Just throwing up this review since I recently cleaned up my headlights after putting it off for a while.
My headlights are have a dull/yellow look to them, I'm guessing due to being plastic and the heat from the HID's wouldn't help either. It's just oxidisation after a long period which is seen on a lot of cars.
I've seen plenty of cars suffer the same thing, so I thought I'd give this a shot.
Equipment used:
800 Grit wet/dry sandpaper
1200 Grit wet/dry sandpaper
MEGUIARS Medium Cutting Compound
MEGUIARS Swirl/Scratch Remover
Bucket of water
How it currently looks:
Some of the products I used (didn't use the turtle wax though, will do it after I get Plastx):
Started off by sanding the back the headlight to remove all the excess crap on it.
[NO IMAGE] Quite self explanitory. (check out the video if required)
Then simply wiped on some MEGUIARS Medium Cutting Compound:
Let it haze and simply buffed it off:
Still not good enough..
Applied another layer of the cutting compound to go over it again:
Buffed:
Looking a bit better.
Then applied the Swirl/Scratch remover (not that I needed to, a polish would have been better but I didn't have any lying around.)
Buffed:
That's a bit better. But can still get better with better products.
The reults will be much better with a plastic polish such as:
But I didn't have any and most shops were closed today so the swirl remover played the role of polishing and it didn't do a bad job either!
See the difference for yourself:
BEFORE:
AFTER:
I'm sure there are other products you can use, but if you are tight on a budget, you can use any cutting compound/polish that you have lying around. Most of the work is done when you sand it back.
All in all, not bad for 10 minutes of your time for each headlight.
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