Contour Enthusiasts Group Archives Forums General Troubleshooting moist inside head lights

If you can find the leaking crack or seam, a little silcone sealer would get you back in buisness, at least until you can find a new headlamp. I had this problem with my Taurus, made a vacuum fitting out of an old lamp, then used my A/C vacuum pump to remove the moisture.

Try using a hair dryer blowing through the hole where you put the bulb, or else blowing carefully on the front of the lens from the outside. Something I use with my 1953 Triumph sports car signal lights and brake lights where I get condensation as a result of -30 degree F temperatures in winter, is taping to the inside of the light unit one of those little packets that come with new electronics equipment to keep them dry - can't remember what they're called. Don't know where you'd afix it inside the light unit though, without messing up your beam pattern.

Will Keith
1996 Contour SL Duratec, auto.

Its called silica gel dessicant, but if you put it in your headlamp I am not sure how you would get it back out, unless of course it is off the car? Another good thing about that stuff is you can heat it back up and it will release the moisture and then you can use it again.