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One good stone from a vehicle in front will show you why they went away from glass. Replaced many headlights when they were glass due to stones/rocks. At least when they shifted to bulbs vs. sealed beams, the light still worked when the cover was broken.
I never had that prob for years driving cars with real glass headlights dwight.
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If your headlights get badly yellowed the safest thing to do is spring for new headlight assemblies. Don't cost more than $60 odd bucks at NAPA while being a snap to install.
Headlights are not a place to cheap it.
what kind of car are you talking about. Headlight assemblies that I see can go up into the high $100s. A used Lexus headlight on EBAY is going for $500 to $700.
If your headlights get badly yellowed the safest thing to do is spring for new headlight assemblies. Don't cost more than $60 odd bucks at NAPA while being a snap to install.
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NOT all cars.
Got one set first - Made in China. Looked exactly the same as originals. But the connector was completely different. Refund
Got another sent this time Made in Taiwan. Connected right but the rubber required around light too flimsy and had to use duct tape. Junk.
On my other older car I went to a professional shop and paid $80.00 and both lens are like new.
Best to have a professional shop do it on original factory headlight lens.
If you care about your vehicle even the tiniest bit, DO NOT GET YOUR VEHICLE SERVICED AT WALMART!!! If all you care about when servicing your vehicle is cost, you're cutting your own throat. Pay peanuts, get monkeys!!! There's a reason who those guys work at Walmart, it's because they're either hacks or wanna be techs that couldn't cut it in a real shop.
I never had that prob for years driving cars with real glass headlights dwight.
Same, have never seen this problem on older cars with REAL glass headlights. But nowadays they make as much as they can out of plastic, including headlight lenses, so it's not surprising that foggy headlights is becoming a common problem on vehicles.
Same, have never seen this problem on older cars with REAL glass headlights. But nowadays they make as much as they can out of plastic, including headlight lenses, so it's not surprising that foggy headlights is becoming a common problem on vehicles.
OK, get off your lawn. I'm old enough to remember replacing the old round and rectangle glass "sealed beam" headlamps, but that was over 30 or 40 years ago. The car companies went to plastic not to save cost, but for appearance. Todays headlamps cost WAY more than those days when you could get a generic bulb off the shelf. Appearance and performance is a quantum leap improvement. Ever notice how much brighter new car headlights are, or how intricate the designs are with integrated turn signals, daytime running lights, LED's, complex shapes of the lit elements, etc?
With that comes the problems associated with UV degradation from the sun. The sun is a worthy adversary. Very difficult to prevent sun damage. If you can avoid parking the vehicle facing the sun they will not cloud. But sealed beams are a relic of the past and any company that ever tried to keep using them would be a laughing stock.
PS: I also used the Turtle Wax kit to restore the headlights on our car and it worked well, not back to like new but back to like 90%. You really need to follow directions, use masking tape, you just buff it with the cream & use some elbow grease, wipe that off, repeat if needed, and move fast when applying the final glaze step. If you screw up the glaze by moving too slow you can buff it back off, I had to do this. Hard to mess it up.
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