Removing water/condensation from TYC headlights.

[confuseid]

I got these name-brand TYC headlights.
name-brand. means something?

I drove, during heavy rain, into a flooded bridge. The front end of my car was submerged.

Now, a week later, there is still moisture and condensation in the front part of the inside of my headlights! My headlights work perfectly, but that moisture looks really bad and I wanna get it out. I thought it would go away, I've left my car out in like 80 degree weather where I thought it would evaporate or something, but NOTHIN!

How can I remove it? Do I have to take the front plastic shield part of the headlight off? I don't know if I can, because there's some kind of rubber seal on the clips that hold it onto the headlight.

Or do I have to send it back to TYC (if they'll take it) and get one sent back to me?

 

[Sakuradrops808B]

How bad is it?

Here's a quick fix.

1.Open hood, leave it latched.
2.Take out light bulbs (hi-beam and low-beam)
3.Get a heat gun (or hair dryer?blower)
4.Turn on the gun.
5.Now aim the gun at the outside lens of the headlight. Slow weaving it side to side. At a safe distance that plastic would melt, about 1 foot.
6.Slow you will see the headlight clearing up, might take time depends on the severity.
7.Then do on the other affected lamp.


OR

1.Do steps 1-2 from above method.
2.Leave overnight and pray that it will go away before bedtime. And hope you have a covered garage.

 

[pattywak]

One question - why did you drive into water deep enough to submerge your front end?

 

[johnnydinh701]

yea since the water seemed to be really high up by your headlights, did u almost submerge your SRI

 

[confuseid]

It was really dark and for some reason my name brand HID headlights don't give me **** for luminosity...weird isn't it? (I replaced TYC halogens w/ HID setup)

Anyway, I didn't mean to drive it into that much water lol, so I backed out pretty quick. Johnny I would suppose that it would have submerged my SRI, but I got home and my entire engine bay was dry. I guess all my seals did the trick...

Sakura I'm gonna try option #2. If that doesn't work, I'll go with option #1. I can't take out my headlight bulbs though, because they're aftermarket HID I had to create a fastening to make them screwed in to the headlight so it wouldn't move.

How bad is it? It's not like it's full of water, but there is a lot of moisture on the outside edge of the inner headlight. It may 'reflect' beams from my projectors in stray directions, so it could be considered a safety hazard.

Isn't melting the plastic on my headlights a bad thing? I don't water to get in there at a later time...

 

[talontsiawd]

I'd just wait until the weather gets better. I got minor fogging in the winter with my DIY backhousing. Being in cali, we always get some warm weather after it rains. So i found only after week or more of heavy rain that my headlights get moisture. A day or two of nice weather and they are good. I plan on resealing them but if i were you, i would just let them dry out (they have a vent), and see if it comes back. If it does, you should reseal. If not, you saved yourself time by waiting.

 

[confuseid]

So the hair blower trick didn't work, I Tried it for about ten minutes.
It's been about two weeks, and on many days, the weather has been perfect. warm, sunny, and still no improvement.

Here are some pictures, anyone else have any other suggestions? Does anyone know if TYC carries a warranty where I can send mine back and get new ones?

I tried far away for about 5 minutes, but it didn't do anything so I tried way up close, as you can see from the picture.

Distance used from passenger headlamp.

Passenger Side Headlamp

Moisture on Passenger Side Headlamp

Driver's Side Headlamp

 

[Sakuradrops808B]

sorry dude, maybe because its a projector and not the conventional headlight. I mean less air travels directly, or in other words its more enclosed.

 

[jdmaccord6]

try getting a couple silica gel packets and throwing them in there. I have them in my headlights just sitting in the bottom after i did my retrofit to keep moisture out. You can find them just about anywhere...

 

[confuseid]

How do you open it