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How to permanently fix your foggy VW Golf / Jettaheadlights! Replace plastic with glass lens
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what is valeo headlights?
That is one cool video thanks for posting it.
Have you heard of this wipe on headlight cleaner called “Headlight Clean”. This stuff is amazing take a look at their website.
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Great video! Thanks so much. Seems really straight forward, are there good instructions or video for how to remove the headlight assembly out there?
thats cheap, in the uk the golf mk4 gti 25th anniversary has no chrome, they are all black and want $310 each (yes i used a converter)
the oven would have been faster.
You do know that the RTV out gasses and will cause it to fog the reflectors inside.
They can’t be the same for each side, the optics has to be focusing the beam properly. And there is differences in E code or U.S. DOT.
3M has the plastic lens restore, less work. Plus is the glass less DOT/SAE labeled? If it’s LEGAL it ha to have the DOT SAE embossed on the glass, no DOT, not legal. Technicality matter, even though of course new glass puts light back out on the road, but without DOT, they are technically illegal.
My 65′ bug has glass lenses and it has never broken. I even rear ended someone at 25mph and it didn’t even scratch it. It looks like a similar thickness. Glass lenses for life!
I know that ime in the business of replenishing headlight lenses as a job and ime very popular.
Because unlike polishing your stock lenses, this is a permanent fix. Glass will never fade or oxidize in the sun.
Great guide! My car looks much newer and sexier now.
Do you need to heat up the silicone tube before applying it?
Thank you so much for doing this video! Bought a pair of glass lenses last summer for $70 on Ebay. Spent about two hours time to remove the plastic lens, clean out the old sealant,put in new sealant and glass and now my lights are so bright, it’s fantastic! VW can take the $265 (each) they’re asking for new light assemblies and stick it up their arse!
Why did you go to the trouble of replacing the plastic headlight cover when you could have used wet and dry and brought that lens up to new ,ime in the business of saving motorists hundreds of pounds from buying new headlights.
Many thanks for sharing your expertise. The Mrs. Has a Cabrio with terrible lights. Know how to change now. Thanks well demonstrated and filmed
take some light output video and share it!
Nächstes mal mit karosseriekleber! Ich bin Glaser & normaler Silikon kann die Scheibe irgendwann blind machen! Gruß
Valeo is a brand, just like Hella!
The hella ones are easy to open, but the valeo cannot be opened without smashing or cracking it.
ended up smashing the lens trying this, apparently europe uses different glue? Mine was so tough I ended up smashing the lens and partly melting the plastic…be warned!!!
what are valeo headlights?????? I just cracked mine trying this….
Thanks for the video. Made a job I wouldn’t think about attempting a breeze.
Please don’t spread fiction as fact. Any hardware grade clear silicon has a max temp between 400-500 degrees F. Far beyond “the black stuff” which would be liquid at those temps if not smoking. Silicon used to be rated for 25 years, but even that proved an understatement and now it’s rated “lifetime” as it out lasts anything it is used on. I have silicon caulking on my home (and tractor) in the daily sunlight that is over 30 years old.
I wonder if somebody makes these for 2001 Nissan Xterras.
Making a headlight with acrylic (plastic) is way cheaper for manufacturs than usign glass and more convenient. Before we knew about all this restoring tricks, we used to buy the new headlight because we didn’t know it could be fixed. Of course, eventually we’ll have to buy new headlights unless somebody start with the glass lens spare business. That would be just awesome.
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Whats the specific color of your golf?
Haha 😀 I’ve smashed my valeo ones, painted the inside of the lights to black, then had another pair of HELLA and took the glass from them, then fitted to the VALEO plastics… was a nightmare…
Thanks…wish I read that 5 hours ago 🙁
Might have helped to actually heat the seam of the light… Not the lip on the lense
That’s what’s up!
Nice!
Yeah they’re strong glass lenses. There’s also Lamin-X protectors for the glass lens.
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I need glass for my 05 passat non HID headlights. Does Mike@Volxtuning have an email or site to buy?
The glass is very thick, I have over 50,000 miles with no trouble so far.
Until a rock hits it and shatters it!
At 16:43 it looks as if the metal clips have cracked the lens.The clips that held on the plastic lens might not be suitable for the glass lens.Glass chips easily on the edges
I saw on eBay some lenses like these for an mk5 jetta would the process be the same !
How do you repair a halo lens mines fading out?
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