Yellow Headlight Reflector Removal

[hockey512546 10+ year member]

Anyone have a link to a tutorial showing how to remove the yellow reflector in the corner of a headlight?

Couldn't find anything

Do you open the headlight up at the glue seam, pull them out and glue it back?

Or is there a different way?

Thanks

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[GMCJimmyslt2000 10+ year member]

I don't know how to do it exactely but it involves baking them In the oven to remove the color.

 

[jdawg 5,000+ posts]

you put them in the oven to get the glue hot so you can pull the lens seperate from the back, you have the idea

 

[99grandprixGT 5,000+ posts]

just buy the ones with the clear reflector and call it a day. if they got them for your vehicle.

 

[GMCJimmyslt2000 10+ year member]

you put them in the oven to get the glue hot so you can pull the lens seperate from the back, you have the idea

I knew it involved baking them, just didn't no what that did.

Any1 have a detailed tutorial? I'm intereseted in doing it now.

 

[budahbuddy803 10+ year member]

I know there is one detailed tutorial somewhere that i have seen, but i cant find it now. You bake them at a fairly low temperature, just to heat the silicon. Use a flathead screwdriver or something similar to pry the front from the back(be careful i think that stuff will be hot) and then do your business and reseal with silicon. I saw the tutorial on the toyotaguy forum i believe and it was for someone who painted their headlights.

 

[jdawg 5,000+ posts]

I have known some guys that have done them but I dont know how long or what temp you bake them at, ill look around

 

[gotparts90 10+ year member]

low temp like 550

 

[budahbuddy803 10+ year member]

I have known some guys that have done them but I dont know how long or what temp you bake them at, ill look around

I do know that this person did not bake them longer than 5 or so minutes.

low temp like 550

really? I'm sorry i thought the guy did it on a low temperature for under 5 minutes. If i am wrong, which i very well maybe, i appologize i was just going on my memory which is not very good.

 

[AVSTANG02]

Do you open the headlight up at the glue seam, pull them out and glue it back??Thanks

Yes and make sure you seal them up good or they will fog up.

Don't bake them.

 

[jdawg 5,000+ posts]

low temp like 550

low is 550? Jesus christ, thats about as high as my oven goes, maybe you mean like 350?

 

[BobbyDD 10+ year member]

http://www.jlevisw.com/Bake.pdf

 

[gotparts90 10+ year member]

o my bad 525

 

[GMCJimmyslt2000 10+ year member]

Yes and make sure you seal them up good or they will fog up.
Don't bake them.

U have to bake them?! Ur dumb bro.

 

[Snwbrdr1 10+ year member]

haha I just sear mine and finish in a 350 oven being that you let them rest for 10 minutes before eating