How Do I get the taillights apart?!! - Honda Prelude Forum

caz · 02-11-2004, 06:53 PM

I got some aftermarket taillight and I need to get them apart to modify them, Whats the best way to get them apart? Ive heard cooking them in an oven, how exactly do you do this with out melting them? The adhesive is gray in color if that helps.

Thanks

Rapture · 02-11-2004, 07:36 PM

i used a heat gun.

$30 at a local hardware store

CrazieLude · 02-11-2004, 08:06 PM

put them in the oven, preheat at around the lowest temp. put them in for around 5 min at a time, then pry them apart. Thats what I did.

Caz, no offence to this at all...but I read this and was like what?! he can get a JRSC to fit on his 4th gen, but pulling apart tails...hehe.

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MR.CLIFFORD · 02-11-2004, 08:33 PM

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Originally posted by CrazieLude
Caz, no offence to this at all...but I read this and was like what?! he can get a JRSC to fit on his 4th gen, but pulling apart tails...hehe.

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Somethings you have to be delicate with. But funny.... I thought the same thing

caz · 02-11-2004, 08:35 PM

Ya I know, I thought about that before I made the post, lol but I was feeling lazy and didnt want to mess around with release agents and all the other BS so I thought I would just see how everyone else got theirs apart. Did you put them on a cookie sheet or anything? I just thought they would melt sitting on the rack?

caz · 02-11-2004, 08:39 PM

I can work with metal - but wood and plastic! Im not a carpenter!,lol, now if your talking about C4 plastic im real good with that!

ExodusFX · 02-11-2004, 09:04 PM

I just used a heat gun as well. It was a slow methodical process.

CrazieLude · 02-11-2004, 09:51 PM

i put them on a cookie sheet.

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caz · 02-11-2004, 11:17 PM

lol, my roomates would crap their pants if they opened the oven door and found taillights in there. I should leave my camcorder out for entertainment purposes.

MidNKight-lude · 02-11-2004, 11:41 PM

haha dooooo it, but hey did you make a kit for the h23 lude yet?

Bertico78 · 02-12-2004, 03:53 PM

funny, i just took my stock tails apart last night to modify them as well. Used a blowdryer...about 35 mins for each

if you use one, just go slow and don't pry on the outer (most visible) edge of the light with a screwdriver, so you don't risk chipping the red lens.

4bidden · 02-12-2004, 07:46 PM

I used the oven on about 250 or something. I set them on a cookie sheet that had a towel on it.

I've yet to put them back together (2 sets)

h22 bb6 · 02-12-2004, 08:24 PM

In an oven it only takes them about two minutes to heat up, right?

caz · 02-13-2004, 12:30 AM

Sure jeremy, your just tryin to get me to burn the house down!, lol

brendon2k · 02-13-2004, 03:17 PM

I used a cookie sheet as well.

FullyLudedSi · 02-14-2004, 04:15 PM

ok so in an oven, on 250, on a cookie sheet, but for how long? and how do you put them back together?

vipastyle · 02-14-2004, 04:51 PM

Put em together the same way. Heat em back up and push them togther. The adhesive should go back together, at least they did with my headlights.

Search for the 5th gen write up on black housing headlights for good instructions on seperation and putting them back together. Same concept for tailights.