Clear Corners!

[Midgear]

I'm Currently working on headlight #2 (passenger side) to make the clear corners, so far so good, accidently broke a chrome tab on the driver side headlight (woops..) nothin a little super glue wouldnt fix, however..

Besides the build up on the outside of the lense, these headlights with the clear corners look groovy, I'll post pics as soon as i can find my digital camera..

Very east to do, just time consuming and you must be very careful, like they said.. these headlights dont come cheap.. (around 130 - 160 dollars per assembly) So make sure you dont break anything!

Oven is beeping at me, time to finish it up!

[ptrudel]

nice...get pics!

[Midgear]

Update:

I didn't have any silicon laying around so i figured i do what others did and just preserve the stock silicon already on the lights and heated it up to stick the assembly back together, and it seems to be holding!

The car looks sweet, I love it. I took pictures and i went to upload them to my computer and discovered that i dont have any software for my damn Camera! I'm downloading these right now, I should have pics up in the next 10 minutes.

Its about to rain here, so i guess ill see if the silicon holds up! :yahoo:

[jackal2000]

oh man. shoulda used new silicone......

[doubleN0alero]

oh man. shoulda used new silicone......

i agree, but i could NOT get my stock silicone back off, so i had to reuse it, but with a new layer ontop of it

[Midgear]

I get paid tomorrow, so if it rains and i get moisture in the headlights, i'll pop em apart and re-seal them, might be easy to do since i already pulled them apart.

I'm installing the software, pictures on the way! ^_^

[Midgear]

And the pictures of the finished lights, took me about 2 hours.

Now only if they were new lights O_o


http://memimage.cardomain.net/member_images/4/web/2416000-2416999/2416601_3_full.jpg

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In this picture you can see the junk on my lights that make them look "foggy".. no clue as how to get it off.. i scrubbed the crap out of it inside and out when the assembly was completely apart, to no avail.

http://memimage.cardomain.net/member_images/4/web/2416000-2416999/2416601_5_full.jpg

That up close image shows that i havent washed my car in a couple days.. wish those birds would quit targeting my car when they crap in mid flight.

Edit: Spelling..

[jackal2000]

looks good, but yea it is kinda foggy lookin. weird.

[steve-o]

yeah i siliconed the poop outta mine, and about the fog, i think its just from the suns harmful UV rays.

[alerocar01]

looks good. i have hear that both ways with silicon have worked with either using the old stuff or new stuff. i say always go new.

[billytheman1188]

when you have the headlight apart, how do u make it so shiny?? cause i have seen some of the pics of peoples corners and they are shiny, but the pics on here dont look like they are......do u just need to clean them good before u put it back together?

[Midgear]

The reason my headlights and corners arent as shiney as others is because of the fogging and build up of crap on the lenses, I either need to find a headlight cleaning kit (any idea on where to get this would be great).. or i need to just go get a whole new set of headlights, but i dont see that happening untill my headlights go completely out or it fogs up so bad they dont light up the road..

I used glass cleaner and a scrubby sponge and scrubbed the living crap out of the head lights, and it didnt even phase them.. The wierd part.. when the lenses were wet, they looked crystal clear, but as soon as they dry, they get that foggyness to them.. (Note that this isnt actual fog, no moisture is related to this, its build up on the lenses and i can't figure out what it is)

I can scratch at the lense with my finger nail and you can see the stuff coming off the lense, but id be scraping at them for the next two weeks if i did it that way.. I'm hoping to find a kit that can be used to clear these up because i dont feel like spending 300 dollars for new headlights :cry:


Anyhow, I love the clear corners.. Looking forward to doing other "do-it-yourself" projects on this alero! ^_^

[doubleN0alero]

yeah there was a part somewhere in that how-to about cleaning off all of the finger prints before you put it back together...but with your plastic being so foggy...dunno if that would have helped

[billytheman1188]

I just cleared my headlights tonight, i will take pics tomorrow or the day after. it looks awesome. took me 3 hours for both lights. but it was worth the time:coolio:

[robz02alero]

I used toothpast and polishing compound, lasted a couple months before I needed to do ity again, apply and remove just like wax

[billytheman1188]

What kind of bulbs do the people who have clear corners have in their turning signals......cause i took out the amber bulbs and put regular ones in.....but im tryin to find blue bulbs to go in where the clear corners are.....and the light right next to the clear corner.....but i cant find the bulbs anywhere.....anybody know where to find em?

[troyertrain]

yeah, that fogginess is oxidation from your lights. i dont know if it will turn yellow eventually, but in most cars it does....

[doubleN0alero]

What kind of bulbs do the people who have clear corners have in their turning signals......cause i took out the amber bulbs and put regular ones in.....but im tryin to find blue bulbs to go in where the clear corners are.....and the light right next to the clear corner.....but i cant find the bulbs anywhere.....anybody know where to find em?

silverstar 3157A

[shackney]

thats for the inner light what bout the cleared corner bulbs? i found some led bulbs that are clear and glow bright amber but they make my signals blink faster like a short or something. anybody have any ides what could be wrong? i think its my bulbs i put in and i need to find some blue tinted bulbs that glow amber

[AleroGX04]

the bulb for the corner is 194. got leds in mine, looks great.

[cavaliers60]

I got the LEDs in mine too... had no problems with it blinking faster...

[shackney]

ya i put a led bulb in it and my signals blink fast now? is it the bulb or is it a flasher goin out??

[burg03]

I am gonna do this mod one day

[mrmike]

my signals blink fast now? is it the bulb or is it a flasher goin out??
The led lights don't use as much power as a regular bulb so the car thinks that the bulb is burnt out, so it makes it flash really fast to let you know to change the bulb. Kinda fancy actually. You need to buy a resistor that attaches to the signal bulb wire that simulates the load of a regular bulb. You can get them from superbrightleds.com for a few bucks apiece. you'll need one for every 3157 type bulb you replace with an led bulb. BTW I replaced all my lights with leds, and it absolutely sucks for during the day, as in people won't be able to see you signal and the light looks pale and lame. At night they are nice but still not as bright as regular bulbs. The only way to do nice leds is to take apart the headlights and put in led panels. The bulb type leds are just too small to see clearly no matter how bright they are.

[TreeFrogg169]

I have seen some kits at Wally world that clame to take the haze of the outside of the headlights. I used a mild rubbing compound on mine and a couple coats of cleaning wax and they seem to be holding up good.