Out of the goodness of her heart, my sister decided she would do me a favor and clean my car. (She actually owed me money and I decided to knock off a hundred if she did.) Anyways as I was saying, she cleaned it pretty well, however she cleaned my headlights with Goo-Gone thinking that would make them shine again. The end result is that my headlights are heavily covered with scratches and blemishes.

Are there any solutions to get rid of this? I tried washing with various chemicals, letting water run, using polish, using a paste, but nothing seems to work.

Well if there aren't any solutions, can anyone suggest a place to get a set of headlights mildly cheap for a 98 max?

 

What year Maxima do you have?

 

Why did she use Goo-Gone on the headlights?
Maybe light sanding might help

for cheap headlights check the for sale, junk yard, or ebay. Also your pretty nice to knock off $100 if she cleaned your car.

 

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Tell her you're not knocking off $100 now, and that she needs to buy you new headlights instead

 

try that Plastx....i forget who makes it , meguires perhaps. they have it at the auto parts store. I hear very good things about it, im gonna get some to unhaze my headlights

 

Googone probably wouldnt have done nothing on Glass, but since your lights are plastic, I assume its like hitting them with sandpaper... So, to remove it, use sandpaper..

Sand the lights down to a polish, im thinknig 800-2000grit and then throw on alot of plastic polish, or rubbing compound should work?

 

Most likely Novus plastic cleaner and then the polish will clean them up. A little easier to find would be the meguiars version, which should work as well.

 

+ 1. I recently used Goo-Gone to remove some tar on my headlights and after I was done I had a nice haze to show for it. I hit it with some plastic cleaner and then some polish and its was good as new again. Good luck to you.

 

3M plastic polish and plastic cleaner.

 

Sounds like a similar i had not too long ago... i just used bug&tar remover from turtle wax.. it said on the lable that plastic was kool... then find some kind of polish for it at the auto store

 

use meguairs mag n aluminum polish for steel. it works pretty well. you will have light scratches afterwards. then just use a scratch remover n then a waxer. hope that helps you. oh, i used goof-off and goo-gone on my mom's minivan, it was already messed up so i tried anything. then i used the mag n aluminun polish, worked great!!! n then i used it on my car..hehehehehehe

 

Yes that stuff works like a charm!!!!!

 

i can never find plastx, anyone have an online site to order it from

 

Went to an autozone; they had these pads that I just hook onto my drill and it buffs up my headlight...

It does take effort, but it removes scratches as well. Its beginning to look as good as new.

 

Thats stinks the stuff is really powerful, well its a lesson learned, expensive one too

 

I'd recommend the Novus for this particular issue. Start with Novus 3, go to Novus 2 and finish up with Novus 1.

 

Note to self : put goo-gone in garbage can. This stuff really doesn't do the miracles it used to do in the old days....

 

mothers make a great clear palstic polish. try that.

 

You can find the plastic polish online and it works very well on the headlights, taillights, side markers, etc. I bought both brands over the net and tested them against each other on my 4 wheeler. Since a 4 wheeler has plastic body panels, I figured these products would help clean them up. It worked pretty well on a sun bleached old 4 wheeler.

The Plastix brand worked a little better than the Mother's, but either one should clean up your headlights.