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Old 04-02-2014, 11:57 AM   #1
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How does inside of lens get scratched?

Seems mostly unlikely.

My Litronic lenses are crazed. They look perfect until you turn them on. I assume this isn't reparable.
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How does inside of lens get scratched?

Seems mostly unlikely.

My Litronic lenses are crazed. They look perfect until you turn them on. I assume this isn't reparable.
Car accidents, user accidents, etc.
Anything that causes pieces to float around inside.

One problem I've seen is people touching or trying to wash the inside of the lens during retrofit. This causes many fine scratches that can be seen extremely well with the headlights on.
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Old 04-02-2014, 08:39 PM   #3
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Nice work! It is scary the first time. I remember the first time I wet sanded the hood on my old Red 986. Have you tried skipping past several of those grits. I find with head lights I can start with 600 and jump right to 1500 and then use a medium compound than polish. Of course I'm just getting rid of sun damage, you had a bad scratch.

Again great job!
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