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Refurbed my front fog lights!! how to now included!

Mike M

Mike M

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Ive just completed a refurbishment of my front fog lights due to them looking all discoloured internally which you could see through the lenses! Cant take the credit for the process as another guy had posted it on a rival forum. Removed the glass, primed the interior, chrome sprayed the interior, re-assembled and all for £20 + a few hours of my time. Job well worth doing and I saved £300+. I will post some photographs soon and do a little write up on how to do it for any one interested.
 
Hi Mike, definitely interested. I have cooling ducts fitted to my car but i have a pair of scruffy looking fog lamps buried somewhere in the garage. Sounds like a nice little winter weekend project. Regards Steve
 
Hopefully you will be able to see a picture of my before and after treatment fog light! This was a really easy job but does take a little time and patience and the best part is it only cost about £20 in materials. You will notice if you look at a light that the glass is glued into place and not designed to be removed so to remove the glass you need to remove the lip of grey plastic all the way around the lens which is easy to do with a sharp chisel. The glass sits in a "U" channel and the removal of the outer lip allows access so you can run a knife blade between the glass lens and the plastic body. The lens is held in place by a blue mastic type of paste which is very strong! Once you have cut through the mastic you need to pry the lens away from the body, preferably with a chisel blade which helps spread the force applied to eject the lens compared to using a screw driver which may damage the lens or the body. Once apart the boring job is to remove all the blue paste which I found best done with a stanley blade and a fine flat blade screwdriver. I then cleaned the inside of the unit with white spirits. The reflector had discolored significantly to a dirty grey as per the photo in the next post.(can only post 1 photo per message?!?) I then masked off the fog lens and used a plastic spray primer to create a bonding coat to accept the chrome spray to finish the job. I applied two coats of each spray leaving over night each time to cure. Apologies for not going into more photographic instructions; however I never thought of posting the procedure until I had finished! The final step of the procedure is to silicone the lens back onto the body, for this I used a glass bonding silicon. I think you will agree the difference in appearance is significant and £20 well spent! I cant take the credit for this procedure as a guy had posted this with a full photographic guide on 911uk all I did was put his method into practice which may be to the benefit of fellow members here.
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