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The "bullseye" crack repair kits are a clear thin glue that is injected under mild pressure into the cracked glass and fills the microscopic void of the crack, so you can hardly see it, and also seals it against water getting in and delaminating the windshield or doing further cracking as it freezes.
What Dan-O seems to be describing is an actual hole thru the headlightglass, also a bullseye crack but the rear part of the bullseye has been knocked into the interior of the headlight. The bullseye kits (at all auto parts stores and some hardware stores) wouldn't work for this, no crack to fill, and their glue is too thin to use to plug an open hole.
For this, the best of the solutions offered seems to me to be, a daub of clear silicone sealer. From the outside, use on your finger just enough to go in and maybe mushroom out a little on the inside, and wipe almost all off the outside except it wants to stick up a little just at the hole. Silicone is good for 25 years in exterior uses, if it's a good brand.
Best way to do the silicone would be, daub some on the end of a dowel and apply it thru the bulb hole, on the interior, but it would be tricky to do and not have it get on somewhere you don't want it, and hard to do with headlight in the car.
Simplest, cheapest if you can just cadge a little bit of the tape at your local Post Office, and good for a pretty long time if it's good quality tape, is just stick some clear tape over it. Also good is the idea of the headlight protective tape, but that costs more.
I'd put clear tape over it for now, and look for a sound headlight at the junkyard at my leisure.
posted by 72.73.12...
, Mon, 23 Mar 2009 05:02:41
, Sun, 22 Mar 2009 09:27:40
, Sun, 22 Mar 2009 10:55:39
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