well, i was fortunate enough to have my bubbling housings replaced last month under warranty.....

well..... it is now a month later and the new housings are starting to bubble....

i think it is a design flaw...

i was talking to my friend, who is head tech at my dealership about the headlights.... he was telling me that the ballasts for the hid's is mounted to the bottom of the housing....

therefore my conclusion is that the ballasts are getting so hot that it is causing the paint to bubble....

any other ideas?

to those that have had theirs warrantied, have you looked at your new housings lately?

or is this just a freak thing that is only happening to me....

 

can you post pictures of the bubbling?

 

mine is doing this also, i remeber there was a group of people on s2ki that mention this, i felt liek i was the only one. i have pictures at home, how bad is ur bubbling?

 

pics? I'd like to see what's happening. My headlights haven't had that problem. At least, not yet...

 

is this only a problem in the 00-01 headlights?

 

The only kind of bubbling incidents I remember seeing are those with Stongard (or similar 3M product) installed on them. Those cases where the bubbling incidents happened, at least the ones I witnessed, were outdoor stored cars - during the day / during the night.

If this fits your scenario, don't install the 3M products on these lights.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Mr. Bagel &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">The only kind of bubbling incidents I remember seeing are those with Stongard (or similar 3M product) installed on them. Those cases where the bubbling incidents happened, at least the ones I witnessed, were outdoor stored cars - during the day / during the night.

If this fits your scenario, don't install the 3M products on these lights.</TD></TR></TABLE>

there is no kind of 3m film(protectant) on my headlights

the car is garage kept and driven on the weekends

the bubbling that i am referring to is inside the housing just under the projector in the black paint.....

i will try to have pics up tomorrow

 

happened to mine too....dealer said they'd get back to me but never did.

 

Just take it back to your dealer and get it fixed again

 

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i will try to have pics up tomorrow</TD></TR></TABLE>

 

didn't they have a recall on some headlights. cause of the bubbling?? it's just the black plastic area right????

 

here are a couple pics......

the last set of housings were worse than this..... however, they were on the car for 4 years, and these have only been on the car for a month

i would imagine as time goes on it will get worse....

 

I have those on mine but I want to upgrade to the 04 anyways, so I dont want to bother with the warrenty issue !

 

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there is no kind of 3m film(protectant) on my headlights

the car is garage kept and driven on the weekends

the bubbling that i am referring to is inside the housing just under the projector in the black paint.....

i will try to have pics up tomorrow</TD></TR></TABLE>

the same with mine, mines an 2000, n to this day it has 17k miles. ive always garaged kept it, its only felt rain twice.

 

welcome to the low mileage y2k s2000 lub.....

i am about to turn 12,000 on mine....

yeah, mine looked as bad as yours if not worse.....

do you have any ideas? i think i am pretty dead on about the extremely hot ballasts mounted to the bottom of the housings...design flaw....

 

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i am about to turn 12,000 on mine....

yeah, mine looked as bad as yours if not worse.....

do you have any ideas? i think i am pretty dead on about the extremely hot ballasts mounted to the bottom of the housings...design flaw....</TD></TR></TABLE>

lol its tought trying to drive it, and i had a mentality of wanting to keep it clean and scared of adding mileage, haha we should start one. 12k is pretty low. what year is it a 2000? im guessing from what u or others have said that its the hid heating the headights up. where did u get urs fixed? i need to take mine, plus one side foged up once for some reason. did most of u have ur tail lights fixed?

 

do these ballasts get hot enough to do that? I would first say it might be isolated to a series of VIN#'s as opposed to the ballast location. I have no bubbles in my headlights. Daily drove the car for 2 years, then it was mainly track driven the 3rd year.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by vapor &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">do these ballasts get hot enough to do that? I would first say it might be isolated to a series of VIN#'s as opposed to the ballast location. I have no bubbles in my headlights. Daily drove the car for 2 years, then it was mainly track driven the 3rd year. </TD></TR></TABLE>


yes, i totally agree with you, except this is my second set of headlight housings....

just warrantied a month ago.....

 

Yeah mine have bubbles in them too. Gonna go get mine replaced under warranty also .

 

i wonder if mine has bubbles *runs off to check*

 

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yes, i totally agree with you, except this is my second set of headlight housings....

just warrantied a month ago.....</TD></TR></TABLE>

now something isn't right. I'm hoping the dealer replaced them with the right part #?

 

hey this is paul, I heard that you posted up a bunch of stuff about me on the spugen site saying I stabbed Duc in the back etc etc??? I want to know how you think I did that and why, I never stabbed him in the back, I doubt even he thinks that.

 

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Are you Paul Walker?

 

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yes, i totally agree with you, except this is my second set of headlight housings....

just warrantied a month ago.....</TD></TR></TABLE>

If I was in your position I would demand them replaced again and this time with the 2004 Headlamps because the dont have the same issues from what you have read online and that ud be willing to pay a little extra

thats what my bud did and he had to B^tch alot but they ended up doing it and not even charging the extra since he offered to pay