Guys....I fucked up big, this is the most fucked up thing I have done to the car.

Don't know if you guys can help me think? Any thing is appreciated, I know I can always count on TCC for help, it has never let me down before.

I did my Black JDM headlight according to the TCC article. One thing the article forgot to mentioned was that - not all ovens are the same. I put the temp exactly what the instruction says and I never waited for 10 mins to check, I checked after 5 mins. Now, the back of my headlight assembly is 20% melted - with some mod, I did get it reinstalled prefectly. the problem is, the clear part of the headlight, got melted too. I am getting some crazy *** beam pattern that's in your face beam, no matter how you aim.

All I need is to replace the clear part of the headlight. This following is the company that make the assembly. http://www.koito.co.jp/f_index.html

I have tried to translate the contact info, but was unsuccessful.
Don't know if anyone else has this problem or knows anything.

Any suggestion is appreciated.


Thanks

 

Dai!!! PM is full, clear clear!

 

Addresses




Representatives

Head Office 4-8-3, Takanawa, Minato-ku, Tokyo 108-8711, Japan
TEL: 81-3-3443-7111


Overseas Relations (Automotive Parts)

Export Department TEL : 81-3-3447-5167 (Tokyo)
FAX : 81-3-3447-5173
Pan-Pacific Operations TEL : 81-3-3447-5172 (Tokyo)
FAX : 81-3-3447-5173
East-Asia Operations TEL : 81-3-3447-5164 (Tokyo)
FAX : 81-3-3447-5173
Euro-American Operations TEL : 81-3-3447-5166 (Tokyo)
FAX : 81-3-3447-5173


Aircraft Equipment

Aircraft Equipment Department TEL : 81-3-3447-5191 (Tokyo)
FAX : 81-3-3443-3680

 

****.... there's nothing in my PM...

I don't understand why they wouldn't let you PM me?
Anyways, thanks for the info.

By the way, you have my email, PM is for ppl that don't know my email.

"drink some, some and bull ****" I think you know what that means?

 

jus get new headlight.
u can get it for like 60 bucks off the members here.
or for 110 brand new oe replica.

 

I thought I posted a response saying the temp of ovens are different when I messed mine up? oh well. I had similar problem, melted clear top portion of my headlight, just covered up with eyebrow...lol

 

you gotta clear out your sent items too

 

yeah clear ou thte sent items.. anyways as for the head light issue wasn't it suppose to be like 10 to 15 seconds in the heat ... enough to warm up the silicon but not enough to cook it .. also it matters what burner you put on since heat from the top is different fromt he heat fromt he bottom

 

Why would you do this??? Why bother melting the glue when it'll just come apart by itself with enough prying. Anyways, if you call a bunch of body shops, they may have headlights with cracked housings but the clear part is good. They toss em out.

 

That's why I haven't done my black housing, yet. I saw a friend's car with one of the head light cooked...

Maybe a heat gun is a better solution.

 

No need to heat them AT ALL Nova_Dust. A nice hot day will do it, leave them in the sun if you must.

 

D dot T: My melted headlights is worst, the back and fronts are melted. The front is messed up so bad... the shape of the headlight is different.

I took me 3-5 mins to melt mine not even close to 10-15 mins.

B... that's a good idea... should of asked before doing this project. I guess I messed up big...

 

Where you went wrong, I'm guessing is that the headlight was on too high a rack, so it got broiled basically Haha... learn from it, don't beat yourself up over it. Look on ebay, you should be able to find somethig in the next few weeks most likely...some less than perfect examples that you can make it work from. But ya, body shops just toss out the old ones, so if you can find a place that specailized in Toy's then you're in the money.

 

About the PM thing... me = a computer idiot, I just clear out the million sent I had.

Thanks, now back to headlights

 

I am going to check out some shops today

 

Did you paint it black or gunmetal chrome?

 

me or drift? Mine are black, like my soul j/k

 

I painted my black.

I only have one messed up headlight, the other one is prefect.

Now I know to put it out in the sun, B. is right, it does not take much to melt the silicones.

 

NEVER USE OVEN, it's for food not cars!!!!!!!! ahaha.... there's nothing I can do now, but laugh at myself.

 

But why not paint it gunmetal chrome? Doesn't it look closer to CTR headlights?