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Can someone help me bake my headlights. i will pay them. i seem to be absolutely terrible at it since i have stuffed up two front headlights already
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I think its telling you something... they were never meant to open! :lol:
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Putting the headlights in the oven is really not that scary, just need to take a bit of care. My tips are:
*Put the headlights into a cold oven, don't preheat the oven
*Keep the oven on the lowest possible temperature setting
*Put the headlight at the bottom of the oven, this should be the coolest position. If your oven has a bottom heating element, don't switch it on
*Put the headlight on something like a cork or silicon heat mat or even just a tea towel, avoid metal
*Do one headlight at a time
*If your oven is very 'fast' you can place a baking tray in the middle of the oven, so that your headlight is in the 'shade' underneath, just make sure they don't touch

And most of all, just be patient. You want to give it some time for the whole unit to heat up evenly.

Oh, and bake some cookies while you are there. Everyone likes cookies.
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or you could always just use a heatgun, and evanly heat around the edge, to warm the seal then crack it, once youve done that the whole way around keep it warm with the heatgun and slowly pri it off, obviously be careful not to crack the cover,
might be less daunting then putting your headlight in your oven lol
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Connor_1994 wrote:or you could always just use a heatgun, and evanly heat around the edge, to warm the seal then crack it, once youve done that the whole way around keep it warm with the heatgun and slowly pri it off, obviously be careful not to crack the cover,
might be less daunting then putting your headlight in your oven lol
Have you tried this method on your own car? I just don't think you will be able to get an even enough heating without ruining the headlight with a heat gun. I certainly wouldn't try it on my car.

Oven is proven (and yes I have tried it on my car) and as long as you take your time with it, you will get good results.
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Bennoz wrote:I think its telling you something... they were never meant to open! :lol:
thats what she said
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if you have the element at the bottom of the oven and youre not meant to switch it on, then where would the heat come from?!!? lol
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Some ovens have 2 elements, top and bottom for more even heating.
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gpx000 wrote:
Bennoz wrote:I think its telling you something... they were never meant to open! :lol:
thats what she said
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thanks guys. i think i was being too impatient turning the oven up so high that u would think am trying to roast some chicken. how long does is usually take to bake them
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034346 wrote:thanks guys. i think i was being too impatient turning the oven up so high that you would think am trying to roast some chicken. how long does is usually take to bake them
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Raising an old thread from the dead :lol:


What if you're running a gas oven, with the open flames at the bottom of the oven with the fan rotating the heat?
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