Bug stuck in headlight
Supporting Vendor
Joined: Sep 2007
Posts: 11,216
Likes: 178
From: Pensacola Florida GO GATORS!!! www.rlsebring.com www.c6c7vette.com
St. Jude Donor '17
You ccan blast a little air between the Hi and Low beam bulbs and maybe blow him to the deeper bowls f the housing, Out of Sight Out of Mind... Or some have rigged a little vaccuum tube and worked it inbetween the same bulbs and sucked them out.
I personally have my second large bug sitting on my bezel. he's been there about a year now. We've became friends...
I personally have my second large bug sitting on my bezel. he's been there about a year now. We've became friends...
Thread Starter
Racer
Joined: Mar 2007
Posts: 377
Likes: 0
From: Holmen Wisconsin
You ccan blast a little air between the Hi and Low beam bulbs and maybe blow him to the deeper bowls f the housing, Out of Sight Out of Mind... Or some have rigged a little vaccuum tube and worked it inbetween the same bulbs and sucked them out.
I personally have my second large bug sitting on my bezel. he's been there about a year now. We've became friends...
I personally have my second large bug sitting on my bezel. he's been there about a year now. We've became friends...
So the body colored part can be removed or can I only pull a bulb out?
Racer
Joined: Mar 2009
Posts: 253
Likes: 5
From: Huntington Beach CA
Pull a bulb out will not allow access for a vacuum. Had the same problem with my '07. The only way to get mine out was remove headlight assembly and shake upside down. Not that big of a job. Google " remove c-6 headlight " that will give some pointers.
Supporting Vendor
Joined: Sep 2007
Posts: 11,216
Likes: 178
From: Pensacola Florida GO GATORS!!! www.rlsebring.com www.c6c7vette.com
St. Jude Donor '17
do a serch on Bug in Headlight. There's been a couple of members successful with vacing the bugs out. They rigged up a skinny tube and worked it past the bulb/projector into the headlight.
Body colored bezel cannot be removed while the light is together. Removing the rubber boot and bulb is about the most access you're going to get with the headlight in the car.
Body colored bezel cannot be removed while the light is together. Removing the rubber boot and bulb is about the most access you're going to get with the headlight in the car.
Supporting Vendor
Joined: Sep 2007
Posts: 11,216
Likes: 178
From: Pensacola Florida GO GATORS!!! www.rlsebring.com www.c6c7vette.com
St. Jude Donor '17
My buddy is just a shell of what it once was. Just the carcuss lying there in the inside corner on the bezel. If I had just a little more gap he'd fall down into the light. I'll be changing my lens in the near future and will take care of him then. But like I said I got the first one out and this one showed a month or two later. maybe an offspring...
Race Director
Joined: Oct 2007
Posts: 11,367
Likes: 211
From: Edgewood Washington
St. Jude Donor '11-'12-'13-'14-'15
Admit it, you like having a 'pet'.
I keep expecting you to post a pic of a headlight assembly that you've turned into an aquarium.
The perfect South Beach accessory!
I keep expecting you to post a pic of a headlight assembly that you've turned into an aquarium.
The perfect South Beach accessory!
Corvette Stories
The Best of Corvette for Corvette Enthusiasts
Top 10 Most Expensive Corvettes Ever Sold on Bring A Trailer
Brett Foote
10 Things Every Corvette Owner Needs (2026 Edition)
Michael S. Palmer
8 Most "Only Corvette Owners Understand" Quirks and Problems
Pouria Savadkouei
10 Reasons the C6 Z06 is Still A Performance Benchmark After 20 Years
Joe Kucinski
How Much Horsepower Every Corvette Engine "LOST" in 1972
Joe Kucinski
Top 10 DOs and DON'Ts for Protecting Your Convertible Top!
Michael S. Palmer
Top 10 Most Explosive Corvettes Ever Made: Power-to-Weight Ratio Ranked!
Joe Kucinski
150 hp to 1,250 hp: Every Corvette Generation Compared by the Specs That Matter
Joe Kucinski
8 Coolest Corvette Pace Cars (and Replicas) of All Time
Verdad Gallardo
Melting Slicks
Joined: Mar 2007
Posts: 3,327
Likes: 166
From: Summerton SC
Tech Contributor
I had SOME success but not totally. I drove through a torrential flash storm last fall and one of the lenses fogged up, and the fog would not go away even after leaving in the sun. So I took off the well-liner and found the rear rubber HL cover had popped off. So I put a fan up to the opening and viola, fog gone ... but dust/dirt got in there (dohhh). So I taped a 1/4" rubber tube to a shop-vac and got it in through the low-beam gap (a PITA) and was able to suck out some but not all the debris.
Likely best to remove the HL and shake it out, and it's really not that hard to do. Just search HL Removal ...
Likely best to remove the HL and shake it out, and it's really not that hard to do. Just search HL Removal ...
Supporting Vendor
Joined: Sep 2007
Posts: 11,216
Likes: 178
From: Pensacola Florida GO GATORS!!! www.rlsebring.com www.c6c7vette.com
St. Jude Donor '17