Cleaning Yellowing Headlights, Oxidation & Clouding

[Don Dada]

Meguiars now has this kit minus the drill of course

Although to get best results u NEED to get some wet 2000 grit paper and give the light a rub first....u will actually see all the yellow/brown shit running off with the water then u use the buffing pad and polish as recommended

The wet sand produces a much better finish and it last longer than if u use just the polish

The Mothers kit has the rubbing pads included...dont know why the hell meguiars didn't include it too

[our12]

Hi.

This subject has been done to death in the past.

Dont waste your money on these overpriced "fixes" , Go and buy a tin of" brasso "from the supermarket it will bring them up like new and you can spend the money you save on something else.

[mad082]

i used meguires scratch-x with a woolen buffing pad on the drill. takes like 10 seconds per light (takes you longer to get the drill, etc).

advantage of scratch-x is that you can use it on the paint as well.

[Birds]

One word: Glassylite.

[maklaw]

hey Mate,i had same problem ,regarding ugly looking headlight's.i read number's of post in here about "how to restore headlight's" i found so many usefull things in them.

But never got courage to sand my car's headlight's,one day i was in Repco in port adelaide area.And i found headlight restoration kit on spacial,i think it was $50 but i got them $35 as i remember.

i just follow the instruction,yeah i sand my car's headlight and they are looks brand new.

kit called "headlight restoration kit" and made in USA company name Invision..check it out mate,wont disappoint ya.

hey one more thing,they gave me couple of small sand papers(wet and dry),that was not enough so i bought couple of them from MITER10,(wet and dry sand papers,400,600,800,1000,1500,2000)and sand my car's headlight's properly and then follow the instructions and all good..

[Don Dada]

hey one more thing,they gave me couple of small sand papers(wet and dry),that was not enough so i bought couple of them from MITER10,(wet and dry sand papers,400,600,800,1000,1500,2000)and sand my car's headlight's properly and then follow the instructions and all good..

Dude...u dont need such coarse paper!!!!

U are just giving your self extra work by creating scratches with the 400 and then trying to clean it up moving up in grades....after a few polishes that way u might not even have any lens remain!

2000 alone is more than enough and u must use it wet

[boiracer]

ive searched like crazy but cant find it. someone has a full write up on doing this to his R34 without buying a very overpriced kit. just alot of elbow grease and the right products............anyone know where its gone?

ive read alot about just polishing them....but the more you polish the faster and worse it comes back.

[ARTZ]

yeah i got one of those kits and they are rubbish..the only good thing in them is the uv potectant which im sure you could purchase on its own somewhere..

What they contain is

5 grades sandpaper...avoid sanding at all cost if you do just use 2000grit, otherwise you will spend ages buffing small scratches that will never really come out .1 sheet of 2000 grit paper is about 1$ .

Special cleaning formula...its f**kin windex your mum will have it in her kitchen cupboard

buffing compound... Well most of us have a bottle of scratchx or similar for our paintwork anyway so why buy more as an added bonus the scrathx will work better thn the stuff they give you.

chux clothes and a scourer...also in your mums kitchen cupboard

So for 1$ and a trip to mums you have cleaned your headlights just as well as a 35$ kit If you dont sand them you shouldnt need the uv prtectant anyway...

Anyway i learnt the hard way but lucky for me the guy at autobahn forgot to scan my kit so it was free anyway..

But dont waste your money on it kids..better yet ,use the money you save to buy your mum some flowers you know she deserves them, oh and tell her i said Hi

[boiracer]

mum says hi back, and you can come pick up your panties any time

yeah just bought a bottle of plastix, 1 sheet of 2000 grit, and thats about it. platix has the protectant in it apparently, thats why i bought it over scratchx. total cost $23. and im sure it will do alot more headlights than the kit does for $40

the plastix should do most of the cleaning anyways. and ive got a clean aplicator pad here anyways so im set.

oh, and dont forget to get some masking tape for around the bumper and grill so you dont sand and polish it.

Edited March 16, 2011 by boiracer

[ARTZ]

plastix hey.

Will that work on other plastic as well, like the cowl panel under the wipers for instance, mines rather faded

[J34]

plastix hey.

Will that work on other plastic as well, like the cowl panel under the wipers for instance, mines rather faded

Keep putting armourall on it and it will get better... slowly.

I've used

PlasticX

ScratchX

and glassylite or whatever its called (basically a kit.

Plastic X in my opinion was to harsh and left fine scratches, it cost alot and i've never used it again.

Scratch X i use regularly and it's pretty much the same as plasticX but doesn't leave scratches.

Glassylite was probly the best but it lasts about 8 months to a year then you have to buy another kit and do it again.