You folks are still taking a hot soldering iron to a perfectly good set of expensive headlights, made of plastic, to get rid of an internal amber lense, that never bothered you....
I see links to my stuff and Henry's. My Boxstir "claim to fame" is to come up with the name "amberectomy." After I was banned from ppbb 7 years ago I registered on German and UK Boxster message boards.
Back then, on one of the German boards, there was a post about melting plastic with a soldering iron put into the headlight, or something like that. Since I do not read German I used a translator and could not figure out exactly what the Germans were doing. With the translator I could understand only about 1/3rd of the German words. And there were no pictures posted to shed any light on what they were doing with a soldering iron.
Then I met local Boxster owner Henry, who is Dutch, and Henry reads and speaks German, and figured out what the Germans were talking about. Then Henry did the operation on his own car. Then I introduced Henry to another local Boxster owner, Raman, who also wanted the operation. The pictures you see in the links are the ones I took of Dr. Henry doing the procedure on Raman's car.
The operations were a success, so I had to give it a name - amberectomy it was. Then the amberectomy procedure got picked up on the US Boxster boards.
All these years later Dr. Henry is still in practice. His last operation was a few months ago at a local work on cars days held at his house. This time the patient was a 996 owner, and the owner's back is in the picture. I told him not to look while Dr. Henry operated.
And that is the amberectomy history, if anyone cares. Prior to that I coined the term "cupholderectomy," but that is another story.
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