[s-cars] Headlights aging?

[Kirby Smith]

Very Dramatic.  The haze is on the internal reflectors as well as on the
projection lenses.  The high beams are less affected.  The keys to
cleaning are:

Have a way to grind down the epoxy retaining the lens retainer clips.
Don't use anything but water on the reflector surfaces; they don't have
MIL SPEC coatings
Don't tear down the interior optical assemblies; they are aligned to
each other

kirby

"Varon H. Fugman" wrote:
>
> When I got my '95 S6 almost 3 years ago, I was delighted with the
> headlights, especially the high beams.  They were so good I was amazed that
> they were US DOT legal!  I couldn't understand why someone would spend $600
> to upgrade to Euro lamps.
>
> However, 3 years later I'm not as pleased with them.  They are still good,
> but not great any more.  What happened?  Here are my theories:
>
> 1. The stock S6 lamps are so much better than my old car's headlights that
> they seemed fantastic at first.  Now I've gotten used to them and want more!
>
> 2. They aren't putting out as much light as they used to either through (a.)
> aging of the bulbs and/or (b.) a film collecting on the inside of the lens.
>
> 3. I'm do more night driving on country roads that I used to and I need/want
> better lighting.
>
> I'm trying to figure out if I should try the lens cleaning procedure (I read
> through the procedure and was a little leery of breaking open the headlight
> assemblies) or just starting thinking about upgrading.  Of course, unless I
> get whole new lenses I'd want to clean them anyway, right?  For those that
> have done the lens cleaning, how dramatic was the improvement?
>
> Varon "thinking about HID"
> '95 urS6
>
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