HID upgrade question about baking housings

[geraintthomas]

Originally Posted by particlewave

A heat gun is excellent for melting/warping your lenses. Take my word for it and use an oven. Better and more even temp control.

We've got smaller ovens in the UK it won't fit. I've split headlights with heat guns before.

[particlewave]

Originally Posted by geraintthomas

We've got smaller ovens in the UK it won't fit. I've split headlights with heat guns before.

If you try to split these with a heat gun, that mistake is going to cost you $hundreds$. Heed my advice or don't. It won't affect me one bit.

It may be cheaper to try to source a decent sized oven at a scrapyard than it will be to buy new headlights.

[geraintthomas]

Originally Posted by particlewave

Heed my advice or don't. It won't affect me one bit. :

Even though that's pretty much stating the obvious, I appreciate you going out of your way to give me the option.

Either way, I can't help to wonder how splitting these with a heat gun is different to most other headlights that I've split. The principles are the same; gradually heating up the sealant to a point where it's soft enough to come apart. The plan is to try it on a scrapped, old broken pre-facelift headlamp with a heat gun before trying it on my main headlights, avoiding the costs of mistakes being made. Should be fine.

I'm glad it's not affecting you though