What polish to use on VHT taillights?
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What polish to use on VHT taillights?
Like the title says, I've recently used VHT on my taillights and am going to be polishing them up soon, was wondering what polish would make them shine the best. I'll be wetsanding them with 1k grit and moving my way up to 2k so they're nice and smooth but wanted to know what polish worked best on plastic and would give that glass like shine.
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the right way to do it is to have a few coats of clear coat on top of the vht.
i dont think there is to much if any gloss in the vht.
i did various lights and have allways cleared them after paint and gave then a good sand and buff and treated it just like regular paint.
i used 1500 then 2000 then a yellow 4in pad on my pc with some megs ultimate compound and its smoth as glass
i dont think there is to much if any gloss in the vht.
i did various lights and have allways cleared them after paint and gave then a good sand and buff and treated it just like regular paint.
i used 1500 then 2000 then a yellow 4in pad on my pc with some megs ultimate compound and its smoth as glass
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I have buffed straight VHT with no clear on it using Meguiars Plastix and also have used Meguiars Clear Coat Body Scrub. Both polished it to a mirror finish, but I was using a rotary buffer. If you are doing it by hand, then I am not sure what would work best. Here is the results I got. These aren't completely blacked out like most people do. I mainly used the vht on the black parts to hide the delamination, but I also put a few coats on the rest to give it a little tint to it.
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sorry to jack the thread , but have u guys incountered the vht cracking and looking like **** right after u applied it to the taillights right as it begins to dry. How did u guys fix this or is just because the plastic taillight itself is breaking down and the paint is soaking into the cracks in the plastic.
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sorry to jack the thread , but have u guys incountered the vht cracking and looking like **** right after u applied it to the taillights right as it begins to dry. How did u guys fix this or is just because the plastic taillight itself is breaking down and the paint is soaking into the cracks in the plastic.