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I think this happens to all plastic headlights unless you wax them regularly. I have never waxed them on my truck. Hell I have never even waxed the truck and the paint still looks like new.
Six months later and my son reports that the lenses still look like the day I polished them. Not that it's impossible but it's hard to screw it up with their directions. Til something better comes along I'll use the 3M lense kit.
One of my clients has a used car lot and they actually have a guy that does this for a business. He cleans head light lenses.
Thought they were kidding till I saw him pull up at their lot one day, never really payed any attention to how or what he did but the lights looked great when he was done
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I did the wet sanding thing on my headlights using 2000 grit for the final sanding. I then buffed them with rubbing compound and waxed them. They came out looking great with about an hour of work------oh and one more thing, be sure to tape off the area around the headlight lens so you can go at it with gusto and to make sure you don't scratch up anything else.
Six months later and my son reports that the lenses still look like the day I polished them. Not that it's impossible but it's hard to screw it up with their directions. Til something better comes along I'll use the 3M lense kit.
Not trying to derail...but can you do the same on a plexiglass windscreen? Bought a boat from a guy that I swear must have dropped a sponge in the sand before cleaning the windscreen. It drives me nuts looking at it in the sun.
Not trying to derail...but can you do the same on a plexiglass windscreen? Bought a boat from a guy that I swear must have dropped a sponge in the sand before cleaning the windscreen. It drives me nuts looking at it in the sun.
Yes.
It is definitely a VW thing. I am working on my 06 Jetta lenses right now. It was under warranty and they refused to replace them which is BS IMO. If its under the bumper to bumper warranty and failing, it should be covered. If my paint was doing this it would be covered. I know thsi happens especially here in the south but My 04 Dodge headlights look fine and the 06 Jettas are very bad.
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I bought the Maguiar's version and it works pretty well - not perfect. It got about 85% of the severe haze off the lamps of a Volvo SUV we have.
(Here's a helpful hint I learned the hard way: take your headlamp out of the car first unless you don't mind vibrating a HID bulb to pieces and replacing for over $100...)
I think the key is to have the headlights sprayed with a catalyzed clear coat finish to prevent them from turning cloudy again. The clear coat is nasty stuff health wise, so if you don't have the proper equipment, take them to your local body shop after you sanded and buffed them to have them painted.
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I fixed my wife's car just a few weeks ago and it only took me about 15 min per lens and I didn't buy any kit. I masked off the lights like in the pic above, then I wet sanded each lens. I had some rubbing compound left over from the boat and used a little bit of that on my pollisher to clean things up.
I was watching one of the Trucks shows a few weeks back and they said to do the samething. They also said if you don't have any compound you can use toothpaste to polish them out.
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