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so, I had some body work done on my car and the shop replaced the driver side headlight and it's nice and new. but now I have a pretty ugly passenger headlight. any tips or tricks to get rid of the haze? thanks!
if it's really mild, even toothpaste works well to remove some haze.
but as silverbullet415 said, if it's nasty, you'll need to step up to something more "industrial strength" and get a chemical based one like the meguiars.
$20 at Amazon, unless you want to stop by your local car shop...
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just saw the reviews about Meguiar's PlastX...for $8 on Amazon for the bottle only...it looks like a winner! the $20 kit mentioned above has the towels and sponges included...so it might be overkill.
oOOooo, I've got something better.... get the 3m headlight restoration kit. It's only $20 but if you think about it, they just give you a bunch of sandpaper and a small packet of wax. But trust me, this thing works! I just used it on my gf's car and the lenses look like brand new, her car is a 96 so you know it's got some issues. Here's a link to the video on youtube on how to do it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_t1RB...layer_embedded
Lucky for me GC's have glass headlights . I have used Plastic X before on my cousins 94 Legacy and on my MR2's tail lights. It worked well at first, but for me the lights got foggy again after only a few weeks. And I spent like 15 minutes per light using the meguiers foam pad to buff it. Maybe I did something wrong?
So I got the same problem, don't know how bad mine is but here's some pics, lemme know if the meguires stuff is good or if I need some thing more industrial, thanks!driver headlight.jpg
I tried both of the Meguires products, one is a plastic restoritive...after a good rain they yellow up again, or at least mine did...mine look terrible, as bad as anyone elses I've seen.
I guess I need to try the sandpaper...but the wax will work only until it gets worn off, like the plastic X that I used before.
if it's really mild, even toothpaste works well to remove some haze.
but as silverbullet415 said, if it's nasty, you'll need to step up to something more "industrial strength" and get a chemical based one like the meguiars.
$20 at Amazon, unless you want to stop by your local car shop...
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just saw the reviews about Meguiar's PlastX...for $8 on Amazon for the bottle only...it looks like a winner! the $20 kit mentioned above has the towels and sponges included...so it might be overkill.
Yup...tooth paste works quite well. If it doesn't, THEN buy the PlasticX, etc. stuff.
. I have used Plastic X before on my cousins 94 Legacy and on my MR2's tail lights. It worked well at first, but for me the lights got foggy again after only a few weeks. And I spent like 15 minutes per light using the meguiers foam pad to buff it. Maybe I did something wrong?
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