DIY: Polishing Your Foggy Plastic Headlights (Vid Tutorial)
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DIY: Polishing Your Foggy Plastic Headlights (Vid Tutorial)
How to refinish your foggy/hazy plastic vehicle headlights cheap and easy. This is a tutorial on how to fix it, without breaking your budget and buying new headlights or lenses. You will need 1000, 1500, 2000 grit, soapy water, rubbing/polishing compound, & wax. Instead of compound, you can also use tooth paste because it does have a small amount of grit in it.
Material/products:
-1000 grit wet/dry sandpaper
-1500 grit wet/dry sandpaper
-2000 grit wet/dry sandpaper
-bucket of water with car wash soap (or dish soap)
-paste or liquid polishing compound/scratch remover
-paste or liquid automotive wax (I used carnauba wax, but it doesn't have to be)
-2 lint free polishing clothes
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When you restore headlights you remove the factory lens coating. So if you do not replace the coating, the lights will yellow and fog up quicker next time around. I would recommend either clear coating by traditional methods, or the cheaper but equally effective route is to coat them with cquartz or opti-coat.
Start with the least aggressive method and work up to sanding only if needed, unless your lights are really bad. Sometimes all it takes is a polish like m205 on a orange pad to clear them back up, this would also preserve the factory coating.
Start with the least aggressive method and work up to sanding only if needed, unless your lights are really bad. Sometimes all it takes is a polish like m205 on a orange pad to clear them back up, this would also preserve the factory coating.
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When you restore headlights you remove the factory lens coating. So if you do not replace the coating, the lights will yellow and fog up quicker next time around. I would recommend either clear coating by traditional methods, or the cheaper but equally effective route is to coat them with cquartz or opti-coat.
Start with the least aggressive method and work up to sanding only if needed, unless your lights are really bad. Sometimes all it takes is a polish like m205 on a orange pad to clear them back up, this would also preserve the factory coating.
Start with the least aggressive method and work up to sanding only if needed, unless your lights are really bad. Sometimes all it takes is a polish like m205 on a orange pad to clear them back up, this would also preserve the factory coating.