Headlight restoration question
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After researching this about four years ago, it was determined this one was best. Follow the directions to the T, and you should get good results. It even comes with a lifetime guarantee (save your receipt!), which I took them up on last year. It was going on three years, and the headlights were beginning to get a little hazy.
Comes with all the necessary materials, including three different grits of sandpaper. The most important being the UV blocker (the final step), which keeps the headlights looking good longer.
Comes with all the necessary materials, including three different grits of sandpaper. The most important being the UV blocker (the final step), which keeps the headlights looking good longer.
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Have used this kit as well. Worked well.
You don't own a drill? OK. Git you a stick o butter and shmeer it on the headlight. Buff off wit a rag. Lasts for days I guarantee, just like most of the hillbilly internet methods. Or buy a drill, get a quality kit and be done with it for a few years.
AFter watching Youtube vids for a night, I decided to try 0000 steel wool and Mequiar's Aluminum Mag Wheel Polish. Works great getting the worst of it off. Used an Amazon drill polish kit with the Mequiar's to finish it off. Wiped down with alcohol and sprayed with clear coat.
Wet sand 600 grit to clean clear plastic. Get through the factory coating. Spray a 2k clear and be done for many years.
I used this kit on two different cars, and worked well - all done by hand, no drill required. Kit has everything, including UV coating/sealer. Kit can probably do 4 or 5 cars easily.
Buy new head light assemblies. It worked for my 07 F150.
Wow, there's an idea. Sure nobody thought of that before.
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I second the Cerakote kit/method if you do not want to use a mechanical drill/buffer. It comes with 8 oxidation remover wipes, 2 grits of velcro attachable sandpaper disks (2 each), a nice sandpaper disk palm grip/holder, 4 cerakote/ceramic wipes, and gloves. Might even be able to stretch it out and get 2 vehicles' headlights done. Might seem weird not to need a polishing step, but that final grit of sandpaper is used to give the ceramic the ability to stick better, to which it self-levels fairly well, if you followed the directions.Cerakote worked well for me. No drill required.Headlights are 11 years old.
Not personally tested for durability, but i think the protective coating will last a very long time; they claim lifetime, which to me could be 4-10 years. I have no reason to doubt that claim, as their trim restorer has one of the best, longest lasting, and easiest to apply trim restore product that I have used by far.
FWIW this guy did a review on the kits and found 3M and Sylvania the best.
