Headlight Restoration

[ol' boy]

Anyone a legend at this?

I see you can buy kits (we have one)
Also Purple Polish works amazingly

I have only ever done the Plastic headlights prone to yellowing or going foggy.

Never done glass.

This kit we bought has a polishing cream, a lubricant and 2 bits of wet n dry paper (300 and 500)

We found the Polish Cream does a great job, but the 300 and 500 wet n dry makes them cloudy again.
I'm really surprised it didn't come with 1000, 1500 and 2000 wet n dry, then use the Polish Cream....

Anyone one here use a successful procedure?

[fandtm666]

i use Cerium Oxide on windows that have small scratch's on them
works will with wet polisher.

[Godzilla]

Done this so many times ive lost count.

Exactly as you have done, start with the courser paper, working to finer, each time removing the scratches from the last grit, you want to end as fine as possible.

I just use water as the lube while rubbing (wet and dry paper)

I usually finish with Autosol as the final polish.

Now if your selling the car and just doing it to look good to the buyer and pass a roady, its OK.

If your keeping it, you need a UV resistant clear coating to stop the UV from getting back to fading the plastic lens.

Heck its also not so hard to re rub them with some polish once a year.....

[ol' boy]

We used this.....
Personally I had a better experience just using Purple Polish and a Microfibre.

[bob_m_54]

Micro-Mesh have quite a few different kits for acrylic, glass and other material restoration. We used to use one of their kits to buff out aircraft canopy nicks and scratches, but I can't remember which one it was.