofit BMW HID projectors into the front end!! :lol:

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Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2008 11:22 pm

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Yeah, it's one of the more dangerous (to the wallet) threads on here.

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Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2008 12:04 am

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yup, i hadnt even finished and i *cough* stumbled on these :lol:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Hella-Ph ... 0300301109

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