Cleaning foggy or yellowed headlights

[Pianohawk]

I'm excited to try the baking soda/water method when I get home, see the following link. (http://www.ehow.com/how_4488636_clean-haze-off-car-headlights.html) I'm just curious if anyone's done this or had experience removing the yellow haze off their boxster headlights...any suggestions?

[sd_boxster]

I haven't used baking soda - seems a little too abrasive to me - but I have used plastic polish and buffing wheel to buff out headlights in the past. Auto parts stores generally sell a kit with a buffing wheel and plastic polish for under $20. This definitely did not result in a like-new appearance, but it was my sister-in-law's SUV, so whatever.

Were this my Boxster, I'd remove the lights and take them to a local body shop to be sanded and clear coated - there are a couple of places around here that do headlight restoration.

If you do wind up doing it yourself, post before and after pics!

[Cloudsurfer]

Wet sand them with 1500 to 2000 grit sandpaper, and then polish with a plastic polish (such as the Mcguires Headlight Kit) and they'll look 1000% better.

[violametallic-S-]

I always thought the fogging was coming from the inside....

[Pianohawk]

I followed the directions on http://www.ehow.com/how_4488636_clean-haze-off-car-headlights.html.

The before picture shows the results of Cascade Collision's $29.99 headlight restoration job. The after pic was taken immediately following the baking soda/water polish job my wife and I did tonight.

Maybe Cascade Collision didn't do as good a job as others probably would, but our baking soda and water concoction made a nice improvement.

If you give it a try let us know the results! (takes 5-15 minutes)


Before baking soda and water



After baking soda/water

[Pat]

You might appreciate my write-up:
http://forums.audiworld.com/showthread.php?p=2627541