Headlight Cleaning Today

[thstone]

Had the afternoon off work so I decided to try to buff out the cloudy headlights. Used Mother's Powerball kit. "Before" on the left and "after" on the right. Took about an hour and worked pretty well!

[q2usmc]

Wow huge difference - looks great!! Nice job

Originally Posted by thstone

Had the afternoon off work so I decided to try to buff out the cloudy headlights. Used Mother's Powerball kit. "Before" on the left and "after" on the right. Took about an hour and worked pretty well!

[litespeedp]

Wish they were made of glass and wish manufacturers would stop using plastic!

Mine have not started messing up yet.Do you think keeping a coat of non abrasive carnauba car wax on them would help prevent this?

[ekam]

They still look a bit yellow but it's a huge improvement.

Putting on wax would help but once it's yellow like that it's hard to bring it back unless you remove enough material with a buffer.

[thstone]

Originally Posted by ekam

They still look a bit yellow but it's a huge improvement.

Putting on wax would help but once it's yellow like that it's hard to bring it back unless you remove enough material with a buffer.

Yes, you are absolutely correct - they look better but no where near looking new. All in all, I guess I got my $25 worth.

[nieuwhzn]

About anything will work to get the yellow layer off, I used Turtle (I usually stay away from Turtle!). As long there is a good final polishing step you're fine. The pitting is a much more difficult problem. These seem to be rather deep microcracks. You would have to remove quite a lot of material to get rid of those.