Everyone HATED These on my 996 Turbo, Finally Fixing

What did you use to reclear/seal uv protect them?

Perfect!!!

Braaahh ask your girl if she brags with ger girls about having a handy boyfriend that bought a hideous 996 and turned it into a nice gt2 replica

Total WASTE of your time and effort when you don’t replace the CLEAR COAT you just stripped. You need to spray a 2 stage 2K clear coat to protect them from UV rays, otherwise your lights will turn yellow in no time, this time they won’t sand off ..
Wax, synthetic polymers, ceramic are temporary solutions.
Ultmitaly you need 2K spray and PPF on top to protect them from stone chips

Hey Mat,
I knew you'd get round to the headlights /taillights eventually! Despite the fact you said this cleaning & polishing wasn't fun or very enjoyable, but the end results are totally worth it. The car now looks 'complete' & so much better IMHO. 👍🔥👍

Is that the seam going through the middle of the headlights or a crack

OEM Tail light looks That is the way to Go!!!!!👋👋👍

You need to adjust the headlight housing slightly, they need be aligned with thebwings a bit better. Easy adjustment to make, just tweak them when the headlights are removed.

3 piece bbs in silver would look so fire on that car

that haziness is from your polishing not the projector housing.

well done! looks amazing

Yuck that black on the tail lights is terrible. Glad you got rid of it!

Thank you for sharing. Great production and I'm really enjoying the content. Keep it up! Small suggestion… Porsche is someone's name, not just a 'brand'. So, it's recommended to pronounce one's name appropriately. It's pronounced 'Por shuh'…. not 'Porsh'.

Headlights look great. An oil change near me will do them for $50, though. For tail lights, I would have upgraded to LED which is what I did with mine. Game changer!!!!

Alright dude great job!! Now you need some silver 996 turbo wheels (they make them aftermarket 1” bigger), some coilovers and that should be good. Seriously need some silver wheels

Now that your headlight lens are crystal clear – have you considered headlight covers? A quick google search finds some good examples

Blacked out tail lights aside those headlights are a single symptom of a larger problem with the 996s. In the previous generation (993) you will see the headlight, turn signal light, fog lamp and day running lights are all separate parts with their own space molded into the bodywork. Each of these was a separate part with it's own part number, it's own requirements for stocking, shipping and mfg. This was CHEAPER for the customer as each part, if failed or broken, was much more affordable to replace but it passed the cost onto Porsche as far as logistics and mfg. Nearly every part of the 993 was over engineered in this way and while it made an amazing car this was during the early 1990s financial recession. It's rumored that Porsche may have lost money on every 993 sold during this time. It nearly bankrupted them and as a result VW had to step in and rescue them. The Problem with that is that along with a much needed rescue came mandates. Porsche had to start doing business the way VW wanted them to as a prerequisite for the rescue.

Porsche had to start adopting the same cost cutting measures as all the other German auto makers. Sometimes saving by passing along costs to the consumer as they did with those controversial headlights you have on your 996. All the lights I mentioned above for the 993 are included in a single unit with a single PID for a single lump sum for the 996. Fog light not working? Litronic baby – you buy a whole new light assembly at something like $2k+ per corner and yes, the plastic yellows just like a cheaper automobile (now you know why so many of those lights have DIY work in them). Have a nice day and thanks for shopping with Porsche. That being said I believe the 996 and Boxster were the most profitable cars Porsche had sold up to that point so it worked for them.

The only real saving grace here is that while BMW/MERC/AUDI etc have all been getting cheaper and cheaper in the quality of their mfg (plastics where you should have aluminum/ steel in the engine bay for example) Porsche has maintained the quality of their builds as far as providing the end user with a durable product mfg'd to closer tolerances for nearly everything under the roofline. Better fit and finish for everything from components under the hood to the interior trim surrounding your shift knob.

I will say that some of the newer non-sports cars Porsche makes have exhibited similar issues to the ones I've described but only because some of them share more technology with the other German auto mfgs. They all have more failing luxury gismos in them and are built for a similar business model and demographic like that of a BMW/MERC/AUDI. If you need evidence of this look at the difference in price between a 2 – 5 year old BWM/MERC and then check the price of cars that are 6 – 9 years old. Value drops off a cliff as though the car turned rotten (it basically has) after it's lease period. Notice BMW touts highest residual values for 5 years – your lease period. This should be a clue as to how one properly owns such a car.

The moto here is that if you really must buy a new German car that isn't a Porsche sports car, for the love of god lease the damn thing and toss it like a ticking time bomb before the lease is up. Don't be lazy, build your German car efficacy. Being so rich you don't really care about being taken advantage of at a car dealership is neither a virtue nor a flex. Turning over key parts of the decision making process to a car salesman may FEEL good as it seems like a convenience (we all know how luxurious convenience can feel) but it will never yield a convenient ownership experience and that's everything.

But car guys know all this. 😉

Somehow this popped up in my YouTube feed. I stayed for the tail lights and applaud your effort 😀👌 Also nice video editing skills 👍

The lights are looking suuuuper fresh man. Well done!