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HID bulbs burned my headlight inside!


Justin
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Both my HID full beam bulbs have gone or don't work at least. I haven't needed to change them as the main beam is fine and I don't do much night driving in the Supe. Today I took one light out as it has steamed up from water ingress somehow so I need to reseal something no doubt. Anyway when I looked inside where the full beam cone is the silver reflective paint had all melted and burned away to the base yellowy plastic. Bummer.

 

By the way is it ok to stick Glass headlights in the oven like you can the plastic ones? I want to get the glue all goey again so that I can reseal it.

 

Cheers

Justin

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When I modded my headlights, I got my mate to spray the insides with the same paint he uses to spray engines (In satin black), I didn't have a single issue with it...

 

Of course I only had them on for a couple of weeks before I smashed the car up but I'm sure they'd have been fine, even with HIDs :)

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