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Old 12-12-2004 | 11:43 AM
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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
Old 12-16-2004 | 03:34 PM
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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.....
Old 12-16-2004 | 05:18 PM
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what is wet sanding? my head lights are getting really hazy ive tried a few things but nothing really seems to work.
Old 12-16-2004 | 05:58 PM
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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.

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Old 12-16-2004 | 07:35 PM
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could you send me some pics my email is skizer5556@aol.com thanks.
Old 12-17-2004 | 03:40 PM
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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.

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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.
Old 12-17-2004 | 03:41 PM
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PC = porter cable 7424
Old 12-17-2004 | 07:49 PM
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Originally Posted by E55AMG2
PC = porter cable 7424
or 7336. They're both basically the same thing.
Old 12-17-2004 | 08:50 PM
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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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