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Do your headlights look foggy, dull, hazed, or scratched?
Mine started to look hazy due to the bombardment of dust, bugs and sand that
hits my headlights. :( |
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3M Imperial wet/dry 1500 grit sand paper to the rescue!!!
I used soapy water as a lubricant and some sand paper. Please make
sure you don't push too hard. You want to remove an ultra thin layer
of plastic, not SCRATCH the plastic.
Think "light pressure" and patience. |
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UH OH... 1500 grit just RUINED my headlights!!!
Now they're even more hazed and foggy!!! j/k Well you know what the
event horizon is? Or the point of no return? Well you just
passed it after using sand paper on your headlights. |
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RUBBING compound to the rescue!!! |
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I used my porter cable dual action (Random Orbit) polisher,
a yellow pad, and 3M rubbing compound. Two applications of this will get
that haze right out! |
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Ahhh, much better, but I still see a slight dullness...
This is because there's one more polishing step! |
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PlastX and a GREEN pad. I suppose you can use a white
pad too, but the green Lake Country CSS pad worked fine for me. |
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WOW - now we are talking... MUCH BETTER THAN BEFORE!! |
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| HOLY night and day batman!! Can you tell
which one is the before and which one is the after? I'll give you a
hint, the blue tape is on the "before" picture... ^^ Anyways, my
HID's can now shine their brightest and my car looks much better without the
FOGGY headlight look.
Keep in mind that this is not for the weak at heart... I'm a
professional detailer and might have made this look "a little" easier than
it really is. So please only attempt to do this if you can afford new
headlight housings.
For those that don't have a DA, I'd get one of those $40 headlight
restoration kits that comes with pads you can put on a hand drill.
If you don't have a hand drill, or money to buy polish. Then use
tooth paste and and old sock with light circular pressure... j/k |
