Boiling Beats Baking (For fog lense removal)!!

[sjmamiller]

At least for removing your old fog lenses it does!

After much frustration with baking my fogs to remove the lense, I decided to boil them. Here is what I recommend:

1) Get pot big enough to set the fogs in (lense side down)
2) Fill with enough water to just cover the old lense and lip (approx 2 inches)
3) Bring water to a rolling boil withot fogs in it (water boils at 212f)
4) Remove from heat
5) Add fog light
6) Remove after 5 min
7) Pry lense off.

Note: You may need to put it back in the water 1 or 2 more times as it starts to cool off when you are prying. Get the water boiling again first and only keep it in for 2 minutes at a time.

[TotalEclipse31]

Thank you so much. My new fogs are supposed to be on their way.

[Sammy Z]

Use caution, the silver reflective surface inside the housing comes off real easy. Don't use windex. Don't rub hard. I wiped my with windex and noticed the silver started to come off.

[CTSV_510]

boiling? I never would have thought to do that.

When I baked mine, it took me a while to get the first lense off. I took it out of the oven and put it back in the oven about 8 times before I finally got the lense off.

I then put the second housing in the oven and started cleaning the new lenses. Then I started working on cutting the metal divider between the fog and DRL on the first housing. I finally got finished with cutting the divider up and remembered... I LEFT THE OTHER HOUSING IN THE OVEN!!!

the second lense came right off no problem

[LeftyCTS]

Will this work for the side markers? I want to put on some tinted ones.

[Sammy Z]

The side markers on glued with a different glue. I wound up hitting the amber lense with a hammer and pulling the pieces off. I treid the oven and heat gun first, the hammer was the fastest.

[nopi08]

Really? You can just smash the amber on the sidemarkers? Your not going to break the "housing"??

[Sammy Z]

Use a small hammer. The housing is pretty tough but don't over do it. I think the lense is heat-fused to the housing, it's not like the soft glue used in the fog assy. Anyway, a small hammer or the the head of a pair or channel lock plyers should be enough force to break the amber part.

[87vertgt]

Nice!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Haa


man, that pic is worth a thousand words!!!

[sjmamiller]

mmmmm tasty!! Anyone else try it?