and he left his big f'n toolbox in the garage when i decided to to see what he had in it...out popped 2000 grit sand paper and i thought wtf can i do with this. i looked at my headlights and noticed "damn i can hardly see through them", so i decided "hay lets sand the covers down to make them clear of rock chips".

it worked great until it dryed (wet dry sand paper)there was a light haze on the headlight, so i decided to get out the ole tooth paste and have a go with that, washed it off and after a few coats of car wax on the headlights instant new headlights...just wish i had my old digicam to take pics

dunno if this has been done before and im sure there are products to do this, but hey i was bored

 

 

I'm going to have to agree...not the best idea.

There is a product called Novus. It comes in 3 grades and is polish specifically designed for plastics. I have seen pics of what it has done for yellowed, chipped headlights and it's pretty amazing. I have 1 and 2 (light and medium) and have used it on a couple things with good results. 2000 grit is fine, but not nearly fine enough. People use 2000 grit on their paint (DON'T USE 2000 GRIT ON YOUR PAINT) but then follow up with a lot of polishing to remove the marks.

I thought you had to order it, but I actually just saw some next to the s100 wax at my local harley dealership...might be a good place to try for anyone interested.

 

lol the org's very own Martha Stewart

love to see some picks... see how they look

 

hah. amd thats a good thing

 

I bought all three stages of Novus online, the 8oz starter kit. It is good stuff. It's great for fixing scratched CD's, DVD's, and PlayStation games. The only thing about the headlights is you will have to do some major buffing to get the deep marks out. The sandpaper to start followed by Novus might work well. I tried stage 3 followed by 2 then 1.

I gave mine a quick attempt, haven't spent a lot of time yet. It is definitley better but by no means is perfect yet. All the small imperfections are gone and they are very clear but the bigger pits are still there. I need to spend some time on them, I'm sure, if I want to get them looking new.

 

I mean, yea, if you want to get the pits out you could sand then Novus, but you don't want to polish off half the thickness of the plastic either. A lot of pits are too deep to reasonably get rid of without weakening the plastic. Personally I would just leave the puits and polish out the scratches...but that's just me. Novus is pretty agressive based on what I've seen on clored plastics that I can see it taking off..

 

either way my way worked great..took very little off and worked exactly the way i wanted it to

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