Hazy Lights Mean Risky Nights: Dim Headlights Haunt America`s Cars, Abbreviation Afterimage and Increasing Risks of Accidents

- National Headlight Assurance Month in October to Advice Educate Drivers About the

Risks of, and Solutions for, Headlight Assurance -

ST. PAUL, Minn.--(Business Wire)--

There is a assurance affair on America`s anchorage that rarely comes to light: dim

headlight bulbs and bleared headlight lenses, both of which may advance to reduced

visibility. As Daylight Savings Time ends, and kids hit the streets

trick-or-treating, the accent of bright caliginosity afterimage increases.

3M Car Care, AAA Foundation and the Automotive Aftermarket Industry Association

(AAIA) achievement to accompany acquaintance to this botheration with National Headlight Safety

Month, which bliss off October 1. The accessible assurance attack is advised to

educate car owners about the risks of dim headlights and how they can improve

their afterimage and assurance on the alley with quick, cost-effective repairs.

Automotive experts Sam Memmolo and Courtney Hansen will accommodate assurance tips,

project account and how-to videos on www.3MCarCare.com, YouTube 3M Car Care

Channel and the Facebook 3M-US Car Affliction group.

Reduced afterimage due to poor headlights may be added aggressive than people

realize. The AAIA Car Affliction Council begin that 26 percent of the cars it

inspected had issues with their lighting system. According to automotive

lighting architect Sylvania, headlight bulbs dim over time, and if one bulb

burns out, both bulbs should be replaced. Replacing bulbs afore they bake out

is a frequently abandoned automotive aliment step.

Another arch culprit of dim headlights is the artificial headlight lens. Millions

of cars on the alley today accept artificial headlight lenses. Unfortunately, these

lenses about don`t authority up to acclimate and time; they may become hazed and

yellowed, abbreviation the ablaze achievement from the headlamp. The botheration increases

with the age of the lens, and with the boilerplate age of cars on the alley at about

10 years old, the botheration is growing. In addition, the added sun or alkali a

vehicle is apparent to, the added acceptable that its artificial headlight lenses may be

hazy. This is a accepted affair on abounding calm and adopted automobiles, and isn`t

limited to less-expensive vehicles. It`s not aberrant for affluence cars to have

hazy headlight lenses, too.

"When you airing through a parking lot or drive in cartage today, you see a number

of cars with hazed headlights, non-working lights, streaky windshield wipers and

broken ancillary actualization mirrors," said Sam Memmolo, host of "Sam`s Garage" radio show

and longtime able on car adjustment and restoration. "Every one of these cars may

create a crisis to the disciplinarian and added humans on the road. But with some basic

education about car affliction and maintenance, all car owners can yield affliction of these

problems afore they could cause accidents."

Among the tips and solutions offered through National Headlight Assurance Month are

Vehicle Afterimage Assurance Checks, adjustment projects for hazed headlights and

guides for replacing headlamps and wiper blades. Concurrently, the AAA

Foundation is allotment "Heads-Up Active Week" starting October 5 to educate

consumers about the charge for alert driving, and the AAIA is allotment "Fall

Car Affliction Month"; the three initiatives accumulated will action consumers many

suggestions for blockage safe while they drive.

"3M`s ambition for National Headlight Assurance Month is to advice abate accidents that

may be acquired by bound afterimage on the road," said Julie Elepano, marketing

manager for 3M Car Care. "By alive with abundant ally like the AAA Foundation

and the AAIA, we can get the bulletin out to millions of humans that there are

simple, affordable solutions for convalescent your afterimage in the car, and the

visibility of your car to added drivers."

While replacing headlamps and windshield wiper blades accept commonly been

inexpensive repairs, the band-aid for hazed headlights lenses hasn`t been quite

so simple. Replacing the lens can amount up to $1,500. The customer repair

products in the accomplished just able the lens but didn`t absolutely adjustment the

damage, abolish the hazing or advance the clarity.

But now, a new class of adjustment kits makes it simple for car owners to do the

repair themselves, and the class has developed some 140 percent in just 18 months

time. Two solutions from 3M Car Affliction - the 3M Headlight Lens Apology System

and the 3M Lens Renewal Kit - acquiesce car owners to do the job themselves in less

than an hour, with just a cordless drill, all for beneath than $30.

"With one cruise to a bounded auto locations store, a car buyer can accomplish their car - and

themselves - a accomplished lot safer on the road," said Courtney Hansen, host of

"Powerblock" on Spike TV. "It alone takes a cordless or electric assignment for the

job. For beneath than $30 and about an hour of work, humans can abundantly improve

their ablaze achievement and afterimage on the road, not to acknowledgment the actualization of

their vehicle. These new headlight adjustment kits from 3M acquiesce anyone to fix this

problem themselves - extenuative money and allowance them drive added cautiously on the

road."

The 3M Car Affliction artefact band can be begin at arch automotive aftermarket

retailers and online at www.Shop3M.com. For added advice on 3M Car Care

products, appointment www.3MCarCare.com.

3M Accessible Relations

Connie S. Thompson, 651-733-8914

www.3M.com/PressContact

or

Debby Robinson, 312-505-4336

drobinson@vmg1.com

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