What's Going On? I Wanted To Know If Any One Knew How To Intall The Lexan Lenses Into Their Fog Lights. I Really To Get This Done Quick Because One Of My Fogs Are Cracked And I Have Phillips 6000k's On In The Fog Light...dont Want The To Blow Out...

Thanks To All That Post....

 

i did mine about a year ago this month. getting all the glass out of the lens is the tough part. i used a hair dryer to heat the white factory weather sealant around the glass and then used a jewelers screwdriver (small sharp tip) to get underneath it and pry it up. wear gloves and glasses because you *will* break the glass. get all of it out and clean the remaining factory sealant off the lip where the lens rests. be careful though about letting glass fall inside the housing. the silver reflector part scratches easily.

use a bead of clear silicone around the edge of the plastic lense and set it in place (or put the bead on the housing lip and set the lens that way if you're concerned about smearing. remember to use a small bead because it will spread a little when you push the lense down. try to keep it centered when you put it down. if you don't and the silicone smears a bit try not to worry. mine is a little smeared but it dried clear so it's tough to tell unless you're close up on it.

the lexan lenses are not curved like the factory lenses so i recommend taping them down with duct-tape when you set the silicone sealant. i did this and left it for maybe an hour or two on my kitchen table to dry up. when you take the tape off (carefully so as not to pull the lens back off) the lens will probably relax back to it's nearly original shape. when it does just fill in any gaps it leaves between it and the light housing and let is dry. when you're sure it's all sealed and dry just reinstall it.

and this may sound obvious but i did it because i was lazy, but DON'T USE A CAULKING GUN TO DO THIS JOB. go out and buy a little handheld tube of silicone caulk. my job would have been better if i had done that myself. you do not need high temperature silicone to do this either.

let us know how it goes!

SSTS

edit: i have photos of when i did this. i will post them when i get home from work for everyone's reference.

 

Thanks a lot...i will def let you know how it goes...will by the lense today and do it tonight.

 

just curious if this is for cosmetics or functional?

 

both in a way. the glass lenses are quite prone to breaking (by getting hit by rocks and road debris). the lexan lense is nearly unbreakable and makes your foglight look better because you're not driving around with big cracks in your glass lenses anymore.

lexan will yellow over time from the UV exposure, but this is inevitable. the solution is just to replace them every 5 years or whatever. they're cheap enough.

SSTS

 

If you have HID's in your fogs the lexan lens will melt and bubble up.

 

Mine didnt do that, and I've been running HID's pretty much as DRL's and its been that way for almost 2 years now.

 

ARE YOU SAYING THIS FROM PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE OR A THEORY?

 

HID's do NOT run any hotter than halogen, in fact, they run cooler. Why do you people not get that through your freakin head. They run cooler, they use less power.