1. Used 3M soctchbrite sponge pads
2. Kleanstrip Bulldog Adhesion Promoter
3. taped off the cadi logo
4. then shot it with a single stage black

The whole reason i did this mod was beasue of the headlights.. the inital plan was to do a head light outline+ eyelids but after sanding off the scratches the lenses looked better then new.. so we said leave as stock for now.. gonna try to seal them with rain-x or sumthing cause the UV coating is what was pealing and what made it look shity and now its gone any ideas??

old:


headlight polishin
400grit
1200grit
#1 polishing compound on the buffer

 

Grill looks good!

 

Looks great! Nice work

 

Whats with the last few shots of your headlights? I think I'm missing something . . . ?

 

haha.. here are some after shots of the scratches aka UV damage removed
post:


waiting for the paint to dry my buddy turned my dull AL tube into CHROME

 

Ah okay. I guess I posted before the pics loaded or before you had a chance to upload the AFTER pictures. Headlights look good, but the pic is a little fuzzy . What compound did you use to restore the headlights?

 

Nice work.

 

thanks guys lets hope it holds up. i have only heard good things about Bulldog Adhesion Promoter
just standard 1200 grit 3m rubbing compound, i used Wicked metal polish to polish all the trim and AL intake pipe. Wicked is the ****! really brings out the shine...ill try and get some non blury pics. the 3g sucks

 

once it stops raining i need to do that to my head lights

 

Anyone have some pics of a stealthgray V with the blacked out grill? Someone had given me the idea to do a darker gun metal gray on grills and rims... if anyone can photoshop a pic for me than I can email the pic...

 

Is that flat or gloss?

 

AAIIIC...

Picture is in the CTS-V Pic Thread post #488...but his might be Thunder Gray, but thats close enough.

 

had some PM's heres some more info:

so go at the headlights with a rotary variable speed sander, 400 grit to get all the scratches and pealing off, then hit it with 1200 to remove that damage .. keep cleaning the lights off to see where your at.. looking for glass like smoothness.. i didnt do this but hit it wit 3000g if your really ****. again make it glass smooth, keep moving evenly..

standard +1200g rubbing compound with a varabile speed buffer.. if its still looking hazy, build up some heat and work the haze out from the center out..

Gloss black. single stage paint w/ clear, 3 coats on top of the bullydog adhesion primer. looks flawless in person.. well see how the rocks and fl bugs treat it


deff still gonna get good pics this week when i get some time and shes clean

 

im not trying to dog on your thread, but I hope you like repainting. I used almost the same applicants; bulldog etc. and the paint chips are terrible after about 3k miles. I'm looking into powdercoating them now

 

well ya did debbie downer..



600+miles, 2 trips across Gator alley.. 3 car washes tons of driect impact bug suicides and still brand fukin new

 

plus painting isnt hard to do

 

I'd like to see this, as well.

Nevermind: https://ls1tech.com/forums/14707583-post488.html

 

indeed... just cost me a bottle of crown royal.. well see how the 23hrs of I-95 treat her

 

Looks really good I need to do this!

 

As for protecting the now non-UV coated plastic: I have been reading up on detailing and supplies lately and remember reading about a product specifically made to follow up a "headlight restoration". Check out autogeek.net and dig around, I think I saw it there under the headlight stuff (Meguiar's)? From what I know about this, I would recommend putting something on them. Under UV plastic degrades pretty fast.