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:tup: looking good bro

I gotta ask... what is this boiling water method? THAT sounds scary to me lol

lmao... i know it sounds retarded but it actually works....

anyways this is how it works lmao, you boil a **** load of water like maybe 2-3 gallons of water then dump all the hot water in a big ol bucket... not the tall buckets at home depot but like the short wide ones... so when you got all the water in there submerge your headlight, the lens part facing the water and leave it there until it fogs inside... when it fogs you know its hot enough now you can literally pull it apart because the glue is so soft :tup:

ive done this technique to cars usually with glass headlights :tup: when i accidentally cracked the glass headlight of my friend with my heat gun :shakes head: some guy told us use hot water because thats what he uses... i thought he was full of sh!t lol but he was actually right :tup:

These headlights are 1000.04$ OEM... so be a little careful.

per side..... lol

yup :tup: i knew that when i opened her lights up when she was only a month old or 2..... :roflpuke2: actually back then.. at the local stealership they qouted me $1500 per side lol so i knew i couldnt mess up

I'm sooo scared anyone in jersey wanna help lol

Trust me on this one. Pay a shop to to it. My headlight misadventure cost $900


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How much you think they are?

Good thread, I might be trying this.

I would still recommend against doing this yourself unless you are extremely "handy". It is extremely easy to mess your lights up beyond repair.

If I do do it I'll do it this way.:tup:

It shouldn't be if you do it the right way though, which I've found out we didn't. Temp was too high. Safer to go with lower temp and longer time in the oven. I think we were supposed to be around 200-210, but we were doing it at like 250. If we had it at the right temp, we wouldn't have had to put it in lens down.

For reference in case you think it's just me being a klutz (which I am) - a bunch of us in the Mid Atlantic forum thought it'd be a good idea to do this ourselves for fun. Of the 5 sets of headlights we attempted to mod only 1 set came out unscathed.
List of problems we encountered:
-Scorched & melted headlight lenses. It's VERY easy to melt the housings when you're trying to soften the sealant. The damage is very ugly, very visible, and cannot be repaired.
-Broken HID "clips". For some reason, the little metal clip thingy that holds the HID bracket in place is very fragile.
-Busted up HID bulbs
-Constantly running out of daylight. The process is long, time-consuming and messy as hell.