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Old May 6, 2007 | 04:07 PM
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The tints will look very nice, I have them on my 5.0. They will run the risk of fogging up, but the best way to stop that is to drill two or three breather holes in the bottom of the lights, this will allow them to breath, and preven moister build up on the inside layer. Now if it's really humid where you live, this trick will work decently, but nothing will totally prevent moister build up on the inside of the lense. www.mrbodykit.com sells some decent light kits.
Old May 6, 2007 | 04:23 PM
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The tints will look very nice, I have them on my 5.0. They will run the risk of fogging up, but the best way to stop that is to drill two or three breather holes in the bottom of the lights, this will allow them to breath, and preven moister build up on the inside layer. Now if it's really humid where you live, this trick will work decently, but nothing will totally prevent moister build up on the inside of the lense. www.mrbodykit.com sells some decent light kits.
wouldnt it be a better idea to just use some sealant around the whole thing?
Old May 6, 2007 | 04:59 PM
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Won't help, humidity will find the smallest crack and get through. I've heard of a lot of people around here trying to seal their lights and it never works, but a bud of mine (I used to work with) from Austrailia told me about a trick he learned in Austrailia about drilling small breather holes in the bottom of your lights. First you seal the lights to make sure no moister can get in when it rains, then you drill two or three small breather holes in the bottom of the lights to allow fresh air to filter in through the bottom and eliminate temperature differences between inside and outside which causes moister to condence on the inside layer of the lense.
Old May 6, 2007 | 05:05 PM
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yeah, some places are just too humid (texas and louisiana for example) for sealing the lights to be worth it. you'd be redoing it all the time

im not sure how you guys headlight bulbs attach to the lens, but on my fox it just screws in and you'd have to rtv the bulb in to get a good seal. not worth it. luckily my headlights dont fog up, i guess they made em right. they're "depo" repros
Old May 6, 2007 | 05:08 PM
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Yea, ours just screw in from the back side. Well more of a turn and lock kind of a thing. In any since, it doesn't make a good seal from the back side, which is why the lights fog up in humid areas. Hell the Mustang that took 1rst place in my class yesterday had moister build up in the headlights, no breather holes, but fully sealed from the front.
Old May 6, 2007 | 07:24 PM
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the clear corners do have reflectors, they are just clear, i have em , they reflect light at night fine
i have sealed my lights but if im not careful on hot days when i wash my car humidity will get in there, gotta love the south
Old May 7, 2007 | 02:55 AM
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dam[:@]oh well. I could keep the ones i have for inspections and drive around with clear side
Old May 7, 2007 | 11:16 AM
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i have a qs about the projector headlights from ebay does any1 know how the wire up and if you need to mod any thing? i would like to get them but dont want to cuf anything up ya know
Old May 7, 2007 | 04:59 PM
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did u now here me i have those lights and they do have reflectors they are just the clear kind, they still reflect light, just like a bicycle reflector or w/e
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