The Broken Fiat Club

I've watch some youtube clips on heating up the headlights in an oven to separate the glue that holds them together. Has anyone tried this on a Fiat headlight ? If so how hot and for how long ? There are so many little parts and wiring in the Fiat headlights that I'm a little hesitant about heating them up. I'm waiting on the glue to come in so I thought I would get a jump on this mod.

I know Bryan at NGEN Performance has done this

ok, thanks Paul

After trying everybody else's way on getting them apart, I tried mine. I cut around the light with a Dremel tool where I could. You can't get to all of it. Then tried heating it to 220 degrees for 20 minutes. Still no go. Then back to the oven for 20 minutes at 240 degrees. It pulled apart easily. I spilt blood, spoke in tongues, and fought this half the day. I'm doing the other one tomorrow. I'm going to try just the heat first.

sportfan wrote: ↑Sat Jun 20, 2020 8:55 pm After trying everybody else's way on getting them apart, I tried mine. I cut around the light with a Dremel tool where I could. You can't get to all of it. Then tried heating it to 220 degrees for 20 minutes. Still no go. Then back to the oven for 20 minutes at 240 degrees. It pulled apart easily. I spilt blood, spoke in tongues, and fought this half the day. I'm doing the other one tomorrow. I'm going to try just the heat first.

Yeah as I understand they're really quite stubborn. I'd be afraid of frosting the plastic with the heat required.

I tried heat on the second one first and it didn't help. I cut around the light with the Dremel Tool in the bottom outside corner except at the lock tabs. I then heated it to 265 degrees several times and it came apart. The next problem is the special rubber sealant I bought to seal them back together needs to be heated to 265 degrees. So far all the rattle can paint I've looked at says not to exceed 200 degrees. Some of the clips I viewed on redoing the headlights talks about resealing them airtight to avoid condensation. These headlights have two factory air vents built into them. I hope to finish this project tomorrow.

The paints for engine bays and brake calipers have much higher heat tolerance (less colors of course).

I'm not sure how well high heat paint sticks to plastic.

I finally got done today with the headlights. I'm looking at the turn signals think they may be next.

Nicely done!

Now you just need some matching DRLs....