A little plastic headlight polishing...

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I didn't take a before of the driver's side light, but it compared pretty much to the passenger side... so this will have to do for a before/after...



headlights.jpg






process

PC w/4" spot pads for all steps:

SFX1 pad, Optimum Hyper Compound (x5 or so) (speed 6)

SFX2 pad, Meguiar's #17 Clear Plastic Cleaner (speed 5-6)

SFX3 pad, Meguiar's #10 Clear Plastic Polish (speed 3-4)



I really worked the Optimum, heated up the plastic pretty good. I don't know if it did a ton of scratch removal, but it looked PRETTY good. The Meguiar's products really made a significant difference, I think mostly due to their plastic-specific nature, probably filling fine scratches and such. I worked both of those really well until they nearly disappeared.



So there you go. I'll take some afters of the passenger side headlight when I'm done with that.



The car has about 85k miles on it and is more than six years old (purchased new by me). Not bad, I say! :)
 
WOW looks great.. i saved the second one because it looked so cool

Jeremiah you can use meguair's plastx by hand, but you have to work it in well by hand. i tried doing it by hand once and it took less then 30 mins
 
Wow, excellent results! I'm sure that cut the glare from your HIDs significantly, as well as FURTHER sharpening those industry-leading projector cut-offs of yours =)
 
Very nice. I have this on my to-do list for my new Protege5. SSR 2.5 didn't really seem to attack much, but I didn't work it that long I guess.
 
thanks everyone. it worked out really well. I think that while the abrasive polished helped, the Meguiar's 10/17 combo was really the clincher in this situation.
 
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