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| Did road debris or a rock damage your headlight? We show you how to replace the glass lens! |
While spring is on its way here, the hours of daylight are still less than the hours of darkness and many drivers spend part of their commute using their headlights. Many new cars have headlight housings made of plastic, but a lot of older cars have headlight housings made of glass which are prone to cracking to if they are struck by debris.
A small chip can quickly spread into a large crack and make night time driving hazardous for both the driver and other commuters. The crack affects the beam pattern, increasing glare for oncoming drivers. For the driver, moisture can enter the housing and short out the headlight, or the glass housing can shatter.
Our daily driver vehicle is equipped with glass headlight housings, and we recently had an errant rock create a chip on our housing which had spread to a massive crack in a few miles. By the time we got home from our work commute, the housing was threatening to completely break. Rather than pay a lot of money to have the dealership/mechanic's shop fix the headlight lens, we decided to save some money and do it ourselves.
Follow along as we show you a step-by-step tutorial on how to replace the glass lens housing of the headlight.
