Headlight condensation?!? What the? How to remedy?!?

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MarkEmark
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Now that the real stuff is outta the way (timing chain), I can focus on the aesthetics. My headlight has been "fogged up" for about a week now. It's only the passenger side one. It has a bunch of condensation/water in the inside of it, and it looks like sh1t. I thought it'd eventually go away. I could have sworn our headlights are a closed system--so how the heck did condensation get in there?What should I do to remedy it? I remember that I've tried taking the headlight cover off once before and I was unsuccessful--how does it come apart, just prying it?

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Has this ever happened to anyone else, or is my case the unfortunate anomaly?


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To take it apart you need to heat the entire assembly, try sunlight on a warm day, hair dryer should do it, or try baking it at 100F for 10 min

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Son of a b1tch.

Why does nissan have to make things so complicated? If their object was to make it air-tight, they failed.

Anyone know what caused this, and why it's only my passenger side headlight?

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it might just be build up like the eclipses get. someone did a really nice write up on how to remove and prevent it using this polish.

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Could ya find this write up and post it?!? :)


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