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Old 08-08-2008, 02:28 PM
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I know this topic has been covered before but I have never done anything to my headlights. I was washing my car yesterday and it was hot out (96), I noticed my passenger side headlight had a little condensation in front of the low beam, and the turn signal was full of condensation. Could the seal have worn out? I checked to see if a rock cracked it, but there was nothing. Any help would be appreciated.
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Yea, before you go opening ur headlights like i did, just go find some SILICA GELS and open the HID COVER in the back and tape like two packs of the silica gels u find in shoe boxes and close it up. See if that works 1st, if not then you got to reseal dood... I resealed then didnt seem to work well, but it was better then i stuck two of the silica packs inside the hid cover and now im condensation free WOOHOO lol
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I have searched. I just don't want to remove my headlight and reseal it. The silica gel beads sound like the easiest thing. Any other ideas?
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Thanks, this is exactly the thing I was looking for.
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Eh, i tried that hanger thing... not really helpful... U cant get to the edges of the headlights with it... just open the back of ur HID headlight and stick the gels in the walls of the cover. Shouldnt take more than 15 minutes...
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Originally Posted by badeh2
Eh, i tried that hanger thing... not really helpful... U cant get to the edges of the headlights with it... just open the back of ur HID headlight and stick the gels in the walls of the cover. Shouldnt take more than 15 minutes...
Does it require removing the bumper?
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sicili packates from new shoes boxes. thats what i did and it sucked it out of there
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Originally Posted by badeh2
Yea, before you go opening ur headlights like i did, just go find some SILICA GELS and open the HID COVER in the back and tape like two packs of the silica gels u find in shoe boxes and close it up. See if that works 1st, if not then you got to reseal dood... I resealed then didnt seem to work well, but it was better then i stuck two of the silica packs inside the hid cover and now im condensation free WOOHOO lol

the silica gel....u opened the packets n poured the gels inside the light or u tape em behind the hid n then put the cocer on em??? im a lil confused of how u did it....i jus opened my headlights n they fogged up pretty bad im thinking bout doing it over again..but if the gels will fix the issue ill do dat
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