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 Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2010 4:13 pm |
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Location: Derby, UK
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Just a little heads up for anyone suffering with condensation in any of their light fittings.
Rather then spend ages removing lights, remove the majority of the water with a hair dryer then pop a few packets of Silica Gel in the unit to soak up the rest of the moisture. It worked a treat for my Crystal headlights.
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Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2010 4:31 pm |
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how do you get it out?? 
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Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2010 4:36 pm |
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This will work for a while but what happens when
eventualy the silica-gel gets saturated and looses
it's moisture absorbing function?
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Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2010 4:39 pm |
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| bolly92 wrote: |
| how do you get it out?? |
you don't place it in the reflector part of the light, pop it behind the where the bulb clips are.
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Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2010 4:40 pm |
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| V9977 wrote: |
This will work for a while but what happens when
eventualy the silica-gel gets saturated and looses
it's moisture absorbing function? |
As long as the moisture has been soaked up and the seal is well... sealed, the moisture shouldn't return. But if it does, you heat the packets in the oven to 120 and they'll work all over again.
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Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2010 4:44 pm |
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| danhodson wrote: |
| V9977 wrote: |
This will work for a while but what happens when
eventualy the silica-gel gets saturated and looses
it's moisture absorbing function? |
As long as the moisture has been soaked up and the seal is well... sealed, the moisture shouldn't return. But if it does, you heat the packets in the oven to 120 and they'll work all over again. |
OK, that sounds good to me.
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| 1.4i, 2001, 3-door, China Blue
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Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2010 6:24 pm |
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i just found leaving the cover off at the back worked fine
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Posted: Wed Jul 21, 2010 1:25 am |
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| Rob2859 wrote: |
| i just found leaving the cover off at the back worked fine |
It didn't work for me, the moisture just came back as the temperature returned to that of outside the engine bay.
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Posted: Wed Jul 21, 2010 1:38 am |
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good tip! 1 of my angel eyes started misting up a while back so i just put my lights on to heat them up, i'll try this if it returns.
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Posted: Wed Jul 21, 2010 1:42 am |
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| spike_202 wrote: |
| good tip! 1 of my angel eyes started misting up a while back so i just put my lights on to heat them up, i'll try this if it returns. |
Turning the lights on worked for me but it often returned over night when the temperature dropped. Just been out to check if its returned and with the gel in there is no sign of moisture at all.
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Posted: Wed Jul 21, 2010 1:58 am |
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| spike_202 wrote: |
| good tip! 1 of my angel eyes started misting up a while back so i just put my lights on to heat them up, i'll try this if it returns. |
just what I used to do with my fogs 
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Posted: Fri Jan 21, 2011 4:35 pm |
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thanks for tip hope it works
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Posted: Fri Jan 21, 2011 4:36 pm |
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Ive got 8 industrial sized ones in my car atm to stop the windows fogging over night. Works a treat! They are like 20cm by 10cm
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| My Powerflow is quite loud but then again it's on ITBs and has a decat. |
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Posted: Fri Jan 21, 2011 4:41 pm |
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i am going to get loads from work tomo  haha my car is guna be stacked with em top to bottom lol
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