taking apart headlights Options

[red_94gts]

has anybody ever done this by putting them in the oven? im thinking about the angel eyes. but ive heard that they change colour and smell bad after its done. what about boiling them? does this work better? any input would be appreciated

[94gts]

anytime you do a mod like this you take a risk, take it slow cause the last thing you need is to ruin your headlights. Here is some info from a 7th gen site but it still applies

this was taken from everythingcelica.com :

The way I got the headlights apart was by heating an oven up to 300 degrees then turning off the oven. After the oven is off i put the headlight into the oven with a towel below it so that the iron bars dont burn into the headlights or melt it. Make sure the oven is off when you put it in there, you don't want to cook the headlights, just warm them up. Let the headlight sit in the oven for roughly 10-15 minutes. The best way to get the headlights apart is by working and prying apart the outside of the headlight that would face the outside of the car, not the engine side. I've seen suggestions of using a knife, that would probably work better than trying to pry it. There is ALOT of epoxy in there so you need it to be warm to soften up the glue and then use a knife/prying device to get it apart. Keep working at it, it may take awhile to get it all the way done with putting it into the oven several times.