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Trdkamuri510 · 05-22-2005, 02:52 PM

damn my second set of clears are now fukked. i tried to do the diy i read somewhere of heating to 150 the oven and it just melted them. anyone been able to pull their clear corners apart??? HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!

SnakeyeS · 05-22-2005, 07:49 PM

No, it doesnt look easy. Why don't u just smoke them instead of blacking them out? Blacking them out is goin to make ur signals a lot less noticible.

CamNub · 05-22-2005, 07:52 PM

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Originally Posted by Trdkamuri510

damn my second set of clears are now fukked. i tried to do the diy i read somewhere of heating to 150 the oven and it just melted them. anyone been able to pull their clear corners apart??? HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!

How long did you do it?

dna59 · 05-22-2005, 07:52 PM

^^Yeah that was the route I was gonna take with my corners. I was gonna open them up and spray the inside, but a couple of people advised me not to. Something about the type of adhesive used to seal it.

Trdkamuri510 · 05-22-2005, 10:55 PM

resealing them isint the problem...

okay ebay clears use a cheap glue no matter what, because of that they come apart and leak etc. so its better to reseal them anyways. they very easily come apart around the back part, but where the corner meets the headlight its quite a bit harder.

reason for blacking it out is this:

yes my car is a 97, yes its an 01 front on there. black corner = match black headlights

MAKE SENSE?

yosh · 05-22-2005, 11:16 PM

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Originally Posted by Trdkamuri510

damn my second set of clears are now fukked. i tried to do the diy i read somewhere of heating to 150 the oven and it just melted them. anyone been able to pull their clear corners apart??? HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!

I've wanted to do this myself but I've heard it was pretty hard and now you've tried and screwed your corners. I'm starting to think there is no hope. I've been trying to find out who manufactures the headlights to see if they would make matching corners, but so far no luck.

***Eye8Pussies*** · 05-23-2005, 01:49 AM

what's 150 celcius??

when I did my headlights, I used 350F preheat.....and I don't forget to turn OFF the oven when you put the light in...?

dna59 · 05-23-2005, 07:50 AM

Would a dremel work? Or that's a bad idea?

terrastrife · 05-23-2005, 11:15 AM

man if you melted ya headlights you left them in the oven too long!

CamNub · 05-23-2005, 01:38 PM

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Originally Posted by dna59

Would a dremel work? Or that's a bad idea?

Bad Idea.

Oven works. He just didn't do it right. If oven didn't work it wouldn't be recommended by so many ppl.

And a lil o/t but how much was your front end conversion?