At today’s MMC Tech Day I finally painted the insides of the headlight housings. I have been wanting to do this since 2004 when the Mazdaspeed Miata came out and they had the same treatment.
Came out pretty good. The icky black glue that holds the lens to the back section left behind a couple of “strings” on the lens. After I had the light all together and back on the car I went to clean it with some Goo Gone. Big mistake. It cleaned the glue right off but it also took off some of the plastic lens. I just spent a couple hours with some 2000 grit sandpaper, toothpaste and plastic polish to clean up the lens. It is still not 100% clear, I might have to get some polishing compound to bridge the toothpaste and the plastic polish.
FYI, WD-40 will take the glue off lickity-split and not “melt” the lens.
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