I mean its definitely doing the extra. But technically it would prolong the headlights from getting damaged by the sun while parked.
Ah haa
I mean, technically he's not wrong. No UV means no UV damage. It's excessive and more work than a UV resistant clear coat, but it'll have some effect.
Yeah thats like not fucking your wife to keep her tight for the next dude
How else am I supposed to keep her boyfriend happy?! I'm not gonna fuck him myself!
Her boyfriend can’t fuck himself.
Sure he can.
Have you tried though? Maybe you can be a throuple!
~German
~cucking lives rent-free
Yeah that checks out..
The car is just sleeping, let it rest.
This absolutely works. It works so well that I don’t even take mine off anymore. I leave the windshield ones in too. No way I’m letting my dash fade.
Exactly! Just how much sun comes in while driving? Too much! Gotta play it safe, so keep it covered!
Did he cover up the trail lights as well? If not I'm sure they feel left out, some people just don't care about their tail lights as they do about their head lights, this really hurts the tail lights feelings
And we all know what happens when taillights' feelings are hurt
Yeah they cry, and it fills up the housing.
You know what. Sure. Way to go dad!
You would cover your eyes while sleeping outside too.
It's not stupid if it works. 100%, the sun damages the plastic lenses of lighting assemblies. Source- I'm a Floridian and see it happening in real-time.
Maybe the handicap placard is for mental degradation?
It is stupid, the headlights still lights up even if you cover them. This will only keep the sun from yellowing.
It's the sun that yellows.
The sun is more yellow than my headlights, therefor my headlights are making the sun more yellow.
Yeah so quit messing up my sun and cover your headlights
Boom! Checkmate athiests!
The headlights are turning my teeth yellow. Ill wear one of these covers over my mouth.
It's not stupid if it works... And this works to some degree.
BUT
Go buy him some oraguard stoneguard, it blocks 99%UV and protects from scratching also!
Like everyone has said he's not wrong. But if you want to convince him id probably say 2 things. 1 the covers are going to eventually scratch the paint around the lights and cause more damage. Even theyre soft.
And 2 what this commenter said spray a uv protectant over them.
the cost of spending the time everything you park isnt worth it i dont think. Get a uv spray, and then create a savings account to either have them repaired or replaced.
The oraguard is better than spray. You just rip it off after 3-5 years and put a new one.
The first thing I thought was, “This s genius”. Yup, I am a Boomer and proud of it! Well done Dad!
Dad, this is dumb!
At least he doesn't have them monogrammed. Leave the poor guy alone. He ain't hurting anyone.
Lol
Reminds me of a coworker from years ago, would prop the hood open with 2 water bottles, to help it cool off quicker, his own words. Bro worked the night shift, getting to work around 10pm.
Trust me…with wheels like that, you won’t be able to convince him of anything…
It’s because it’s a thoroughbred racing machine, think about race horses, a lot wear blinkers.
Smart move
It will protect his headlights. But If he's popping the hood everytime he parks somewhere to prevent headlamp damage it is very stupid, by the time he's ready to buy new ones they'll be pretty cheap.
You can stop applying negative generalizations to boomers. It's such an obvious attempt by the entitled generation to justify being useless idiots who can't even solve the problem of which finger to pick their nose with. Sure it looks silly, but have you priced replacement headlight assemblies these days?
Dad! We are not having this discussion again in public like the last time we went to Cracker Barrel and you caused a scene. Look, just because you bribed the waitress with a $10 bill to hang your framed Sunday School certificate on the wall doesn't mean you own the place. And I get it. Grandma's butter churn was there and you wanted to feel equally important.
I'm not humoring you anymore. 20 minutes. That's how long it takes for you to put solar blankets on your headlights. And you don't even do it. You make me do it. I have to lay on the ground in the hot 'Zona sun zip tying shit while enduring your constant commentary about why everyone else in the parking lot doesn't care enough about headlight preservation.
I get that you have a lot of free time. And yes, it sucks since mom left you. But you did spend $3,000 on vintage camcorders - the best of their day you said - and lighting. You filmed 47 videos of yourself explaining how to change a printer cartridge and uploaded them to YouTube. And none of them were in focus. Who does that?
We are going to need to find you different hobbies. Can't you just be a normal boomer and feed squirrels in the park, collect commemorative state quarters, or listening to the police radio while organizing your garage?
Just putting this out there, not a single person born after 1970 has ever come through my checkout line or up to my customer service desk and acted like they were entitled to special treatment or basically called me stupid for not breaking the rules for their convenience. Silent Generation is all but extinct. Gen X and Millennials, by and large, aren't entitled. Gen Z might be a bit self-absorbed at times, but I wouldn't call them entitled. Idk about Gen Alpha, too soon to tell for them. So you tell me, who does that leave to be named the Entitled Generation?
keeps em from gettin spooked
Yeah, but you only need it when you're pulling a carriage or wagon.
When you have a badass car like that….it’s worth it to go the extra mile
Be sure he keeps it parked inside of a garage or underneath a cover while at home (and, if possible, while at work (if he works)).
If not, it’s not just the headlights to be concerned about.
Though the headlights are apparently successfully covered and protected with the clever bionic titanium spf-100 layer invention, the rest of the truck (the seats/upholstery, wiring, batteries, plastics, paint, …) is still getting thoroughly baked. …Like, Cheech and Chong kind of baked.
