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"Milky" (jordanmielke) 01/02/2015 at 09:45 • Filed to: Crossfire, Chrylser, Headlight, DIY, Fix

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Dafuq is wrong with my headlight? Went to a car wash 2 days ago and I got moisture in the left headlight …. shoulda just left the car dirty.

Has anyone here fixed (re-sealed?) their headlights? After a quick look on ebay headlights are $400-$600, so yea, Id rather not do that. The video below shows a ghetto-fab solution imo, but if it works, fuck it.

Any advice would be much appreciated.

Rico > Milky 01/02/2015 at 09:50

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Maybe you can find a used headlight either for sale on a forum or at a junkyard? Basically it's either the seals around the headlight or there is a small hole/crack you aren't seeing that's allowing condensation. Might suck but the solution above might be your only option. Pop your hood and check the rubber seals that you can see.

Nibby > Milky 01/02/2015 at 09:50

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Your headlight is on its period.

jkm7680 > Milky 01/02/2015 at 09:51

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Drilling a hole in it is the only solution that I can think of.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Milky 01/02/2015 at 09:51

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inb4 blinker fluid joke.

Milky > Rico 01/02/2015 at 09:55

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Good call, at the very least I'll take it out sometime this weekend and try to at least see the problem.

Milky > jkm7680 01/02/2015 at 09:58

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Why would I do that!?

Milky > Nibby 01/02/2015 at 09:58

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Instead of once a month its once a decade.

Milky > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 01/02/2015 at 09:59

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Damnit ….. someone is going to ...

jkm7680 > Milky 01/02/2015 at 10:01

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Let some of the moisture out I guess? Sorta like drilling holes in people's heads to let the evil spirits out.

jariten1781 > Milky 01/02/2015 at 10:04

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Drill a hole and the entrapped moisture vents to atmosphere. You won't get the fogging anymore. BRZ/FRS owners have been doing it with their tail lights since new.

Milky > jariten1781 01/02/2015 at 10:09

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Really thats a solution? Seems counterproductive but shit, I'll google it.

Milky > jkm7680 01/02/2015 at 10:09

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10/10 logic, will do.

Rico > jariten1781 01/02/2015 at 10:21

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Why would a brand new car like the BRZ not have properly sealed tail lights?

AutoSavant > Milky 01/02/2015 at 10:32

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Pulling the nose off my GTO tomorrow so I can remove and re-seal the headlights. I'm going to separate the lights in the oven, clean everything up, then seal them with flowable silicone. Hopefully that will keep them from being the fishbowls they are now. The headlights for this thing are 500 bucks a piece!

jariten1781 > Rico 01/02/2015 at 10:34

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Shitty parts quality. In the beginning you could walk the lots and spot ones with foggy tails. I don't know if it's gotten better or not.

Lots of threads on the forums about it...here's one with 43 pages of discussion:

http://www.ft86club.com/forums/showthr…

Rico > jariten1781 01/02/2015 at 10:42

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That is really crappy of Toyota and Subaru.

KusabiSensei - Captain of the Toronto Maple Leafs > Milky 01/02/2015 at 10:49

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Seals are shot. Shooting seals is bad, m'kay?

Milky > AutoSavant 01/02/2015 at 10:53

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You should definitely post your results to Oppo, at least one person here will be interested in how that ends up.

Milky > KusabiSensei - Captain of the Toronto Maple Leafs 01/02/2015 at 10:55

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I cannot into understandings.

Is "shooting seals" what the guy in the video did?

KusabiSensei - Captain of the Toronto Maple Leafs > Milky 01/02/2015 at 10:59

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Probably.

You could also bake the headlight, and that should soften the adhesive enough to be able to pry the lens away and rework the seals, and then bake again, and then there will be cake.

#BakedSeals

Milky > KusabiSensei - Captain of the Toronto Maple Leafs 01/02/2015 at 11:09

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I'm more of a grilled seal, man myself. But will look into.

JQJ213- Now With An Extra Cylinder! > Milky 01/02/2015 at 12:22

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You may be best off just going to a pick n pull yard. Mine had a Crossfire like a month ago and it'd be like $30 for a headlight!

I have heard that drilling a little hole in it may help but I couldn't bring myself to doing that

Milky > JQJ213- Now With An Extra Cylinder! 01/02/2015 at 12:35

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Damn, didn't think it would be that cheap …. will have to look into that then.

But yea, drilling will be a last resort.

JQJ213- Now With An Extra Cylinder! > Milky 01/02/2015 at 13:08

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Obviously your results may vary but at my yard I paid $50 for a new big light for our 07 Pilot and $30 for the V70

Milky > JQJ213- Now With An Extra Cylinder! 01/02/2015 at 13:21

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Ohh yea, different place different price.

But its still nice knowing the relative cheap price, so thanks!

You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much > Milky 01/02/2015 at 13:30

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Before you drill a hole look for a small round "sticker" that some headlights have on the back or bottom of the casing. That sticker is a Gore-Tex membrane that covers a vent hole. There is a chance that peeled off or cracked allowing water into the headlight assembly.

Milky > You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much 01/02/2015 at 14:03

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That is exactly the kind of information I was hoping to get.

Thanks & will do!

If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent > Milky 01/02/2015 at 15:08

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If you do re-seal it, do the job in a room that's had a de-humidifier running, otherwise you'll just be sealing in moist air and the problem won't go away. Maybe take the lens off completely and leave the assembly in the dry room overnight before doing it, just to be absolutely sure.

Long Live the Longdoor > Milky 01/02/2015 at 15:15

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You could always talk out the headlight and take a hairdryer to the inside of the light for 10-15 minutes and then get some silicone or something similar to seal around the outsides of the light. Should get ride of the moisture and reseal everything :)

Milky > If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent 01/02/2015 at 15:32

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I do think I'm going to try resealing it first. That sounds like a good tip, hair dryer, makes so much sense.

Milky > Long Live the Longdoor 01/05/2015 at 10:56

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Don't know how I missed this comment, but I think thats what I'm going to do!

I'll bring it in the shop sometime this weekend and work on it.

Long Live the Longdoor > Milky 01/05/2015 at 11:01

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Good luck, let me know how it goes :)

jdrgoat - Ponticrack? > AutoSavant 01/06/2015 at 19:58

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Have you checked the condition of the plastic where the headlights mount yet? I'm pretty sure the GTOs are known to have cheap plastic that deteriorates over time. I haven't looked closely at mine, but I think I did notice time was having its way with them out of the corner of my eye.

AutoSavant > jdrgoat - Ponticrack? 01/08/2015 at 15:59

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Yes. This is the second time I'm fixing these things. The first time I had to fill some large holes in the plastic under the mounting tabs with epoxy. I used real window sealant to reseal them that time. This time I'm using flowable silicon. Hopefully I'll get to it this weekend.