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Fail Hard: Baking car headlights

Monday, April 12th, 2010

Yes, this has fail written all over it. I’m into modifying cars, I like to make mine stand out from the other cars on the road. One thing I tried to do at one point was to bake my headlights. Sounds weird, but stay with me. The point is to soften the glue on the headlight surrounds, break it open, remove the ugly orange reflector piece, then glue it all back together.

This has been done successfully by thousands of people and instructions are all over the internet. I decided to tackle it. I followed the instructions exactly! It was going great, I went in the other room, but the timer was set. BEEP! The timer goes off and I went to open the oven to see…my headlights had melted. Apparently since I live at a higher altitude, it changes the time a bit and I’m supposed to sit and watch it. Therein lies the problem. I then had to spend $800 plus overnight shipping to get new headlights back in my car. Headlights belong on cars, not in ovens!

-Trent