The Wizard

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Anyone ever buzz off those 3 little nubs on the face of headlight?

If so, how did you do it? With a dremel? or?

How did it turn out? How did you polish the area to smooth it out and hide any imperfections? Pics would be great

Fakie J Farkerton

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Those add 5whp.

schmellyfart

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Fixed

DennisMik

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Those "nubs" are there so the headlights cab be aimed with a machine. When you take them off, you will have to aim the headlights manually. No big thing, unless your state inspection checks with a machine.

NickSm

I filed those nubs off of both my 98 and 99 so that I could easily polish/restore the headlight plastic. I use a pretty rough file until I got basically even with the rest of the surrounding plastic, from there I used a 3M headlight restore kit to finish sanding them off and polish the headlight. One problem that can happen and unfortunately you won’t know until you do it. Not all of the nubs are created equal, out of the 12 that I sanded down one had too much of the headlight plastic pulled into the mold during casting. So after sanding I was left with a hole about the size of the lead in a #2 pencil, I fill the hole with clear epoxy. It turned out fine with a little extra $ for the epoxy and time to take the headlight out. I see if I can find my before and after pics.


I couldn't find the before pic. As you can see there is a little distortion where the nubs were but IMO it's much easier to clean and polish which is what I was after.

Amerikaner83

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i used the yellow sandpaper that comes with the 3m restore kit..NBD and it looks pretty good...but I only did one of them (it was accidental)

ChrisMan287

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I used a dremel when I had eyelids way back when.

eddie982

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i tried the stupid way, tried to chisel them off with a flathead and hammer aaaand found it impossible, lol.

S1cTech

I used an oh yeah. I bought aftermarket headlights lol

jfactor

Clearly you didn't do it on stock headlights Nick, since the stockers are glass, not plastic.

Wizard, I haven't seen a shop use one of the alignment tools these nubs are made for in years. I've always been able to successfully eyeball the alignment using nothing more than the ground and a wall.

jcap

I used a grinding bit then a sanding bit for a dremle then cleaned them and tinted them came out pretty good

NickSm

Really, Iv'e never seen a glass headlight for this vehicle. I wish mine were glass, maybe I need to hit the classifieds. Do the glass headlights still have an issue with yellowing? All of the glass headlights Iv'e dealt with in the past only ever have a problem with pitting.

ChrisMan287

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Not entirely true.

'95-'96 headlights are glass. '97-'99 headlights are plastic.

No you don't. They're flutted glass lenses.

S1cTech

um my 98 stock ones were glass and I replaced them with black trimmed glass ones as well.

DennisMik

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Like ChrisMan said, plastic was used starting in 97. The previous owner of your car must have changed them.

The Wizard

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Thanks for the input guys, much appreciated.

I had no idea those were for aiming purposes with a machine. I figured they were just part of the molding process. Here in CA, we don't have any inspections for headlights, brake lights, brakes etc, just emission testing..so no harm in removing them.

Shift_A32B

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My 97' had glass headlights...

NickSm

So, now the question is paper or plastic... I mean glass or plastic Wizard and are they stock?

Nealoc187

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i have never seen a 95-96 with plastic nor a 97-99 with glass unless a swap was done. anyone who has such has aftermarket headlights methinks.

The Wizard

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Yes, the Max I'm referring to is a 98 and the headlights are plastic.