This has been discussed before, but I provide some pictures for MY2000+ headlight baking to get the orange reflector out. Don't bash my camera skills either, all these pics were taken with my cell phone.
First off, clean the kitchen, grab a drink, head outside.
Unbolt the three bolts holding the headlight in. There is another plastic clip deep inside, but I didn't have the patience to get off normal, so I just snapped it. Its low and near the back and its color is white. I think its worthless, but now that I've said that it probably has some bigger meaning.
Unscrew the cap, take out all the lights, and gently remove each headlight casing.
Next, head inside, grab a baking sheet, preheat your over to 250 degrees. Remember, don't touch any part of any lightbulb and don't touch anything you dont have to touch, namely inside plastics.
Unscrew I think 5-6 silver looking screws holding the back of the casing together snuggly. Remove the last high-beam light if you want, I cooked with and without, didn't really make a difference. There is a huge screw sticking out 2-3 inches and a smaller screw behind some grey plastic. Don't worry about these, I think they have to do with headlight levelling, but do not hold the pieces together.
Also, that white clip that you either broke or did not brake is held on by two screws. I dont think you HAVE to remove this piece, but I did.
Once the over is preheated, stick the headlight casing on the baking sheet, put it in the over. I waited about 5 minutes before removing. I think it would go longer and make the glue more plyable if you left it in longer, but I was too anxious, and took it out after 5-7 minutes and pryed the casing open. A few more minutes wouldn't have hurt.
Once you pry off the first layer, you'll naturally have two halves.
Put the back side to the side, and concentrate on the front piece. There are now three black screws holding the silver relfective piece to the clear plastic. Remove the screws, pull the two pieces apart.
Now insert a screw driver between the orange relfector and the clear plastic, pop, and its out.
Retract your steps back to put it back together. Once everything was mostly put back together(minus the screws on the outside) I put it back in the oven to heat up the glue again. With the glue heated again, I made sure everything was snug, and rescrewed everything back in. At this point, you may or may not want to use a silicone based liquid to seal everything back up again. I didn't, but this I'm in Arizona, and it doesn't rain anyways.
Check out the difference:
After placing back on the car, checking all bulbs to make sure they work, I got these results:
Not bad. There is still orange visable, but thats from the bulb. This orange will probably keep you from getting any tickets for 'clear corners' because technically this mod is 'illegal'.
As you can tell, the difficulty of this isn't that bad, took under 2 hours start to finish. Good luck!
Originally Posted by fibuz
This has been discussed before, but I provide some pictures for MY2000+ headlight baking to get the orange reflector out. Don't bash my camera skills either, all these pics were taken with my cell phone.
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