Posts Tagged ‘ headlight ’

Most every car you find on the road today is made with clear, plastic headlight lenses. You will not see glass headlights on cars made since the early 1990′s. This is because glass headlights break easily in car accidents and the glass shatters everywhere. The auto industry found plastic headlights to be better constructed...
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I drive a recent model year Pontiac GTO and my wife has a Honda Odyssey minivan. Both of these vehicles were suffering from the same cloudy, foggy headlight condition. the headlight lenses themselves had become yellow and cloudy and you could definitely tell when driving at night that the headlights weren’t as bright as...
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Are you thinking of upgrading your car from halogen to HID headlights? Do you know what is involved in this change? Be careful. There are after market headlight bulbs marketed as being HID when in fact they are not. They may be slightly brighter then regular halogen bulbs or they may have a blue...
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I am a mechanic at University Volvo located on North Tryon Street in North Charlotte. If I have to say one thing about Volvo is that they definitely produce cars that keep us very busy in the service area. There’s almost always something going wrong with Volvos, but please keep buying them so I...
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If your headlights are dim or not as brightly lit at night then you may need to replace the headlight bulbs. With so many different headlight bulbs available by different manufacturers is important to know what the differences are and to do a headlight bulb comparison. This will help ensure that you get the...
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Are the headlight lenses and bulbs on your car properly aimed? This may sound like a stupid question but it really isn’t. It may actually help save your life. You see, improperly aimed headlight lenses or units will usually cause the light to shine either too low or too high. This can cause the...
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All cars that are made nowadays come with sealed plastic headlights. The problem with these headlights is that the seals tend to go bad over time and the headlights themselves can crack allowing moisture to enter the headlight unit. This moisture looks really ugly inside headlight lines and it also reduces the lifespan of...
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Most of us when our headlight bulbs burn out, just go and get the cheapest halogen replacement bulb at a local AutoZone or even Wal-Mart without putting much consideration into the bulbs durability, brightness, field of vision and effectiveness.  We just go buy the cheapest thing, put it in there and drive.  But just like the advancement...
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Have you noticed how some vehicles seem much brighter with their lights on at night than others?  Some really light up the road in front of themselves whereas others seem more dim.  Yes, it is possible that this could be due to cloudy headlight lenses which is a rampant problem today, but we will talk...
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