Keeping bugeye headlights clean!!??
08 November 2011, 01:12 PM
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Keeping bugeye headlights clean!!??
It's the time of year when the roads are more damp and dirty which means a fair amount of spray kicks up onto the headlights.
I don't seem to have the problem on other cars but for some reason the headlights on all the bugeyes I've owned seem to get dirty really quickly and consequently, the light output drops massively.
Is there some reason why bugeye headlights seem to suffer from this problem? or is just down to poor reflector design meaning that it only takes a little dirt to reduce the output to candle-power?
Was planning on giving the lenses a good polish and then sealing with something like RainX in the hope that this might stop the muck from sticking so much but if anyone has other suggestions/solutions, I'd be very interested to hear them.
I don't seem to have the problem on other cars but for some reason the headlights on all the bugeyes I've owned seem to get dirty really quickly and consequently, the light output drops massively.
Is there some reason why bugeye headlights seem to suffer from this problem? or is just down to poor reflector design meaning that it only takes a little dirt to reduce the output to candle-power?
Was planning on giving the lenses a good polish and then sealing with something like RainX in the hope that this might stop the muck from sticking so much but if anyone has other suggestions/solutions, I'd be very interested to hear them.
08 November 2011, 01:15 PM
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It's the time of year when the roads are more damp and dirty which means a fair amount of spray kicks up onto the headlights.
I don't seem to have the problem on other cars but for some reason the headlights on all the bugeyes I've owned seem to get dirty really quickly and consequently, the light output drops massively.
Is there some reason why bugeye headlights seem to suffer from this problem? or is just down to poor reflector design meaning that it only takes a little dirt to reduce the output to candle-power?
Was planning on giving the lenses a good polish and then sealing with something like RainX in the hope that this might stop the muck from sticking so much but if anyone has other suggestions/solutions, I'd be very interested to hear them.
I don't seem to have the problem on other cars but for some reason the headlights on all the bugeyes I've owned seem to get dirty really quickly and consequently, the light output drops massively.
Is there some reason why bugeye headlights seem to suffer from this problem? or is just down to poor reflector design meaning that it only takes a little dirt to reduce the output to candle-power?
Was planning on giving the lenses a good polish and then sealing with something like RainX in the hope that this might stop the muck from sticking so much but if anyone has other suggestions/solutions, I'd be very interested to hear them.
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Have thought about retro fitting some from a classic but might be a bit of a faff.
Will keep an eye out.
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