ouch my headlight....

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Well now, wanting to add flash in my headlights I made the big stupidity....
I piercing, I had not seen that they were doubled and the chrome portion generated full of dust that is spread throughout the optical ...
Not enough stupidity a day I had the bright idea of ​​putting water into believing that by some miracle the fire cleanse ....
situation even worse.
And thus two solutions:
buy a lighthouse around nine at Jean charles 500th 100th or ebay but U.S. version so gabari orange lights, so need to change both
Or disassemble the ...
I chose option 2
And the galley began.
As they are airtight I struggled to minimu 5-6 hours for a successful open.
Here are some photos:












interior part


cleanning all parts


I make this job in 6 hours
crazy job!

Patching




the next stage stick the glass

 
At least you were able to fix the problem. :thumbsup:
 
For those who might be scratching their heads, he wanted to add emergency lights (strobes) to the headlights but when he drilled into it, it made a bunch of dust that spread all over the inside.

Now, I'm wondering about those clear side lights. I guess those are for Europe? All of North American models are amber as far as I know. Is the bulb for it amber?
 
Look at this my mission is finished!


And i fix the led flash into the turn signal cover
[video=youtube;ULVv-ytXJHY]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULVv-ytXJHY&feature=plcp[/video]
What do you think about this?
For the french show car i have the red/blue strobe into the car.
 
Yes FRANCE bulb is white but to restore is US identity , I put in place the orange bulbs.(but in orange the light is not very strong like yours! because the plastic parts is white...
 
Good job on saving the light and the strobes also look good. :thumbsup:
 
Those do look very good and the price is reasonable. They're bright enough that you would think that they were the old style strobes instead of LED's.
 

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