Headlights cloudy inside (replacement)
 

When they are off my headlights like fine & clear but when they are on (sidelights or full beam) it looks a little cloudy on the inside, almost like the bulbs are scorching the plastic somehow, not bad enough to do anything just yet but im guessing it is only going to get worse, has anyone had any joy with something like this.......


https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/for-2008-...25.m3641.l6368

Too expensive for one. Should be about 60-70e for one side.

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can you change them though ? I assumed it was a sealed unit, has anyone had any luck putting new ones on ??

Yes you can remove them. Need to cut the old lenses off. I used a dremel. Changed lenses and painted the internals and added a new led halo while I had them out. Worth doing it!

5Xtheproblems,

Pics Please

Very interested myself, so have been looking at other's approach to headlight refresh.

See his (5Xtheproblems) post with pics here: https://xoutpost.com/1111760-post14.html

during the day, and at night.

looks nice.

This is way better than mine. Mine look cloudy inside and out

I've seen a post about removing headlight assembly and rinsing inside with methanol I believe. It removed the cloudy film that forms on inside. The outside can usually be fixed with sanding and clear coating.

I've sanded mine and used Meguiar's clear coat for headlights and while the Passenger Side came out perfect and looks brand new now, the Driver Side is still cloudly and now at night when the lights turn on I can see stress marks all over.

Now it bothers me even more that left and right don't match. I would of preferred both sides to look cloudy together hahaha

That picture makes them look much better than they are, head-on it looks worse, it looks like the power of the lights has somehow scorched the lens, im sure its on the inside, im thinking of letting it get a little worse & then doing the lens replacement for £140

This is how bad my drivers side is even after sanding and polishing.

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With the lights off:
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Do you think its on the inside ? i'm sure mine is, it sort of mirror's the beam of the lights.

That's why I bought lenses to replace.
Used headlights have same problem

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any drama replacing them ? i've seen video's on youtube, looks easy enough.

not as easy. It's just tedious because you can cut stuff up and screw it up.

Not super easy to replace. Getting the headlights out is a challenge, and then removing the lens is tedious. The results are worth the effort though.

So turns out what I had on my drivers side headlights was crazing. I didn’t sand it down enough and the original clear coat was failing.

So I went down to 240 all the way to 5000 grit and finished it off with plastiX:

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I’ll be coating it with meguiars headlight spray.


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Nice, hell of an improvement ! could you feel anything on the outside ? mine look to me as if the bulb is somehow scorching the inside, but I used to have a Volvo XC90 that i though was marked on the inside, sanded it anyway & it came up perfect.

No I thought mine was from the inside as well because you couldn’t feel with the hand either. Thought they were stress cracks.

Mine took more aggressiveness grits due to the fact I had clear coated it from my previous attempt and was hard getting all that off first.

I initially tried with 600 grit but wasn’t getting anywhere and kept going down until I noticed the crazing was almost completely gone.


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Mine looked like it had so many rock chips (like post #12 above) I decided to use lamin-x and just covered the whole lens up with a slight tint. I know it's not ideal to darken the headlamps, but it was a quick fix to this until... well, I don't know.

How did the Lamin-X turn out? I'm sure if did'nt get rid of the crazing effect with it did it?

Crazing effect on the lens or on the road being illuminated? Didn't have an issue with the latter and now I don't see either to be honest.