I'me sure you could try to whole oven thing like people do to take their tails apaprt, but I haven't heard of anyone doing it to their headlights. You might as well try it, you might save urself a couple hundred bucks. Even if it doesn't work, no real loss.

 

Honda headlamps and tail lamps are one piece assemblies. They are designed, sealed, and put together that way at the factory to eliminate the possibility of moisture, condensation, and premature burnout of lamps. You could break the assembly appart, but be prepared for a mess, and you probably won't get it back together the way it should be. People I know have tried to do that with the tail lamps for those stupid altezza modifications and other tacky things they do these days, only to find out they messed their assemblies up and can't put them back together tight.

My advice is this: if the yellowing bothers you enough to spend 250.00 to get rid of it, do it. If not, don't bother and leave it yellow.

Me personally I would spend the money to get a new assembly.

 

word to that... i would get a new headlight as well...dont waste your time opening it and you might end of messing it up.. but if your willing to try...than go for it... be my guess...tell us how it turns out....

 

Wait, so if my headlight goes out are you telling me I can't just replace the bulb, and that another headlight assembly is the only option? I thought the bulbs were replaceable, and if that's the case, how can they be sealed one piece assemblies?

 

bulbs are replaceable, and pretty easy to do. Unless you need to actual assembly itself, you can replace whatever you need fairly easily.

 

Okay, don't even bother disassembling the yellowed headlight, because that is a stain, not residue. you cannot clean it. and yes, a bulb is simple to replace.

 

To replace the bulb, all you have to do is pull the rubber seal from the back of it (behind the light) and remove the lamp from the socket. That's easy. But the entire assembly is sealed and really not designed to be taken appart.

 

what causes the yellow stain and is it always on the inside? it's freaking annoying, to have a sweet ass looking clean car and one yellowed light. it's like that scene in Spiderman when Kirsten Dunst's close up is ruined by that yellow tooth.

 

I've had some luck getting rid of some of the yellowing by using ScratchX on the light. It's not perfect (my yellowing is on the outside) but it's better than it was.

 

wth is scratch x?