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To: DUMBGRUNT

Speaking of headlights, why must all car manufacturers use cheap plastic headlights that turn cloudy and obscure your vision after a few years? Bring back glass.


7 posted on 04/20/2022 8:08:06 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (I love my country. It's my government that I hate.)
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To: Responsibility2nd
turn cloudy and obscure your vision after a few years

I call that vehicular glaucoma.

9 posted on 04/20/2022 8:11:14 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: Responsibility2nd
Speaking of headlights, why must all car manufacturers use cheap plastic headlights that turn cloudy and obscure your vision after a few years? Bring back glass.

Plastic headlight covers are the worse idea ever. Going in today to see if they can clean it up. It is so foggy you can hardy see the light. One of them was replaced 2 years ago when someone had the nerve to run into me.

49 posted on 04/20/2022 8:38:03 AM PDT by Irish Eyes
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To: Responsibility2nd

“Speaking of headlights, why must all car manufacturers use cheap plastic headlights that turn cloudy and obscure your vision after a few years?”

Plastic weighs less than glass.


53 posted on 04/20/2022 8:39:11 AM PDT by MercyFlush (The Soviet Empire is right now doing a dead cat bounce.)
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To: Responsibility2nd
Speaking of headlights, why must all car manufacturers use cheap plastic headlights that turn cloudy and obscure your vision after a few years? Bring back glass.

Or even a much better coating on the plastic... This one should be easy

64 posted on 04/20/2022 8:47:37 AM PDT by GOPJ (.............Being a sexual weirdo should NOT be a path to power.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Buy some headlight cleaner........


89 posted on 04/20/2022 9:19:18 AM PDT by Osage Orange (1961 VW Two Door Truck)
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To: Responsibility2nd

“Speaking of headlights, why must all car manufacturers use cheap plastic headlights that turn cloudy “

Those plastic things are stylists’ dreams because they can be made cheaply in all sorts of fancy shapes. The clouding-up makes a car look old, not to mention the danger of loss of headlight function.

While harmless, I’m sick and tired of the dozens of Leds they’re adorning the cars with.

Someone mentioned larger windows. We’ve gone from a 1983 Suburban to an ‘04 to a ‘19. The window area gets progressively smaller as puffy plastic replaces metal.


98 posted on 04/20/2022 9:29:58 AM PDT by cymbeline
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To: Responsibility2nd

About three years ago, I spent $2,500 on a full paint job on my “98 Civic. Included in that price were two completely new head light units with perfectly clear plastic covers.

It looks like it is new


178 posted on 04/20/2022 1:10:43 PM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) Promoting Afro Heritage diversity will destroy the democrats)
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