986Forum

986 headlight fogging on the inside - 986 Forum - The Community for Porsche Boxster & Cayman Owners

Add to repair workspace

1 captured repliesDiscussion pagination complete · Source accounts, not a confirmed diagnosis

THIS DISCUSSION / SOURCE-DERIVED OVERVIEW

Discussion summary

YOUR RESEARCH986 headlight fogging on the inside - 986 Forum - The Community for Porsche Boxster & Cayman Owners

1 matching discussions were examined; no attributable action/outcome evidence was detected. No consensus or repair conclusion is claimed.

Source reports, not a diagnosis or a success probability. Counts refer to discussions and can overlap.

Read captured replies

Insufficient extracted evidence does not mean there is no answer in the original discussions.

1 matching discussions · 1 captured posts examined · 0 partial discussions

Coverage and how to read this overview

Counts describe captured discussions, not unique people or a diagnosis. Author identities are not reliably stored. Exact duplicate evidence is counted once across matching discussions; one discussion counts at most once per action/state. Multiple repairs reported together remain a combination. Suggestions and failed attempts do not establish a fix. Matches cover whole discussions and can include related faults, model variants and incomplete threads.

1 eligible posts · 0 unverified posts · 1 discussions match the subject in their title or opening post.

986Forum: 1 discussions

0 evidence records excluded for query context · 0 excluded by outcome qualification · 0 adjusted by outcome qualification.

0 acknowledgements have no verified action link; they do not establish a repair result.

Generation: 20261026T105141Z · outcome-qualification-6. Deterministic extraction; no AI model inference. How we use sources

POST 1 / ORIGINAL POSTEROriginal post

Hi all, I'm at a dead end with my 986's Litronic headlights and trying to get them cleared up and the fog/yellowing removed. I've tried all the DIY methods and also had a detailer give them a full wet sanding down (twice) to see if it improved the fog. No luck, so must be on the inside. I know I've seen methods for getting the headlight units open but to me that sounds like a recipe for disaster. Has anyone tried this? Or any advice from the group on what I could do next? To note, when I bought the car it had one original Bosch headlamp (which is in good shape) and one AL headlamp (which is the one with more fog). The Bosch one has a protective film on it while the AL does not.

This is a source reference. Confirm exact model applicability in the original material.