Headlight Condensation, What to do? Options

[mikew04]

how hard is it to take off the bumper? anything i should know?

[bonzaisushi]

mani have bout a inch of water 2..... i figure if it fills up enough ill put a fish in there....

[saleeka]

[mikew04]

no kidding. there are 3 in the fender, damn impossible to get to. and the plastic clips that you unscrew a little, then they pop out? yah, those are about the most un-reliable things in the world. I finally got the bumper off, got the light out, used a little bleach where the water left stains, and im gonna seal it up with some silicone. hopefully this will work, and ill just have to drive without the bumper cover for a few days.

[celicaman96]

Here's what I did before I eventually had to replace my high beam...

Take a shop vac (or a regular vaccuum, but it WILL get ruined). Duct tape a good length of plastic tubing (about .25" in diameter and about a foot long - you can get it at any hardware store) to the end of the vac hose to make a seal. Take out your bulb, stick the tubing into the headlight and turn on the vaccuum. If the tubing you get is firm enough you can run it all around the inside of the light and up against the inner part of the lense where the condensation builds up; yet it needs to be a little flexible too. Problem solved, no bumper removal.

PS - I ruined my moms vaccuum doing this, it was a regular vac and I sucked a ton of water with it. Use a wet/dry shop vac

[sinner96ST]

I have this happen in my passenger side high beam all the time... it's not a lot of water, just some condensation.. it eventually evaporates on its own. A buddy of mine had a tiburon (97 i think) and it had water in the headlight casing after only a few weeks straight from the factory.

[UT_Celica_GT]

I have condensation in my driver side high beam too! I'm glad I'm not the only one. I was thinking about the hair dryer idea lmao. It is starting to get on my nerves. it's not a lot of water, just condensation on the front of it.

[celicarocker]

i have some inches.... i was thinking about putting a fish in there.... that would be a nice mod... i could mod a little door on the inside so i could feed it...

[mikew04]

you could have a whole habitat in there. like those things where you put soil, grass, plants and stuff, and then you can have frogs and salamanders live in there! hmm, i forget what they are called.... damn i should have left that water in there...

[Pali_playa]

ecosystems?

[mikew04]

Thats it!