tied to remove some scratches on my headlights using the the same methode i used on my foglight lenses, unfortunatly unlike my foglights there was a clearcoat on my headlights, there to protect the plastic from UV lighyt and provide some scratch resistance. so now there is a patch of exposed plastic w/o clearcoat that i am going to have to polish every couple of months.

anyone know of a clearcoat i could use to refinish the lens, that would provide some UV & scratch protection, or am i just going to have to live w/ this?

 

Since when are the headlights clearcoated? How do you know there is a clearcoat on some of it now and not on other areas?

 

these are aftermarket headlights,but oem plastic lenses probably has it as well. the edge where the bare plastic meets the clearcoat can be seen, i didnt know what it was at first but after a little reasearch i found out that polycarbonate is pretty volitile when exposed and will typicaly yellow if not protected, there is a clearcoat applied to polycarbonate to protect it from UV and the enviroment,

 

I have never heard that headlights (OEM) are clearcoated. Like you said, the plastic will yellow or haze when exposed to environmental pollutants. I usually polish the headlights on every car I detail, with Mothers Plastic Polish because I frequently see yellowed or hazed headlights. The Mothers bottle specifically says it is "great for headlight covers".

 

the ****** that painted your front hit the headlights with clearcoat after painting the front