Hey Guys I Really Need Help,

I Had A Set Of Bats Eyelids On My Coupe. I Got Tired Of My Lids And Took Em Off. I Used All Proper Removal Steps. Now Basicly The Clue From The Lids Staind My Headlamp And When I Tried To Get It Off Nothing Helped Even Googone. The More I Scrubed The More I Ruined My Lamps. What Do I Do I Guess I Need New Headlights.
Does Anyone Know How I Could Just Replace The Front Lens Because Technicly Its Just The Clear Plastin On My Lights That Ruined Everything Else Is Perfect. Please Help And If Im ****ed Where Can Iget Headlights For A Good Price Not Including The Xenons Or The Wiring . Just The Plastic

 

Buff it with some mag/chrome pollish. It should be as good as new... or at least alot better.

 

I Tried Chrome Whel Polish No Luck, I Tried Waxing It No Lux. Basicly The Googone Made The Glue From The Lids Spread Then I Tried Scrubing It And When It Hardend It Basicly Melted Into The Plastic So Half Of My Headlight Has A Faded Frosted Look With Many Lumps And Scrached Someone Plkease Help What Do I Do To Make Them Clear Again. It Looks Like U Took A Brillo Brush And Scrubed Them For A While Ahhhhhhhhhhhh New Lamps Cost So Much Im So Devistated

 

Basicly It Looks Like Wither I Scrathched The Hell Out Of My Light By Scrubbing Or This Chemical **** Made Another Super Hard Shell On My Lens. Ahhh Ill Take Pix Tomaro So U Can See Thanx Guys Sosososossoso Much

 

The key with goo gone is after apraying it, wipe it down, get another rag or towel sparay more goo gone. This will help absorb the glue before it spreads. Repeat process until all residue is gone. Also, a squeegy will do the trick after applying goo gone.

Bat™

 

You can just use high grit sandpaper to get rid of everything...then buff with plastic polish.

 

I went thru the same issue about a month or 2 ago...

I used that goo gone stuff and it did exactly as you described...

YOu have 3 choices...
1) Wet Sand: Use a very fine grit and wet sand it out, and polish the headlamp afterwards. It won't be like new, but it'll be smooth and look a hell of a lot better.

2) Buy a new headlamp of eBay. You cannot just buy the lens part. Basically, you're gonna have to follow the steps of the headlight retrofit. Use heat gun, screwdriver around and slowly/carefully remove the lens. (THIS IS A PITA!!!!)

3) Claim warranty or buy a new headlamp (~$800).

good luck...

 

Citrus based cleaners work best. The use of a squeegy really helped me get the residue off a friends headlamp.

Bat™

 

ok guys you really helped so im going to auto zone i think i am gonna buy a wet sand. a mag wheellcleaner, and some plastic polish. anything else i need guys?

 

If you haven’t already bought everything - here's another product suggestion: Meguire's Plastix... I use it on my lenses (pre and post Bat Overlays). Works well for cleaning, removing haze/cloudiness and removing fine scratches. As far as removing adhesive, 3M makes a spay product that works well (it might be the goo gone stuff you are referring to).

BTW, if you wet sand be sure to use REAL fine grit! Probably 2000 or higher. I would suggest trying to use adhesive remover and polish/cleaner like Plastix before sanding. In fact I’m not sure I would sand – but that’s just me.

Good luck.

 

i used the blue magic plastic cleaner and polish. i used the mag cleaner., iwet sannded it no help. it made it a little better but still my plastinc was eaten away. i took my car to a specialist and he said it wasnt the goo gone that killed me he said the eyelids adhesive glue/sticker ate away my plastic when put under the sun or heat. and i live in NewYork and boy was this summer hot, he said i probably need a new lamp. so unfortunatly it wasnt the googone that killed me, im so devistated . who knows where i can get a housing or healdight assemply with out the hids for a good price?

 

This only applies to the eyelid and not the overlay, I hope?

 

Trust me, goo-gone can really be dangerous w/ any friction. I used it to remove the adhesive from my stock badges, w/ my bare fingers.. and w/out realizing, it rubbed about 1/16th of an inch (thick) of skin off my thumbtips... that was a painful lesson....

Lesson learned, don't use goo-gone on any plastics w/ any sort of friction. It WILL ruin plastic, amongst other things. You should have realized that goo-gone is just about the same as paint thinner, an abrasive.

 

watever where can i get new or used headlight assembly/housing for a good price

 

do you think a clear bra would frost the plastic in the same way??