I wanna open my headlights, but I was told that you cant just open them with the method of sticking them into the oven. What is the way to open them up? Also I want to change my foglight bulbs, but my oil coolers are in the way. What do I have to do?

 

https://www.rx8club.com/showthread.php?t=36067.html
Here is how to change out the fog light bulb, ill try and find a headlight one late but in class sorry.

 

Headlights can be baked, it's the taillights that can't. I don't know at what temp or for how long off the top of my head, but there are some threads about halos or angel eyes that give that info.

 

Search for a screen name "shakeyourbrakes" he helped advise me on baking mine open I recently finished painting them black and later this winter I will bake them shut,,, heres mines so far.....
Bake open at 220dgrees for 8 min stints
Pry open and reapeat until open,,,,
I sprayed with High temp engine paint
High temp primer, higher temp semi gloss
Let paint set for recomended time (8-10) days
Reassemble and bake shut...

 

yea i def have plenty of threads on baking the headlights...follow those directions above theyve been tested many times by me. PM me if you need help

 

 

Thanks everyone for your help, and Rotr8 do you really have to leave the headlights for 8-10 days. Ill have nothing to drive.

 

overnight works fine..make sure not to seal them too quick though, the paint fumes create a mist on the inside of the lens, so you have to wetsand and refinish the plastic...trust me i had to do it when i left the paint for 4 hours to dry then sealed them like an idiot

 

O ok thanks. Well does anyone know how to open the tail lights?

 

I bought two sets of Ebay and cut them both open then frankenstien them together, baking doesnt work the lense is ultrasonically welded together with a chemical bond

 

Rotr8 What exactly did you do? Do the lights look cut up? Any pics of the install and progress of the work done? Sorry to be a pain, I just dont wanna screw it up.

 

dont have any pics, but on one set I used a knife edge to pry the clear shell off once I broke through teh lense, and on the other set I took a dremel and cut away the black plastic. In the end I had one good set of just the lense caps and one good set of the plastic housings, I still havent epoxied them together yet but will be painting them just like the headlights

 

wow i had that exact idea of cutting up two sets of tails, but i've never been willing to try it. that's awesome man. good luck!

those headlights are looking pretty clean.

 

Thanks Ngo.....

the taillights are gonna be low profile too,,,,, for some reason I never felt the same about the strakes in the tailights as I did in the headlights, so Im cutting them out and filling the holes. After that painting all silver components the same black that I used in the headlights....

 

Ok so I have some sort of crap build up on the inside of my headlights. I am not running therisk of baking them just to clean them.

I was wondering could I make some sort of tool to clean the inside through the holes where the bulbs were. If so could i just use some windex in there or some sort of non streak stuff??