Pop-up headlights compilation - GIF

**Altair** · Feb 23, 2022, 12:56 PM

Pop-up headlights compilation.

Previously:

1965 Buick Riviera clamshell headlights - GIF
Clearing a foggy headlight with acetone vapor - GIF
Chandelier headlights - photo
Reverse high beams - comic

**nova_robotics** · Feb 23, 2022, 09:29 PM

Popup headlights are so cool.

I used to have a Porsche 944. Those were good looking popups.

I have a 928 now. Those are not good looking popups.

I also have a 996 911. Those are ugly and don't even pop up.

**Frank S** · Feb 23, 2022, 11:05 PM

I had a 69 Lincoln Mark 3 that would wink at oncoming traffic. one or the other would close then open again every time I dimmed my headlights

**nova_robotics** · Feb 24, 2022, 02:12 AM

Originally Posted by Frank S

I had a 69 Lincoln Mark 3 that would wink at oncoming traffic. one or the other would close then open again every time I dimmed my headlights

I know you live in a warm climate so you probably don't have experience with it, but around here where things are frozen for 3 months of the year we have to undercoat our cars. You can get crappy undercoating which is basically just heated up wax, but the really good stuff is a process that takes a few hours. They'll pull plugs and grommets out of bodywork, and actually drill holes strategically in body panels and just absolutely coat every surface in oil. Whole car, inside and out. It's great because EVERYTHING starts working again. All kinds of creaks and squeaks magically disappear. They basically lube up places that you didn't even know existed. My 944 used to wink. I gave it a half hearted attempt to fix it and gave up. Then I got the car undercoated. Worked perfect until I sold the car.

**mdhatter3** · Feb 24, 2022, 06:01 AM

My ‘87 trans am pops up. When it stops you have to rebuild the electric motors. My 2002 Firehawk pops up too. Fun to watch.

**Frank S** · Feb 24, 2022, 09:01 AM

Originally Posted by nova_robotics

I know you live in a warm climate so you probably don't have experience with it, but around here where things are frozen for 3 months of the year we have to undercoat our cars. You can get crappy undercoating which is basically just heated up wax, but the really good stuff is a process that takes a few hours. They'll pull plugs and grommets out of bodywork, and actually drill holes strategically in body panels and just absolutely coat every surface in oil. Whole car, inside and out. It's great because EVERYTHING starts working again. All kinds of creaks and squeaks magically disappear. They basically lube up places that you didn't even know existed. My 944 used to wink. I gave it a half hearted attempt to fix it and gave up. Then I got the car undercoated. Worked perfect until I sold the car.

Unfortunately, I have many past experiences with having to deal with cold wet climates with high salty humidity, roads being sprayed with salt and other highly corrosive substances. So yeah, I hear you, There are under coatings and then there are under coatings, even the best of them are only as good as the surface preparation they are applied to. Coating the insides of cavities defiantly is a huge step in the right direction, placement of the holes to allow spraying into hidden places is just as important as coating those spaces to prevent creating a portal for moisture to become entrapped, in lower regions, A wax-based coating in those spaces will last longer than oil or petroleum-based ones, but even those have limitations if the cavities already have corrosion in them. The corrosion needs to be dealt with first. A high phosphoric acid content solution will take care of that.
Once metal cancer has taken hold and eroded too much of the base metal, excising it and replacing the panels is the only true solution.