cleaning the taillights

[88supraTT]

My car is not running right now so I'm going through and fixing all the little crap that a 20 year old 190,000 miles car breaks or wears out. I noticed when i press my brakes I seen little bugs and crap in my tails. Question,how can i seperate the houseing from the lens? I really don't want to speed 200 bucks to get rid of some bugs and perfect tail lamps.

thanks
caleb

 

[Kylar27]

Have you tried removing the tail lights from the car and maybe using some compressed air or water to clean them out? As long as you remove the bulb cluster I dont see any harm in doing this.

 

[TobyCat]

You can clean them pretty good when off the car, just take out the bulbs. So long as the bugs aren't between the lense/platic then you're golden. If bugs are inside, well ... talk to Tekdues or look at his thread on how to seperate tail lights (lots of work)

 

[88supraTT]

You can clean them pretty good when off the car, just take out the bulbs. So long as the bugs aren't between the lense/platic then you're golden. If bugs are inside, well ... talk to Tekdues or look at his thread on how to seperate tail lights (lots of work)

there in the lens, so now ill search for that thread

thanks for the start

 

[willfish]

just take a medium bristle brush, with some cleaning solution / an a bucket of water an put some elbow into it,, but not too much or the red with wear off like mine.....


Will

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