Hey guys, I searched as best as I can using Google's "site:" function, but never found this ever being mentioned, in regards to the haze the 2K2-2K3 clears tend to get through time.

There have been some walkthroughs dealing with sandpapering through increasing grit numbers, all the way to polishing.

Well, I was speaking with my friend who happens to own his own shop (he's very particular about all cars he works on, especially his), and also owns a couple of cars that have HID clears similar to ours (S2000/BMW). This was when I first picked up my Max, and I asked him about the haze. He said this is a normal thing, and that he uses brass cleaner to clean his headlights. I haven't had a chance to test this theory until tonight, and I must say, for about 5-10 mins of work, without having to take the headlights off, I am pretty surprised. The pics below don't do it justice, as it was taken with a camera phone that didn't pick up the garage lighting too well, but you can still see the significant difference.

I used:

• Brasso - 2.97 at Lowe's
• Terrycloth for the application
• An old, but clean and soft sacrificial t-shirt for polishing

I simply followed the directions on the can regarding application, which is apply with a clean cloth/rag, rubbing vigorously, then polish with a soft, clean cloth/rag.

Pics -

Before:


After:


This was just an experiment on my part that turned out well, fortunately. If I was more prepared, I would have bought one of those powerball polishers, and I bet the headlights would be gleaming even more.

 

Mothers plastic polish does this quite well, too.

 

I looked at that also, but besides being much cheaper, I just liked the fact that brass cleaner has abrasive qualities, so it's almost like sandpapering with super-high grit sandpaper.

Now, that's without knowing exactly how the plastic polish works though, as it might also be abrasive.

Brasso's still cheaper.

 

plastic polish is like a very mild abrasive with something that fills in the scratches if im not mistaken

 

i had gerat results with the meguiars plastx and some rubbing compound afterwards, got rid fo the yellowing we were experienccing on our 03.

 

The whole sandpaper method is a bit of work but worth the end result especially if you have pitting or light scratches. However, if the brasso did what you needed it to do then you can't beat it. Good job. I used Mequires Plastx too and it came out great.

All you need to do now is clear out the orange lenz...

 

 

i tried the brasso...amazing...i'll post pics later.

 

how do you lcear out the orange lens? does it look much better with it cleared? any pics?

 

There's info in a sticky somewhere on how to do it.

 

Here's my results from some cheap stuff I bought at walmart for 8-9 bucks....

 

http://www.innerbean.com/housecor/clear_HIDs.html

How To's are amazing man... donate and get to searching.

 

speaking of ehadlights ...this is definately in the wrong spot but what the hell....i wanna put the 2k2 headlights on my 2k.....do i need to do any hard wiring?

 

Just wondering, when you do polish, ive heard youve removed some of the protective coating or layers of plastic.

some people say that the haze returns faster than it did before.

 

my brother's maxima headlights have a nasty habit of hazing in abo 6 months .. every time I use meguiar's plastx a couple times and it cleans it right up (at leas for the most part).