Headlight restore worth $982.00
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Headlight restore worth $982.00
So I bought my car about a year ago now and from the start the headlight were destroyed, i have no clue what the previous owner did to them but it looked like someone took 60 grit to it. Terribly scratched. Before....
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People told me to just buy new one but i figured before I spent $1,000 on a new set spend $18 bucks on a restore kit. I bought the 3M headlight restore kit, well worth the money.
And before people start busting my ***** yes I know these are different head lights but I started working on the drivers side one before I took any pictures.
People told me to just buy new one but i figured before I spent $1,000 on a new set spend $18 bucks on a restore kit. I bought the 3M headlight restore kit, well worth the money.
And before people start busting my ***** yes I know these are different head lights but I started working on the drivers side one before I took any pictures.
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My second job is auto detailing and I have found that the Diamondite Headlight kit works excellent. Go to autogeek.net and read about it. They also have videos that explain in detail how to use their restoration kits.
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Advance Auto sells a headlight repair kit that is awesome.. I never thought they were worth it until my girlfriends brother bought the kit and did it himself and it worked great.. I can't remember the name of the kit now, but its in a silver bag and its like 20 bucks or right around there. Everytime I get a new car and the headlights look rough that is the first thing I buy.
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Yeah, I have one of those silver bag kits at home right now. Doing a little searching online, it looks like the brand name is Symtech. I've used that kit, the 3M kit, and have just done it myself with some wet/dry sandpaper and some plastic polish. Any of the above work just great. The 3M kit is nice because it includes a drill adapter and so you can let the drill do more of the work.
This isn't the greatest pic, but here's what I did on my Subaru years ago, I think with the Symtech kit.
This isn't the greatest pic, but here's what I did on my Subaru years ago, I think with the Symtech kit.
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I have used the Meguires on a few cars and it works well. I have a Grand Cherokee too and it worked terrible on it! I found out the corrosion was actually on the inside of the lense...go figure.
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I tried l the restoration kit, and it was nice... For a while, but in the end it was mor worth getting them painted and cleared then wasting more time restoring them, and still having the ugly gray border
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No clue what the previous owner did to it. They have been like that for a year but never got any worse. It isn't flaking like paint or clear coat but literally like someone took 60 grit to it, deep scratches in different directions.
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I'll need to do the same touch-up work you did. Nice job.
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on occasion you can megs 105 with a surbuf r series pad and be done, no sanding
if you know what you are doing and have the right products its simple, fast, and easy to do
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500 grit, not 50. then it went to 800 then wet sanding with 3000 grit and finally a polish. just saying 1500 is way to fine to start with based on how deep those scratches were.