any recommendations on seperating the tailight lense from the assembly? I want to do some work inside....I know for the front you can bake it

what temp do you bake?

the back has LEDs built in...I'm thinking those will blow am I right?

how about a heat gun or solvent?

Help please thanks!

 

goodluck. only advice I can give is to checkout the wrx's board. Here's one thread I found.

 

thanks adrian, always helpful

 

I've wondered the same thing. Hopefully the keyhole part isn't too tricky either...

 

i'm going to try a hat gun first then bake

 

i've tried heat gun already, it didn't work at all, it melt my lense too.

 

thanks bud...even a 200 degree setting?

I'm going to check the heat tolerance of an led...first...if it works at (200F baking) then I'll bake the lense

 

I'd bake if the LEDs can tolerate it

 

I'm researching that now online...not much info

 

this is an inference not direct info but LEDs are usually a plastic or resin that needs to be heated and melted into a mold during creation...so I'm going to guess it is ok but I'll reasearch a bit more to be safe

 

Buy a taillight off ebay and test it there first. I'd be willing to pitch in on a test just to see if it's viable.

 

https://www.rx8club.com/showthread.p...9&page=6&pp=15

 

I just melted a taillight by baking at 225 for 20 min. Even after melting I still couldn't get the lens removed from the housing so don't try it.

 

I hope this was a test tailight

damn mazda on this one

 

No it wasn't a test light doh! I had a WRX before and did the headlight baking many times with no issues. So I had condensation in my taillight took it off and saw there was water in there. Figured it'd be a good time to try to seperate the lights and paint them like i've always wanted to. Now I'm taillightless.....

 

I didn't want to start a new thread so I resuscitated this topic. Anywho I found this on ebay. I don't know if Truemagellen, or anyone else for that matter, had any success opening/painting the taillights? Has anyone tried this product?


http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eB...ayphotohosting

 

yes someone did paint the lense seemed to turn out well

I was trying to paint the insides

baking was virtually impossible I gave up pretty much

 

So, no one has tried this film product? I think it is a cheap alternative to buying an extra set of tailights, should you f-them up. This film can be removed if it is unsightly. When I get some extra skrill I will buy a roll.

 

You could check the Mazda 6 owner's manual, my friend (a 6 owner) said it contains instruction on how to bake the thing after disassembling.