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Wash your headlights well using soapy water; rinse and dry. Dip a corner of your soft rag in denatured alcohol, which you can find at most paint or hardware stores. Rub the solution on your lens in small, circular motions. Repeat until your headlights lose some of their yellow hue.
You can not buy just the covers. They come as complete assemblies as the dealer quoted you. What you can do is call around your area to find a shop that offer's headlamp restorations.
Basically they will sand all the degraded material off of the lenses, polish them, and then reseal them. I do them all the time with fantastic results.
I can give you some instruction on how to do this yourself if you are interested or you can check out my how to tip.
If you buy new lights they may come with that mouinting bracket, it probably needs new lights by now anyhow and the get yellowed and hazy. check on the web for 1996 pontiac lights and see what comes up.
the lens covers are not serviceable that means the hadlamp assy. is one piece, very expensive too. my guess is they are cloudy, right, or broken, they can be cleaned, call your local dealer they can resurface them back to original fairly inexpencive.
STEP 1
The following steps were for a 99 95 but should apply to all cars with slight variations. Unlike with some other types of cars... the wiring to your burnt-out headlamp (not to the Head...light Assembly) is hidden. First, find the large dome-like black plastic cover on the back of the headlight assembly. Rotate it slightly to unlock, and it should fall away.
STEP 2
Grasp the plastic connector that is now revealed, and wiggle it from side to side while pulling toward the rear of the car.
STEP 3
Depress the upper part of the metal restraining clip so that it can swing down and out of the way.
STEP 4
Gently pull, or rotate and pull, the headlamp out of the headlight assembly.
STEP 5
Being careful not to touch the glass on your new headlamp... (use a clean cloth)...grasp the lamp by the two metal tabs and gently insert it into the hole in the assembly.
STEP 6
Replace the connector.
STEP 7
Replace the black plastic cover, rotating slightly to lock. Check to make sure it is locked in place.
try to pollish out the scratches, thats what the hazy look is , road dust at highway speeds turns into a sander and scratches the clear lens.there are kits made just for this or I normally use meguires number 7 fine cut cleaner and a buffer with a cotton pad.
all you need to do is go to a pro auto paint store and pick up some "rubbing compound" it's like a wax. You "waxon" - "waxoff" with a circular motion. It will remove the oxidation off of your plastic light cover. No need to remove.
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