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Old 06-13-2012, 09:11 PM
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I haven't really drove the Camaro much in the past 2 years. I guess when I was driving it a lot over the years, I never really noticed the headlight hazing. It sat with a cover most of the winter and I took the cover off a week or so ago and they looked like doo doo to me. I know people polish them but quite frankly, eff that. I spent a lot of money over the past week trying to get the car looking pristine, this is was part of it.
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Where did you get them?

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jeez that's a big difference!
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Originally Posted by 2002ss335
Where did you get them?

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http://www.ebay.com/itm/390379194963...84.m1497.l2649
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Thanks, if I can't get mine polished up I'll have to get a pair.

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Originally Posted by 2002ss335
Thanks, if I can't get mine polished up I'll have to get a pair.

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With enough elbow grease you should be able to polish them nicely. I tried for about 30 minutes with no avail. After coming to the conclusion it would probably take me about 8 hours to do both lights I just bought new ones.
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I'm thinking about just buying new lights as well because mine look good but you can tell they can look better and that really annoys me about my car.
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looks MUCH better!!

but to anyone interested...

Originally Posted by 9WhiteCamaro9
I'm thinking about just buying new lights as well because mine look good but you can tell they can look better and that really annoys me about my car.
for a cheaper solution than getting the $250 pair, you can get a new set of halo's for usually as low as around $100-115 shipped on ebay. And then you pull them apart (as if doing the whistler mod) and pull out the black plastic that gives them their look. Once that's out, put the lights back together and you've got the exact same lights as stock, for less than half the price of buying the stock replacements. That's what i did for nice, new lights, at the cheapest possible price

oh, and if you're current headlights fit the way you like, you can simply swap the new lights to your old brackets

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This is how I felt about my "new vs old" TA's front blinker housings. I knew that looked bad, but not THAT bad...

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Wow, huge difference. How do they fit compared to your stock ones?
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I just went through the process of restoring my headlights. I had previously purchased the Meguiars kit with PlastX and a buffing wheel but that hardly touched the issues with my headlights (hazing, yellowing and etching). I did some research and decided that the Sylvania kit was a better option. With as much and severe wear on these kind of headlights I don't think anything short of a wet-sanding process will work. This kit was incredibly effective and only took about 30-40 minutes per headlight. They aren't new headlights certainly but they look great for only $20 and about an hour of work.
Just some thoughts...
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Wow! What a difference! I bet the car looks loads better!
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Originally Posted by 2GOOD4U
Wow, huge difference. How do they fit compared to your stock ones?
I think they fit pretty much the same as stock. I still need to level the lights. but they look great and the gaping looks factory.
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Originally Posted by crimson_bird
looks MUCH better!!

but to anyone interested...



for a cheaper solution than getting the $250 pair, you can get a new set of halo's for usually as low as around $100-115 shipped on ebay. And then you pull them apart (as if doing the whistler mod) and pull out the black plastic that gives them their look. Once that's out, put the lights back together and you've got the exact same lights as stock, for less than half the price of buying the stock replacements. That's what i did for nice, new lights, at the cheapest possible price

oh, and if you're current headlights fit the way you like, you can simply swap the new lights to your old brackets
Oh yeah I knew about doing it that way but either way, I don't have the money to pull the trigger yet. About swapping out the brackets from the old ones to the new ones, I had to do that with my fiance's car when I gave her my old headlights. Works okay but I gotta adjust the hood a little bit because I can get them near perfect but once I close the hood, the passenger side headlight gets knocked down and some kid owned the car before we got it so IDK what he did to the car really as to weather the car's body has been messed with or the part that helps position the hood has gotten messed up.

Thanks though Crimson, good looking out.
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Originally Posted by bigbomber5
This is how I felt about my "new vs old" TA's front blinker housings. I knew that looked bad, but not THAT bad... :barf
I have those DEPO DRL's too, love 'em. I swapped out my fog light housings too.
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just did the same thing.. awesome upgrade...



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