Hey guy just a little tip on how to save yourself a little money!!

Ok the story that got me started!!!

The other day my wife was driving my truck and told me i need new headlights....i THOUGHT to myself....well ya there brown what gave you that idea?!?!....im smart enough not to say that out loud or So i told her that it would be nice to get a new set off ebay or something and she asked me how much that would be....told her something like 200 bucks. she said well i saw a commercial on T.V. about head light restorer....THOUGHT to myself...OH maybe she did notice my headlights were brown!!!

So we were at the store the other day and she told me to buy some just to see if it would work....it was only 8 bucks so what the hell why not.....i tried to tell her that i didn't think it would work cause it looks like its on the inside of the lights...and i honestly thought that it was!!!!

Tried the stuff out today and all i can say is WOW!!! this works like no other!!! So if your bothered by having to drive around with your brights on all the time and dont have the cash to get them new cool looking headlights try a bottle of the headlight restorer....i didnt even have to use the buffing pads that are supplied just the rubbing compound and a cotton cloth !!!!!

i will add some pictures tonight...but i thought i would share a little heplful tip before i left to go watch the band play

 

Glad it works I have been wondering if that stuff would do the trick.

 

Here are the before and after shots......the only reason i did the fog lights was because they were the worst of them all!!! You totally couldn't see the insides of the light!!!


Hope i helped someone save a little money!!!

 

What brand did you use?

 

turtle wax

 

I've used it too, but after a couple of months they start to cloud up again... But they're still better than they were.

Sent from my HTC Thunderbolt.

 

i would gladly do this again in a couple months if it saves me from having to get a nes set of lights!!!

 

just a couple month update on the headlights......the did indeed cloud back up!!!

but i polished them back up again and there just as good as they were

 

Posting from experience. i have done those as well and the product works but often time it doesnt get deep enough to take out all the oxidized plastic, and the finishing product you use is most often just a glaze to fill in micro abrasions. Now the absolute best way to restore a headlight is as follows.
-Buy Plastic polishing compound
- buy a drill powered buffer wheel
- buy at least 6 descending grades of sand paper ending at a wet sanding grit (1200 or so, the finer the better)
- start sanding down your headlights with the most coarse grit, moving to a finer grit after you have gotten entire surface of light, repeat until you get to the finer ones and begin wet sanding, best way is to put a wet cloth behind sandpaper so u can squeeze out water constantly. have a bucket of water with you as well.
- dry completely, if you have done it well you should only see the headlight as a milky haze, and it be difficult to see swirls.
- apply plastic polishing compound to your buffing wheel. you can also rub it all over your headlight.
- run the buffing wheel over headlights reapplying the compound as needed.

to get the optimal result you have to get the oxidized plastic completely sanded away.

this works because the compound is actually grinding the micro abrasions together to create a smooth surface like a new lens. it will fade at the same rate the headlights did before, so resurface again in say, 10 years.

you will be amazed that they look like crystal

 

im pretty sure when it gets warm again im going to do that....the headlight kit came with 3 differant grades of sand paper but i thought that they looked a little aggressive to be using on plastic...but if what you say is indeed true i will probley make it 4 or 5 different grades of sandpaper and the last being 12-1500 grit wet paper

thanks for the tip !!!!