clear corners

clear corners

is there a way to clear the headlight corners but not taking out the unit itself

No i dont think so, the only ways i have seen is taking the unit out and clearing it through the turn signal hole, or opening the whole light up using some sort of heat. I would suggest just doing the Turn signal DIY is easy and should take you no more then 2 hours.

yeah...the DIY is prolly the easiest. just make sure that when you're forcing the amber piece out of the unit with a screwdriver, don't scratch the clear plastic surface of the unit. don't wanna have scratches in the end...

Another thing, if you are gonna be using the DIY, you're gonna be cracking the amber piece while its inside the unit. Once you crack it enough to get all the pieces out, you may want to use a DustBuster with the thin straw. A can of air pressure they use for computers and sewing machines. You can get them at any office supply store. Use the DustBuster to blow off all the tiny amber pieces left in the unit. If you dont, you'll have little orange pieces in there that look like orange salt deposits. :? just FYI...

thanks for the tip druid, im about to do mine. Do alot of people do the DIY for their clear corners? plaese post if you do.

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I did the DIY clear corners... wasnt too bad once you figure out wich way to pry the amber piece so it breaks loose. looks great now tho... got Sylvania ailverstar 3157 bulbs in the signals now... looks real nice!!!!

I did the DIY. The first piece does take awhile while the second took probably 1/4 the time. I'll get SS as well hopefully soon.

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Well, this past weekend I cleared my headlights and they look great. However, if you examine the lense it is scratched. For me, after breaking the first 2 clips then pulling and popping it off it seemed completely unavoidable to get out the amber without scratching the lense. I couldn't find my wire cutters (found them the day after on the roof, rusted as hell) and figured that I already had te damn light out, I have to finish this. So, using my resoursefulness, I looked for the next best thing: a Miller's Forge dog toe nail clipper (http://store5.yimg.com/I/petcarecentral_1782_332407279). Yes you saw that right, a dog's toe nail clipper. It worked great because it pinched on the area i wanted to cut before i cut it. I think it worked better than what the wire cutter could do.

My one addition I would make to the DIY would be to actually show a picture or describe better where the 3 clips are in the light. Sure, i knew there were three, hell the first one was easy to get off, but i did not see another one other than the opposite corner. So after seaching this forums history for a good for advice, I started looking in between the back of the "chrome" part and the lense. After holding the headlight in the air so i could see light on the other side, I discovered my orange piece, the last one. So, pushed a flathead screw driver on it hard to break it (sticking the screwdriver in between the plastic and the backside of the "chrome"). So to refresh your memory, if looking at the headlight as if it was on the car, you pop out the one closest to the grille (by sticking the screwdriver in the blinker hole), then break the next one inside headlight (as described above), and finally put the scredriver back in to push that last damn clip out. Once it was out of all three clips, my lense scratching occured while pulling it away. I also used some long nose pliers too, by grabbing the amber and twisting - not a good idea. the amber piece put pressure on the lipped part where the light fits and broke some of it. Now it is not really noticebable at all, but it could have been worse (as I scratched the lense from it too).

So this is here to help all of you in my situation. Perhaps if i had broken more of the clip the scratching could have been lessened, but I dont think it could have been eliminated. I guess this message might not pertain to what the original question was but whatever.

I actually had a problem when I tried to do my DIY - I've tried doing this twice, and both times I couldnt find that hidden bolt to unscrew. First time I didnt find ANYTHING, but the second time i thought i found it and unscrewed the wrong one. I think I kinda know where it is now, but it seems to me that i'd need to pull with a lot of force to get the bumper down far enough to get to the bolt, and I was afraid of breaking it. Could someone offer some input in this?

yup...you gotta pull that bumper down...

it'll seem like its gonna break or bend...but its made of Polyurethane so it bends easily and won't stay bent.. just pull it down, unscrew the bottom screw and you're set. just remember which screws you took off because when you put them back on...you may be putting the wrong screws on the wrong places.