Polishing Plastic
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To polish my headlights I sanded with a course grit I think 400, should have gone lower then followed by 800, 1200, 2000 then I used a plastic polishing kit. You could probably skip the sanding on engine bay parts though. The headlight lenses had webbed like cracks from the sun damage.
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Well I am pretty sure you can do this. I tried on an interior piece and it is shiny. Just sand any of the texture off and gradually work your way up to wetsanding, maybe 2000 grit. I took meguiars plastx and buffed that on and it is shiny. I may do this on some of the engine bay caps too, good idea.
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Well I am pretty sure you can do this. I tried on an interior piece and it is shiny. Just sand any of the texture off and gradually work your way up to wetsanding, maybe 2000 grit. I took meguiars plastx and buffed that on and it is shiny. I may do this on some of the engine bay caps too, good idea.
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Hmm, yeah I guess I can post a pic or two later, might need to give me some time to make it look nice. I didn't really do a good job sanding because I was originally gonna paint it and smooth it out in primer. Probably tomorrow ill post some pics of the polished piece that goes around the radio.
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get some 3m rubbing compound and a soft towel. rub it into the plastic till it sqeeks and it'll look brand new. Dont rub to hard tho because you can actually melt/burn the plastic.