Oxidation was making my headlights look rather ill.
Picked up some Meguairs PlastX polish and it worked very well. Was super-easy to do as well. Bout 20-30 mins per housing.
You can see how much grime I pulled off by polishing the clean headlight.

 

Wet sanding looks even better...

Gets rid of all the stone marks on the lens.

 

 

Looks good. I'll be doing mine next weekend, but I'll use my PC.

 

Thanks for that info, my lights were starting to get nasty as well. Did you polish that by hand? And can that polish be applied by a polisher?

 

Thanks Bluesbrekr


I did polish by hand. Notice the applicator pad in the firt pic. I imagine it can be applied by a polisher, looks like Bluesbrekr is doing it.
It was very easy doing by hand as well. I did it twice per housing. Basically a cleaning 1st treatment and then an actual polishing second treatment.

 

I was wondering for some time how well that product worked, I have been wet sanding for awhile and am getting lazy. Maybe I'll try and give it a go, nice before and after pics by the way =)

 

Looks good I wet sanded and buffed mine this last weekend... can't believe the difference it made in the looks... awesome...

 

Here are my headlights before wetsanding (but after PlastX):




Now after wetsanding (and an AE mod):



It takes about 30-45min per lens, depending on how pitted they are. Mine had some deeper ones and took longer, but well worth the effort.

 

what grade do you guys use to wet sand. i polished my lights and they made a big difference but all the little nics still bother me.

 

Started with 800-->1500-->2000

Then finish with PlastX.

 

where can i get a better tie/holder like that one in HIS pics?

 

Thanks. Couldn't be more pleased. I don't have a whole lot of pits and didn't even have to remove the headlights. Much easier and can't see it being worth the extra effort.

 

BTW: Nice job hiding your O2's and SIM.

The lights gook good too.
Cleaning tip: Warm suddys water wet sand them down starting with 1500 > 2000> and higher if you can find it. After you are done sanding and if you have a DA or porter cable orbital polisher clean and pollish with "Brasso".

I know it says it is for metal,,,trust me just "try it on plastic".
Try it on Anything Plastic like a scratched up CD case.

Brasso Brass Polish Eight Ounce Can $2.99

http://www.stanleylondon.com/brasso.htm


Your light will look better than the day you got the car new.
(well, if you got your car new that is)

*Also work great on iPods, iPod cases, and radio displays.

 

PS: You can get Brasso at your local Food Store / Super Market which most are open 24 hours. It can be found in the cleaning isle by Tar-nex and Old English and other cleaners.

 

You work for Brasso don't you...

 

I use Mother's mag and aluminium polish on my headlights and it clears them up really good. I recently wetsanded my headlights due to a chemical spill on the highway that ended up etching marks into my headlights (and front bumper) but I haven't hit them up with the porter cable yet...I gotta do that sooner or later but finals are killing me!

 

I've been using 3M cleaner & polish: ;might have to try this Meguairs PlastX.

Here's a good write-up for wetsanding the headlights: http://forums.maxima.org/showthread....79#post4528379

 

if it's not too bad then skip straight to 1500 then 2000. i personally think 800 is a little too tough.

 

Epacy... where did you get your battery tie down?

+1 for the wet sanding. Then again I tinted my headlights so I don't really need to worry about this anymore.

 

Actually the sim sits under this. Just didn't have it on.




Sport Compact Only.

 

Those look real nice Epacy, I'll have to try that sometime this weekend or something.

 

Just bought a bottle of Plastx today. It worked great for cleaning up the oxidization. I may try out the wet sanding as I do have some pitting. But yeah, the Plastx works great with little effort.

 

EPACY !!! thank you for starting this thread was wondering how to clean my headlights.. there really fogy going to try the PlasticX .. And try to learn about wet sand off that link that somebody left earlier in the thread..

 

No problem. The results were just too good to keep to myself