208 Headlamp removal

[tubbystar]

Hi all, am wanting to remove the headlamp units from my CLK and give the inside of the lenses a good clean. Have undone all the obvious screws etc but am not sure how to actually remove the thing.

Does anyone have any experience of this?

Thanks
Rich

 

[Hi-Ho Silver]

I'm with you on this. So far i've used Brasso on the outsides and I had a look at removing the lights but there's so much stuff around them, that I didn't bother.

I look forward to reading this thread. Thanks for posting it.

 

[tubbystar]

Glad I'm not the only one then! The ones on the offside seem particularly dirty but it does look like a lot of grief to get them out.

 

[Hi-Ho Silver]

I was told today that rouge, as in the red makeup some gals plaster on their faces, is really good for buffing too. I found my dremel and a cloth buffing wheel, so i'm going to have a go tomorrow.

Any of you chaps know where I can find a bucket of rouge as the guy in Halfords was a little stumped/ missed my sense of humour totally as he strided off to look for it in the Autoglym aisle. Bless...

 

[Ted]

I think you may mean jewellers rouge

 

[N7OGP]

You will have to take the bumper off the remove the headlights

 

[Hi-Ho Silver]

Okay. that does it. If I have to dismantle the bumper, the headlights stay on...buggritt!!!

That'll be the stuff Ted; Jeweller's rouge. So now I have to go to a Jeweller in Brighton and ask them for some rouge so I can polish my headlights? Shiny-glassed headlights are becoming a very unlikely thing.

There must be another way to polish our headlights?

 

[N7OGP]

Meguiar's UK

 

[Hi-Ho Silver]

Thanks N70GP.

I'm going to try to polish them with some baking powder toothpaste first.

How you getting on Tubbystar?

 

[tubbystar]

Abandoned that particular idea for the time being.....

 

[tubbystar]

Abandoned that particular idea for the time being.....

Might have a look at the bumper tomorrow though, time and weather permitting. Anyone taken one of these off ? (and put it back again!)

Rich