darklegend06

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Well, to start off, I searched already...

Well today in Chicago we are having the worst weather of the year, besides snow. The streets of Chicago are flooded with water, and I had to drive through some of the floods and now I have condensation/water in my headlights and corner lights.

Do you recommend taking apart the headlights and corner lights to dry them out, or let it sit for couple of days to dry them out?

njmaxseltd

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Either way works, take the bulbs out and leave it parked in the sun.
Should clear up in about a day.

JtzMax

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pull the bulbs, get a hair dryer and blow hot air in there to evaporate the condensation. It could be that you don't have a good seal anymore on the lense. Hard to say for sure. Also possible that you just got water too the bulb and that seal didn't hold.

Anyway ... I bought my Max in Streemwood .... nice area, kinda ritcy. Expect more rain ... Ike is not gonna let anyone off easy. hahahah F'n weather!

Snypa

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i agree, either way will work. If you want it done fast, do that^^^

ChrisMan287

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darklegend06

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THe hair dryer method didn't work.

I had a lot of water in every light housing.
So I just shoved them in the oven and cooked them, and cleaned them out.
While I was doing that, I came across something I wanted to do for awhile.

Thanks everyone for helping out.

I think we went over this in some other thread.... about you getting you car in streamwood. Like your g/f found it on craigs list or something???

JtzMax

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Oh well ... worth a try. Did the oven work ok? I wonder if there is a way to get a better seal around the bulb?

darklegend06

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The oven worked well.　　And it was my first time opening up my head lights, and all went well.

Maybe to get a better seal around the bulb is to get new rubber washers from like homedepot?

JtzMax

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Glad the oven worked ok for you. As for the seal around the bulbs, I think you are onto something. Either rubber washers or sillicone. Just sucks that it happened in the first place.

darklegend06

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Sillicone would probably be a bad idea, especially if you want to take out the bulb when it burns out.

Also how often does the headlight take in water.
Only when Ike comes and hits us.