ms3 tail lights

[blkspeed]

can you bake or heat gun the tail lights? ive only seen the fronts baked

 

[Saskatchewan17]

I don't believe so.

 

[blkspeed]

dang, they are easy to get off but i wanted to make sure before i took every thing apart. and i saw that the 2010 tails you cant so i just want to make sure

 

[oaklandopen]

a heat gun might be your best option, but you'd have to be extremely carefull doing it. when baking you're only going to like 200 or something, but there's circuitry for the LED's inside the housing for the tail lights, and baking them might mess something up

with a heat gun you might start to melt the plastic if you A)heat too closely B)leave it in one spot for too long

maybe try a hair drier? i think to do it right you'd have to set it up and then just constantly go around in circles till just the glued edges get hot enough to pry apart. but like baking the fronts, you'd have to slowly pry and then apply heat, and repeat those steps over and over again

 

[blkspeed]

yea i was hoping to hear about the heat gun. i dont trust ovens. but i donno if i know enough about experimenting, unless some one has done this already

 

[Hank3]

I posted the below in a previous thread regarding the baking of tail lights:

From what I read, other members have discouraged baking and opening tail lights due to a different type of seal. A few people tried baking the tails (like the headlights) and they wouldn't budge. They kept trying and trying and they ended up melting them. Just thought I'd throw that out there.

Here is someone else's post from another forum:

The reason why you can't bake them is because they are not sealed with glue . . . the lens is fused to the housing (read: housing is melted along the edges, then lens is stuck on it to while still hot). Or so it would seem from looking at it. The easiest way to open it up would be to cut around the outside very carefully. Not sure what the best way to do that is though since when I was grinding mine down, the plastic tended to melt and turn kind of gooey rather than turn into dust like you'd expect it to. It dremmels like styrene . . .

 

[oaklandopen]

i wonder if a band saw or a hacksaw would be better. the band saw should have a slow enough speed as not to melt anything, you'd just have to keep turning it and make an attempt to make straight cuts

 

[blkspeed]

damn. i just feel it would be wack to black out the front headlights and the rears be the only chrome left on the car.... gay.