Plastic headlights

[reflections]

What`s a good product for polishing plastic headlight units?? consider price, how many cars per bottle and ease of use? came accross Autosol in Eastwood Company`s website.

[andriver]

I usually use Vanilla Moose on my headlights. You can also use PB Professional Polish. Works for me.

[Beemerboy]

PB Por polish is great also Novus which you can get online is about the best that I have used. It comes in 3 different strenghts, a heavy cut to a polish cut

[JimS]

Mequairs Scratch X did a great job on a set of 93 Caddilac taillights I put in my Chevy pu rool pan. It cleaned them up, polished them and got rid of minor imperfections. And, it`s available at your friendly Auto Zone...or whatever.

Poorboys SSR`s do a great job on plastic that needs working. Great stuff. ALL his products work great!

[57chevy]

I recently used 3M Plastic Cleaner and Plastic Polish on my 10 year old Van - tail light covers and all other plastic including the bug shield which also is 10 years old and they look new again. I used very little material and the results were awesome. I don`t recall what the price was but for both (8 0z. each) I`m sure it was under $10 and should go along way. It was very easy to use rub-on and rub-off. I got these at Murray`s Discount Auto not sure where you live but AutoZone may have it.

[blkyukon]

I used metal polish and Plexus on this 87 Mustang:

Before:

http://users.ca.astound.net/blkyukon/cars/images/55.jpg


After:

http://users.ca.astound.net/blkyukon/cars/images/56.jpg

Works better then the Novus 3 step I had been using.

[Divergent]

Originally posted by blkyukon
I used metal polish and Plexus on this 87 Mustang:

Before:

http://users.ca.astound.net/blkyukon/cars/images/55.jpg


After:

http://users.ca.astound.net/blkyukon/cars/images/56.jpg

Works better then the Novus 3 step I had been using.

Holy smokes, that`s impressive! I picked up a bottle of Meguiar`s PlastX when I was grocery shopping at Fred Meyer the other day and it definitely seemed to clean up the haziness in my 86 camry.

[zymolKK]

Yeah i usually stick some kind of polish on them playing around just to see what happens. Although if they arent in too bad of shape and just need a lil touchingup, i use plexus - it works great!!

[dalmore]

Originally posted by blkyukon
I used metal polish and Plexus on this 87 Mustang:

Would any old metal polish work, do you think? Is this the same stuff you would use on your tailpipe?

:newbie

[reflections]

Originally posted by blkyukon
I used metal polish and Plexus on this 87 Mustang:

Before:

http://users.ca.astound.net/blkyukon/cars/images/55.jpg


After:

http://users.ca.astound.net/blkyukon/cars/images/56.jpg

Works better then the Novus 3 step I had been using.

by hand or PC with a polishing pad? any metal polish? where can I find Plexus?

[dalmore]

plexus is usually in the convertible top care section of whatever online detail store you`re browsing. it would shock me if our DC sponsors didn`t carry it ....

[blkyukon]

Originally posted by dalmore
Would any old metal polish work, do you think? Is this the same stuff you would use on your tailpipe?


I used Clearkote metal polish on those, but people have used others with the same results



by hand or PC with a polishing pad? any metal polish?

I did those with a PC and a white CMA pad, low speed. I`ve also done some others by hand with good results, though. Just remember not to generate heat when polishing or it might cloud the plastic.


where can I find Plexus?
Here, http://www.premiumautocare.com/plexus.html

[JimS]

Come to think of it I used my Dremel with the PlastiX on a set of taillights.