I have the c300 headlight housing take out of the car now. My question is...is there a writeup on how to open up the headlight? I see that there are some screws holding the housing to the lens/reflector...if I bake them open, will the housing just come apart? The housing is plastic, what is a safe temperature to bake it at?

yes, I searched lol

 

Its Memorial Day weekend... You don't "BAKE" anything... YOU BARBEQUE IT!!!

J/K... I have no idea but big props for trying

 

Lol thanks man! I'm kinda stuck on this project! I really don't want to have the car down for too long haha

 

you try you tube yet?

 

That was my first option hahah still no luck

 

That is a simple resquest. in the oven on a cookie sheet on aluminum foil with the temp set at warm or 150 -200 degrees whichever is the lowest setting and only for a few moments. You want the adhesive to become warm and soft not hot and gooey. Remember to take off any rubber gaskets first surrounding the headlamp. Be careful with the adjusters as it is very easy to make them go out of wack if it is a HID system. Best wishes and happy Memorial Day from a US person stuck inside Canada for the weekend!!!

 

Or you could use a heat gun and a little more finesse. Just takes a little longer. Wear gloves and something flat to pry with.

 

Closest I can come to:

https://mbworld.org/forums/c-class-w...t-housing.html

Good luck, and let us know how it worked out!

 

Let me also add that if I understand the process correctly, whichever method you used to take the housing apart, and after painting, you have to use the same method to soften the adhesive so that it will seal properly prior to putting it back together.

 

Easy,
1) Take off the 4 metal clips first

2) Preheat oven 250 degrees

3) Place headlight on cookie sheet with aluminum foil and make sure when you place it in the over that you set the cookie sheet on the lowest rack slot in the oven and keep the headlight in the most center part of the oven for 10 min

4) After 10 min, pull out of oven and pull clear lens out and away from headlight assy

5) Once your inside there will be some torx screws to take out to pull the chrome assy apart

6) When done with painting repeat above steps in reverse order

 

A photo i took yesterday of my wifes w204, i did her headlights per my method

 

Awesome man! Thanks for the step by step process break down! I took a picture of these screws, will these come off with the lens when I bake them? Also, do you take out the oem projector when you bake them? Or just leave them in?

Do I need to worry about these screws? Holding refelector to the lens? There are also screws holding the black plastic to the reflector

 

^once you open the head light up you will have access to those torx screws

 

Did you paint that grill or you purchased it like that?

I hope you're taking better pictures than ^that^ for the DIY you're writing up

 

purchased it like that, its a different one than oem

 

Looks great! Complimented well by the dark headlight housing

 

thanks

 

So easy after the headlight is open! Used a heatgun and went all the way around the housing with patience lol

I have better pictures coming! These are good for now! I will upload the step by step instructions tomorrow!

Projectors: Morimoto mini H1 projectors with mini gatling gun shrouds! As you can see, they match the original projector thats in the benz, as well fill in the oem halogen slot correctly! Threaded in the rear to make for a flat mounting surface! Projector is from theretrofitsource.com! Ask for Matt, but all the customer service reps are awesome!

 

Great work and have been thinking about doing headlight retrofit for a while. I assume you are using it for low beam with an additional H1 HID kit.

Looking forward to your instructions.

 

So did you only retrofit the high beams? Or did you do the lows as well and only got the ballasts, bulbs, and new lenses? Reason I ask is that the lows look completely stock, so if you did retro those, the stock shroud must've fit the replacement parts exactly, making this a true P'n'P retro/upgrade, which would definitely be a .

 

Good job. Getting them open is actually the easy part. Sealing them properly so no condensation gets in will be the difficult part. Looking forward to seeing this project come to completion

 

What paint did you use?

 

Nice job! What did you use to paint them? What are you going to use to re-seal them?

 

Krylon semi gloss

 

To the OP, by any chance do you know what size the OEM projector lenses are? Me and a friend of mine are considering doing a lens swap for a cleaner light output.