For complete and more-comprehensive protection: He may need a little more duct tape. 🥇
And right up front in a handicap spot, too. He truly wants the world to see the ingenuity on that unholy boomermobile. How high up does he wear his socks?
Dude wakes up and the first thing he does is tucks in his shirt
I bet he wears white New Balance shoes and long white socks with pride
Don't they go yellow from continually not having enough blink fluid?
It will help keep them from yellowing. I had clear ppf put on my $1800 Morimoto headlights on my F250. The first set started yellowing after 2 years. Now I park it under a shelter and have the ppf on the lights.
Not stupid
You could use clear coat, you know that stuff car companies use to protect from sunlight and uv damage.
So Ford still uses plastic that cannot handle UV?
I don't see why not. I keep my wiper blades up off the windshield on hot sunny days. Glass can get really hot and damage the wiper blades
Why not just apply SPF 100
That's what headlight condoms are for.
I will not. I will sit and watch this ritual every chance I get though.
This will work
It won't stop it but it will keep it from happening as soon.
Well he is handicapped. Kinda helps define the handicap
It’s a Ford, it will break down before the lights yellow 😂
Your dad has plastic covers on his couches too doesn't he?
I’d rather buy new headlights every 5 years
Stealth to combat police radar
This won't work, but 3M sells a great product that works just like a cell phone skin cover. That works. It's expensive, but it does work.
It probably works.
Tell his cheap ass to get a nice car cover and be done with it 😳
2 mins per day to cover the lights times average of day 300 days per year time 7 years to own car equals 70 hours labor. At median wage of $30/hour equals $2100 in labor.
That's the samurai helmet, and that Ford should know better...
Build a garage, only drive at night.
He probably doesn't want anyone to see that his blinker fluid is low. I'd cut him some slack, he might just be too embarrassed to admit that he doesn't know how to refill it. Maybe do him a favor and refill it for him.
it is too much hussle but if he is okay with his solution it doesn't harm anyone and it works. Good for him
that fucking excuse lmfaooo dude your dad is a GENIUS
You don’t use them in the daylight.
Tell dad to use them at night only.
They’ll last decades!
Hope this helps fren.
🤘😆🤘
Come on folks...it's obvious this truck is new at working night shift and just trying to hide from the bosses daughter in order to get a bit of sleep...
Shhh its trying to sleep.
I support your father's idea o
I mean.. if you did that from day 1 I think it'd certainly slow the yellowing/micr-fracture process. The sun is a relentless bitch to translucent plastics.
Is that Edge performing surgery? Looking past the dumb mats, wtf is with the lights?
This also helps save money by reducing the need to change blinker fluid so often.
The sun doesn't cause this (though it can exacerbate it). It is the plastic oxidizing. Plastics today are better than the plastics from 80's and 90's as far as oxidation is concerned, but they still oxidize. For those of you that still have an SNES from the 90's, you'll notice despite being inside 24/7, the plastics still yellow over time.
Why would you post this and pretend that it's your dad's car? That's just sad
What sub are you in, bub?
Whoa! Free windshield covers
how long has this been going on? Is this like when I got my first aftermarket stereo and I took the faceplate off for like 2 weeks and then got over myself and quit bothering?
Well if they're made out of resin. Yes the yellow very very fast. What makes you a question. Who uses resin anymore
I almost guarantee that placard is for extreme OCD. Not even joking.
Those are probably IR aux lights (850nm or 940nm) and the owner is driving ‘blacked out’ with NVG.
Aren't brand new headlights like $100 to $150 each after 10 years when they start to get hazy or yellow?
If he just invested the $40 he spent on those sun shades in the stock market, he could have $300 in 10 years easy.
It will do that yes but dang it’s an hour to wet Sand, polish and clear
Its a bit overboard IMO...but he is right...U.V damage is one of the major causes of non-glass headlight lenses fogging up. There are coating that do the same thing though
The amount of time wasted doing this when you can just buy replacement lights for when they get too yellow is absurd
It's so the car only pays attention to the road ahead
Tell ypur dad fo make sure to apply spf-100 sunscreen to the car every 90 minutes, or the paint is going to burn.
Might deflect radiation if Nth Korea dropped the bomb . It would make night driving alot of fun . 🤩
UV degrades plastic. If he only uncovers light we driving and keeps covered other 10+ hours of daylight, maybe he on to something.
Lights (cover) are acrylic which is very colour stable. It is Polyester -which looks the same -that turns yellow-ish.
Mf really pulled out the "ACKSHUALLY ☝🏼🤓" ahh reply
Op did ask for help to convince his dad
😴 ahh car
This is cruel. Cars are very curious and love observing the world pass by when parked outside. Covering its eyes will only cause depression and depressed cars veer off roads at high speeds.
Cars Eyes Matter.
Blinders keep the horse from getting upset.
It's a Ford. It's always upset. Besides, I know for a fact that horses live inside engines and engines are dark and the darker it is the angrier they get and the angrier they get the more horse power you get. Science bitch!
And here I thought anger produced torque and ego produced HP
Does it help keep em in the same lane?
I’ve called CPS (Car protective services).