Info for people interested in clearing there headlights
What's up Altima folks, last week I cleared my "nissan" maxima headlights and I figured I would share the info, write up and pics with my fellow nissan brothers, this mod is the same for your cars. Heres the write up and a link to the pics.
2002 Orange headlight reflector removal: Info & pics
Tonight I decided to take appart my headlight housing and remove the annoying orange reflector. Heres a brief right up of what I did.
Tools: 1 hair drier
2 butter knives
1 sharp knive{swis army knife}
Silicone adhesive
First I started out by removing my headlight and bringing it into my room. Then I removed the HID ballast and all the bulbs{actually I left my HID in}. Next I grabed my hair drier and began heating up the lower right corner of the headlight. Once the glue got good and hot I grabed my knive and started pushing through the outside of the headlight capsule while constantly heating up the area I was working on with my hair drier. I worked it through a litte bit at a time. Once I made about 7 inches of progress I put my butter knive into the center of the area I cut through, doing this allowed the glue to not come back in contact and re-harden. Then with my knife I started cutting through the other side{oppisite direction from where I started}, then after doing another 8 inches of cutting I shoved another butter knive into the parameter of the headlight. From there I just continued cutting and shortly after the headlight was comming apart, I now used my butter knives as wedges and slowly{gentley too} seperated the headlight. Once the headlight was completly opened I used another butter knive to pop out the little orange refector, it just poped right out. After that I looked everything over to make sure I did not leave any stains or fingerprints inside the headlight.
Now it was time to put the headlight back together. I just re-heated the glue a little bit at a time and pushed the headlight back together.
Warning: This procedure is very dangerous, you can very easaly screw up and crack your headlight housing. The key to doing this is taking your time and looking everything over twice before doing it. If you break your headlights, don't blame me.
The pics of the procedure can be found here: http://www.5thgenmaximas.com/howto/orange reflector removal/ {thank Russ for hosting the pics}.
Also, I examined the tail lights on your altima's and just like our headlights your orange tail light reflector will pop right out.
Heres the finsished product.
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What's up Altima folks, last week I cleared my "nissan" maxima headlights and I figured I would share the info, write up and pics with my fellow nissan brothers, this mod is the same for your cars. Heres the write up and a link to the pics.
2002 Orange headlight reflector removal: Info & pics
Tonight I decided to take appart my headlight housing and remove the annoying orange reflector. Heres a brief right up of what I did.
Tools: 1 hair drier
2 butter knives
1 sharp knive{swis army knife}
Silicone adhesive
First I started out by removing my headlight and bringing it into my room. Then I removed the HID ballast and all the bulbs{actually I left my HID in}. Next I grabed my hair drier and began heating up the lower right corner of the headlight. Once the glue got good and hot I grabed my knive and started pushing through the outside of the headlight capsule while constantly heating up the area I was working on with my hair drier. I worked it through a litte bit at a time. Once I made about 7 inches of progress I put my butter knive into the center of the area I cut through, doing this allowed the glue to not come back in contact and re-harden. Then with my knife I started cutting through the other side{oppisite direction from where I started}, then after doing another 8 inches of cutting I shoved another butter knive into the parameter of the headlight. From there I just continued cutting and shortly after the headlight was comming apart, I now used my butter knives as wedges and slowly{gentley too} seperated the headlight. Once the headlight was completly opened I used another butter knive to pop out the little orange refector, it just poped right out. After that I looked everything over to make sure I did not leave any stains or fingerprints inside the headlight.
Now it was time to put the headlight back together. I just re-heated the glue a little bit at a time and pushed the headlight back together.
Warning: This procedure is very dangerous, you can very easaly screw up and crack your headlight housing. The key to doing this is taking your time and looking everything over twice before doing it. If you break your headlights, don't blame me.
The pics of the procedure can be found here: http://www.5thgenmaximas.com/howto/orange reflector removal/ {thank Russ for hosting the pics}.
Also, I examined the tail lights on your altima's and just like our headlights your orange tail light reflector will pop right out.
Heres the finsished product.
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