For some reason my headlight projector is glazed over with something. A lonnngggg time ago in the age of rice, I had blue headlights and one of the bulbs exploded, and I think the bulb adhered to the projector somehow. How can I clean my projector-- or should I just buy a new assembly??

 

Try alcohol and some goo-gone (not mixed, one at a time)

Next I would try paint thinner but I would get more opinions because I'm not sure if that will screw up any coating that is on the projector that is supposed to be there.

 

If you feel comfortable with baking your headlights in the oven (to heat up the adhesive) you can take them apart and clean it all out. This is what it looks like when the headlights are apart:

 

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Is the brown part plastic or metal?

 

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i believe it's fiberglass.....just a guess.......

 

I'm not exactly sure, but it felt like a very brittle metal to me. I was trying to mess w/ the cutoff shield in mine and ended up breaking it It didn't really feel like fiberglass to me



I ended up doing a temporary fix by using a piece of a Dr. Pepper can as a shield and then later I got a broken 98 headlight w/ the insides still intact, for free, so I just swapped the inside stuff over to my housing.

 

If your projectors are foggy due to a hyper white exploding the only way to fix it is to disassemble the entire housing and take apart the projector. The same thing happend to me, but i ended up just buying a new headlight and experimented on the old one.

 

Just a fair warning, it is not very difficult but not for the faint of heart.

 

Just hack that **** off:

 

I will be, once I get some 98+ headlights along w/ bumper, and OEM HID projectors to go in them