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Old 06-19-2008, 09:27 PM
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Default Different brightness in tail lights.

the right tail of my formula seems way darker then the left. So I take it apart and there is a ton of water in it. I let it sit in the sun but it still looks darker. I think there might be mold or something on the lens. Is there anyway to clean them?? Can I safely take them apart? I dont want to have to replace the whole right taillight for it.
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Most of the time a replacement is in order. I have seen this serveral times on some of my cars. If its an lt1 there the worst...
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unfortunately, this is up there with crappy headlight gears. Pretty common on our cars. Coolformula is right, generally only way to fix it is to replace the light.

The darkness is from water sitting on the inside of the lamp and corroding away the reflective material on the lens.
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Time for a new housing. When I bought my car it had a dark tail light, no way to fix it.
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Any place you recomend to pick one up at? And what do they normally run?
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Ebay is where I got mine, spent about $100 for one taillight.




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