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Sounds good, how much? I reckon there will be a lot of owners who like me didn't even know their headlights were cloudy, but I polished mine up yesterday after finding out they were, and the light output last night was noticably improved. The cloud must reflect a lot of the light back and stop it focusing on the road properly. |
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30th October 2011, 16:49 | #12 |
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When i got my first 75 i was very disapointed with the headlights. Noticed they were yellow so polished them.
i got a old cylinder head inlet valve (cooper s of course) wrapped a wad of open weave cotton cloth around it (making sure it still had a flat surface) and fixed it to the valve stem with string or was it wire. Loaded the new "mini polishing disc" into a cordless drill and set to with a tin of metal polish. Finished off with T`Cut applied in the same way (fresh piece of cloth) and wax polish. Magic! |
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Sorry to open a new thread but I am attempting this tomorrow on a car I am selling . Do you think I can do it with a cordless drill as I don't have a polished. He car failed its mot on the lights so you can imagine they are pretty bad.
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Be very wary of applying too much pressure or speed, you could melt the lens.
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I only have a drill. Is it possible ?
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28th December 2012, 20:57 | #16 |
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OK .. I have bout the 3M headlight restoration kit that fits on your drill..I'll be doing it over the next week so will post before and after pictures and do a review if anyone is interested.
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Pretty much any heavy polish/compound will do with a drill polishing head. I did mine by hand, hard work, but still possible. Wet sand and buff out, then maybe use a fine polish to finish for the best clarity. The key thing is to wax or preferably seal the lenses afterwards with something like a synthetic sealant or rain repellent. It will make them not only look clearer, but will protect the newly exposed plastic.
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I spent quite a while reading about this because mine look terrible. I was thinking about having them polished at the same time the bodywork was being mopped.
My understanding is that polishing will remove the surface protection so by rights they will then get cloudy quicker (maybe this has happened on mine). I was debating getting them coated with something following the polish. This assumes of course that our cars have a coating as they are far worse that my wife's Toyota which almost look new still (her car is the same age as mine).
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There is no coating on our headlights, the dulling / yellowing is due to the UV over time which gives the impression that its a harder surface than the newly polished light.
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