How do I remove the front lens piece off the headlight assembly?

[thinkpad240]

I'm having trouble on how to take the front lens off(for cleaning the cloudiness on the back of the lens.) the headlight assembly. The Bentley manual and youtube videos are not specific enough. Do I have to take off the whole headlight assembly piece, through removing 2 nuts from the top and 2 nuts from the back of the assembly piece , also the electronic connectors, and also the plastic trim piece below the assembly? Do I also have to use a heatgun to bake off the glue? It looks like there is a big screw inside the glass assembly piece so it looks like I may have to.

Or is there an easy way where the lens just comes off.? I can't find any simple method or link yet. Thanks.

[Vas]

You have a coupe so it does not come off like the sedans.

It will require heating up the headlight sealent and then removing the lens.

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[johnrando]

Yup, for a coupe look it up
You have to remove the whole headlight assembly from the car and bake them in an oven to loosen the glue.

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[danewilson77]

Bakey, bakey.... Until medium rare

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[papa_g]

haha this was the weirdest thing I have ever heard. putting a headlight in an oven. I guess I will have to do it if I plan on getting angel eyes in the future. Would a heat gun do the trick so I don't feel so dumb putting a car part inside a kitchen appliance?

[az3579]

haha this was the weirdest thing I have ever heard. putting a headlight in an oven. I guess I will have to do it if I plan on getting angel eyes in the future. Would a heat gun do the trick so I don't feel so dumb putting a car part inside a kitchen appliance?

Probably wouldn't work as well as you want it to. You want the whole thing to heat up so you can remove the lens in one shot without having to worry about waiting for a section to heat up and sticking something in there to keep the lens separated while you work on the rest of it.

[papa_g]

ok good to know

[Reasoned1]

How hot do you need to get it, and how do you handle the hot pieces?

[johnrando]

There are DIYs, but I think it's 200°. Hieu did mine.

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[papa_g]

I saw a german DIY on youtube, I think they did 100ºC for 10-15minutes. I could be wrong.