Restoring Plastic Headlight Lenses.

ejmaztec

Has anyone got a tried and tested technique for getting rid of the "frosted effect" on plastic lenses? I've found various products using Google, but all of the manufacturers do the usual and tell you that their stuff is the best thing since sliced bread, and you can't tell which products are available here without doing a tour of the motor factors.

This stuff is good for doing the outside of the lens:

http://www.autogeek.net/plastik-lens-cleaning.html

Seperate

I did a quick headlight restoration on a car I had in a couple of weeks ago...

I used 2000 & 4000 wet and dry, then polished the sanding marks out with a medium cut polish on a polishing pad, then a fine polish on a soft pad to clear things up completly.

They weren't too bad to begin with really....



After....

Voodoomelon

Meguiars PlastX is the business also, you can pick some up on eBay. The reversing bulbs in my car burn very hot and dull the clear lenses very quickly, PlastX sorts them out no problem.

ejmaztec

Seperate wrote: »

I did a quick headlight restoration on a car I had in a couple of weeks ago...

I used 2000 & 4000 wet and dry, then polished the sanding marks out with a medium cut polish on a polishing pad, then a fine polish on a soft pad to clear things up completly.

They weren't too bad to begin with really....



After....

A fine job done.:cool:

What brand of polish did you use?

I saw a 3M kit on my Google search, where a lacquer is included for putting a coating on afterwards, but I don't know whether this has something to do with replacing the UV coating that the lenses apparently have in the first place. The "surface sealant" mentioned in hellboy99's kit could be the same kind of thing.

Seperate

I used Meguiar's #83 & #80

I put some of this on afterwards. Did my own lights about 18months ago, put some of it on every time i wax my car (every 4-6 washes) and they are still clear and cloud-free!

michaeljmorgan

I've used Brasso, works well.

shooter88

michaeljmorgan wrote: »

I've used Brasso, works well.

IL second that..works a treat

T-Maxx

Toothpaste (smells nice and fresh too )

pa990

12-04-2010, 17:06

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TGi666

T-Maxx wrote: »

Toothpaste (smells nice and fresh too )

I tried that myself and made no difference

dr.fuzzenstein

T-Maxx wrote: »

Toothpaste (smells nice and fresh too )

And probably costs a bit less than a lot of the assorted snake oil products available on the market. Just because it's in a fancy bottle with some impressive graphics doesn't make it any better, but really there's only one way to find out. Several identical headlights and several products.
For exapmle there are a million products availbale to get tar off your car, but I find white spirit works perefectly fine.

colm_mcm

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