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NYC TAR 12-12-2004 11:43 AM

yea some autozone carry these product or you but it from the site.
3M Perfect-It™ II Rubbing
http://www.digitalriver.com/dr/v2/ec...P=0&CACHE_ID=0

or 3m 3M Plastic Cleaner
http://www.digitalriver.com/dr/v2/ec...P=0&CACHE_ID=0

2kVQboodah 12-16-2004 03:34 PM

my buddy saw in a WRX forum. to help the hazing on headlights, use toothpaste with some water. i tried it on my headlights... they look "mint" hahah that was corny. it worked pretty nice.....

skierxx5556 12-16-2004 05:18 PM

what is wet sanding? my head lights are getting really hazy ive tried a few things but nothing really seems to work.

Dave Holmes 12-16-2004 05:58 PM

Like mentioned above, wetsanding is using wet, very-fine sandpaper to sand away the "big" blenishes, then compounding and polishing to remove the sanding marks. I did mine with 1500 grit 3M wet paper, then 2000 grit. Afterwards, the headlight will look like crap until you compound or polish out the sanding marks. But after the polishing, my headlights literally looked like new. Wet-sanding is not for the squeamish or those without a meticulous attention to detail. My headlights took about 1 hour per, and that was using a PC for all compounding/polishing steps. Polishing by hand will take much longer. I have some before, during, and after pics I could zip up and email to you.

Hope this helps.

Dave

skierxx5556 12-16-2004 07:35 PM

could you send me some pics my email is skizer5556@aol.com thanks.

hollaatchaboi 12-17-2004 03:40 PM


Originally Posted by Dave Holmes
Like mentioned above, wetsanding is using wet, very-fine sandpaper to sand away the "big" blenishes, then compounding and polishing to remove the sanding marks. I did mine with 1500 grit 3M wet paper, then 2000 grit. Afterwards, the headlight will look like crap until you compound or polish out the sanding marks. But after the polishing, my headlights literally looked like new. Wet-sanding is not for the squeamish or those without a meticulous attention to detail. My headlights took about 1 hour per, and that was using a PC for all compounding/polishing steps. Polishing by hand will take much longer. I have some before, during, and after pics I could zip up and email to you.

Hope this helps.

Dave

What is the PC you're talking about? I'm about to do this and i want to know the best tool to use to polish the headlight.

E55AMG2 12-17-2004 03:41 PM

PC = porter cable 7424

white95max 12-17-2004 07:49 PM


Originally Posted by E55AMG2
PC = porter cable 7424

or 7336. They're both basically the same thing.

skierxx5556 12-17-2004 08:50 PM

i used some mothers aluminum polish tonight did that a few times and then put a real good coat of wax on them and that seemed to work good it didnt remove all of the real deep nicks and stuff but got rid of the haze and cleared them up pretty well


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