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| Thread ID: 142891 | 2016-10-02 22:16:00 | headlight Cleaning | kahawai chaser (3545) | PC World Chat |
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| 1426829 | 2016-10-02 22:16:00 | Anyone recommend/applied a headlight cleaning kit? My car headlights quite cloudy, starting to bother me now. About 50 bucks from Super Cheap, but seems a non branded product. Seen vids, but involve multiple grit wet sanding, wiping/-spraying, then clear coating. Want' easy, simple minimal work kit. E bay has cheap - medium priced products from Croatia, UK, and USA. But all kinds of kit types and brands ---Rain X, 3M, Mothers, Sylvania. Permatex, Turtle Wax, etc. Kind of like...and trust USA made products though.. |
kahawai chaser (3545) | ||
| 1426830 | 2016-10-02 22:30:00 | Jiff, toothpaste, glass polish | plod (107) | ||
| 1426831 | 2016-10-02 22:40:00 | Jiff, toothpaste, glass polish Did do that on another car a few years back (without Jiff), with a white sock...Worked long term. i'm sure I did it on current headlights but went dull again after week. Could be because of the bright HID bulbs though, dulling the lens quicker. But will do again with Jiff also. Thanks... |
kahawai chaser (3545) | ||
| 1426832 | 2016-10-02 23:55:00 | Would Brasso work? seen it used on other things that weren't brass because it has a very fine grit in it | dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1426833 | 2016-10-02 23:56:00 | Jiff, toothpaste, glass polish If very bad start with wet&dry paper. |
CliveM (6007) | ||
| 1426834 | 2016-10-03 00:35:00 | I bought a kit a few years ago because the WOF guy at VTNZ said I needed to do the van lights. I can't remember what it cost, but it came with a drill attachment, a bottle of white goo, and a cloth of some kind. It worked really well - the lights (well, the outside plastic "lens") returned to almost new condition from being yellow and opaque. I used the stuff later prior to selling that van, and on our current camper van, and it seems like a good product. I bought it from Repco - I am away from home at present so I can't tell you the product name, only that it came in a red box and the business end of the drill attachment was a collection of sponges laid out in a dome shape (like those mushroom things your mother/grandmother/great grandmother used to darn socks...). | John H (8) | ||
| 1426835 | 2016-10-03 01:45:00 | Brasso as dugimodo says, on a buffing pad. It will take a long time though. Wet and dry, you'd have to use very very fine grades in the 1000's to get to optical quality, and progress slowly through the grades removing all trace scratches from the previous grade. You will probably have to finish off with Brasso, or Jeweller's Rouge. |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 1426836 | 2016-10-03 01:49:00 | The glass polish I use is glint. a blue cream. | plod (107) | ||
| 1426837 | 2016-10-03 02:08:00 | I'd try Handy Andy first with a plastic scourer pad. If it doesn't help try Mantis scratch remover from an auto shop. Of course the clouding could on the interior of the headlight housing, in which case, apart from the hassle of removing the glass/perspex should be easier. | Greg (193) | ||
| 1426838 | 2016-10-03 05:30:00 | When I was Sioux flight I should have stolen a bottle of perspex polish we used on the B47 (like the MASH helicopter) | prefect (6291) | ||
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