Clean Headlights More Often During The Rain Season
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Melting Slicks
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Clean Headlights More Often During The Rain Season
As winter is almost here its necessary to clean your headlights more often to keep them in tip-top condition. When washing your C3 I recommend raising your headlights so they get cleaned too. Headlights have a way of getting really dirty without your knowing about it and then their performance will be far less when its needed most; driving at night.
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As winter is almost here its necessary to clean your headlights more often to keep them in tip-top condition. When washing your C3 I recommend raising your headlights so they get cleaned too. Headlights have a way of getting really dirty without your knowing about it and then their performance will be far less when its needed most; driving at night.
I do not wash any of them with the hose, especially the steel ones, but I do raise the headlights on the vette to dust them off
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Melting Slicks
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Wash C3's With Their Headlights Open
During the first few weeks of the rain season the roads are really filthy and that filth gets thrown up against the headlights; coating them with an oily residue that has to be manually removed. When washing a C3 its always best to wash it with the headlights open.
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Melting Slicks
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Thanks for the compliment. The reason I'm calling dirty headlights to your attentions is they have a way of getting awfully filthy without your knowing about it until you use them. Much like dirty windshields as they can look okay during daylight hours then at night they really show up.
Melting Slicks
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Thanks for the compliment. The reason I'm calling dirty headlights to your attentions is they have a way of getting awfully filthy without your knowing about it until you use them. Much like dirty windshields as they can look okay during daylight hours then at night they really show up.
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During the first few weeks of the rain season the roads are really filthy and that filth gets thrown up against the headlights; coating them with an oily residue that has to be manually removed. When washing a C3 its always best to wash it with the headlights open.
This is another post where you take your narrow experience and apply it to everyone. You should post this tripe in General right next to the window washing post. Do you really think everyone is this stupid?
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This is great information and a big help. Maybe you could help me with something else. I have a gauge with the letter F on the left and E on the right. The needle is moving toward the E very slowly. What do I do when it gets to E?
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As winter is almost here its necessary to clean your headlights more often to keep them in tip-top condition. When washing your C3 I recommend raising your headlights so they get cleaned too. Headlights have a way of getting really dirty without your knowing about it and then their performance will be far less when its needed most; driving at night.
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Hi,
Perhaps a retired engineer could design a system of headlight washers?!?
Maybe it could work off the windshield washer pump and reservoir, have hoses running forward in the regular vacuum hose bundle, and terminate at nozzles mounted on the headlight bezels.
Wouldn't that be cool!?
Regards,
Alan
Perhaps a retired engineer could design a system of headlight washers?!?
Maybe it could work off the windshield washer pump and reservoir, have hoses running forward in the regular vacuum hose bundle, and terminate at nozzles mounted on the headlight bezels.
Wouldn't that be cool!?
Regards,
Alan
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From: Sierra Foothills CA
Hi,
Perhaps a retired engineer could design a system of headlight washers?!?
Maybe it could work off the windshield washer pump and reservoir, have hoses running forward in the regular vacuum hose bundle, and terminate at nozzles mounted on the headlight bezels.
Wouldn't that be cool!?
Regards,
Alan
Perhaps a retired engineer could design a system of headlight washers?!?
Maybe it could work off the windshield washer pump and reservoir, have hoses running forward in the regular vacuum hose bundle, and terminate at nozzles mounted on the headlight bezels.
Wouldn't that be cool!?
Regards,
Alan
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Melting Slicks
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From: Great Plains Iowa
The curved surface of the headlights would present a problem for conventional wiper blades but not for a brush of some kind.
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Melting Slicks
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From: Great Plains Iowa
In desert areas the first rains really coat the headlights with oily road scum that later rains don't wash off and that's why I started this thread. Owners tend to forget about their headlights as "out of sight out of mind".
