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Old Jul 13, 2011 | 06:53 PM
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Why cant you bake taillights?

Our tail light looks like the lens is also held with silicone to the housing?
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Old Jul 13, 2011 | 07:14 PM
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MMmmm, interesting! That I know the Tail lights have LEDs in there! Are they detachable? Maybe just leaving the Tail Light by itself with no LEDs or bulbs! Then it's would be most likely doable!

You could try by getting one on Ebay for your experiment!
 
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Old Jul 13, 2011 | 08:01 PM
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you can't bake them because they are 1 peice. In order to get to the inside of the tailight you must use a dremmel to open them up and reclose them using some sort of heavy duty adhesive. Not sure where you are from, but i know 180 custom in brooklyn offers this service.
 
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Old Jul 14, 2011 | 03:19 AM
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Old Jul 14, 2011 | 03:33 AM
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Originally Posted by pattyballs
you can't bake them because they are 1 peice. In order to get to the inside of the tailight you must use a dremmel to open them up and reclose them using some sort of heavy duty adhesive. Not sure where you are from, but i know 180 custom in brooklyn offers this service.
They stopped offering midnight tails because it was way too time/labor intensive.
 
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Old Jul 15, 2011 | 10:08 AM
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They dont use adhesive. They plastic weld the tails after tgey are done. The reason the stopped is becuse no matter how well they sealed them condensation would somtimes appear.
 
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Old Jul 16, 2011 | 10:32 AM
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hmm i've cut my tails with razor blade, and sealed it back up by carefully melting plastic with soldering iron and then a thin layer of silicone, and they dont seem to have any problems. Now they look like jdm tails that were floating around forums a while ago
I just thought it might be possible to bake them to save time on next set
here is the link to the finished product
https://g35driver.com/forums/g35-sed...ls-inside.html
 
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Old Jul 16, 2011 | 09:30 PM
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Baking then makes them chewy and unless they are basted with BBQ sauce, they become very dry.

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