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Is there a way to fix tail lights after they have been melted?
#21
heat + direct sun light -many cars without covers have the same thing happen. although it may speed up
the process if it is making them hotter, which i'm not quite sure i believe since i've heard of just as many people
without covers having the same problem. so i think it just depends on how much time your car spends in the sun.
the process if it is making them hotter, which i'm not quite sure i believe since i've heard of just as many people
without covers having the same problem. so i think it just depends on how much time your car spends in the sun.
#22
Its mostly from the inside, those brake bulbs get HOT
#23
^yeah it could be from the inside. i just know that it's not only from having covers.
WELL, I TOOK ONE FOR THE TEAM. it wasn't pretty, and it left me with a light for the trash can. but i tried.
ill post up pictures in a little bit
WELL, I TOOK ONE FOR THE TEAM. it wasn't pretty, and it left me with a light for the trash can. but i tried.
ill post up pictures in a little bit
#24
#25
If it was heat from the bulbs inside you'd think older cars with more miles would be more prone to it. But my car is a 98 with 138k miles and neither of them are melted at all
hlaalu, maybe what you could do is do a light VHT tinting. Not enough to go totally black (or you'd still get trouble from the police) but just to darken them. That's what I did on my car (can see it in my sig pic). Darker, but still can see the white, yellow, and red. Did it this past summer and no trouble yet. Need wetsanded to get more glossy looking but I have no idea how to do it and don't want to mess them up.
hlaalu, maybe what you could do is do a light VHT tinting. Not enough to go totally black (or you'd still get trouble from the police) but just to darken them. That's what I did on my car (can see it in my sig pic). Darker, but still can see the white, yellow, and red. Did it this past summer and no trouble yet. Need wetsanded to get more glossy looking but I have no idea how to do it and don't want to mess them up.
#26
My passenger side looked melted when I bought it. Right now I have covers over them, but I am thinking of buying aftermarket tail lights, just not sure which ones would look good on a pewter car.
#27
If it was heat from the bulbs inside you'd think older cars with more miles would be more prone to it. But my car is a 98 with 138k miles and neither of them are melted at all
hlaalu, maybe what you could do is do a light VHT tinting. Not enough to go totally black (or you'd still get trouble from the police) but just to darken them. That's what I did on my car (can see it in my sig pic). Darker, but still can see the white, yellow, and red. Did it this past summer and no trouble yet. Need wetsanded to get more glossy looking but I have no idea how to do it and don't want to mess them up.
hlaalu, maybe what you could do is do a light VHT tinting. Not enough to go totally black (or you'd still get trouble from the police) but just to darken them. That's what I did on my car (can see it in my sig pic). Darker, but still can see the white, yellow, and red. Did it this past summer and no trouble yet. Need wetsanded to get more glossy looking but I have no idea how to do it and don't want to mess them up.
And yeah I like that touch of tinting on the lights, looks real good
#28
A fair amount. Not sure about the first 105k miles on the car before I owned it (car has 138k now, I've put 32k since I got it a little over 2 years ago), but since then when I was in college I'd drive back to school from home on the weekends usually at night (1 hour trip) every or every other weekend. Drive to work with the lights on in the morning, and typically on the way back from work too this time of year (2 hours each day). So they are on a fair bit. During the winter, almost constantly because of weather.
#29
^^I think its mostly from driving in the sun and applying the brakes. This makes me a little paranoid about my tails that I bought recently, even though I am staying away from blackout covers. I am thinking of switching to SMD towers, but its pricey and I have to buy a flasher to keep cruise control working.
#30
^^I think its mostly from driving in the sun and applying the brakes. This makes me a little paranoid about my tails that I bought recently, even though I am staying away from blackout covers. I am thinking of switching to SMD towers, but its pricey and I have to buy a flasher to keep cruise control working.
I wouldn't be too worried about it honestly, seems that the majority of the melted lights I've seen have been either the LT1 style (seems they are more prone to it?) or lights that have had blackouts on them.
#31
My car sits outside all the time (I have no garage) so the tails are subjected to lots and lots of sunlight.
I wouldn't be too worried about it honestly, seems that the majority of the melted lights I've seen have been either the LT1 style (seems they are more prone to it?) or lights that have had blackouts on them.
I wouldn't be too worried about it honestly, seems that the majority of the melted lights I've seen have been either the LT1 style (seems they are more prone to it?) or lights that have had blackouts on them.
#33
I have a cracked LT1 T/A tailight and I was looking around at pep boys and found JB weld that according to them dries "Crystal Clear". I was going to try putting in on the crack kind of like doing a windshield repair. Then block sanding it to the countour of the light and polishing the mess out of it. Of course I was going to try this on a spare light before doing it to the one I need. And for $6 for the JB Weld I figured the idea was woth a shot.
I still havent done it though, but I figured I could share the idea anway.
I still havent done it though, but I figured I could share the idea anway.