Pollishing faded headlights.

RSR 555 · Post by **RSR 555** » Thu Mar 11, 2010 3:28 am

Oh and here's the pictures which don't do them any justice as I used my crappy phone camera but they looked a million bucks

AlpineRaven · Post by **AlpineRaven** » Thu Mar 11, 2010 8:24 am

RSR 555 wrote:AWESOME... thanks AP. Dave (Subarino) brought some before I got over to his place and whilst we were playing around with his Forester I decided to give his headlights a go with this stuff :shock::shock::shock: and f**k me drunk this sh*t worked like magic. Dave is going to tell his missus that he just brought new headlights and with the extra money he saved he'll be able to buy more beer

Your welcome.
cheers
AP

tex · Post by **tex** » Wed Mar 17, 2010 1:57 pm

For glass we used to just use metho and steel wool and one of the safest best things we tried, But plastic be wary with what you use. There were also chemicals you could use on the inside too that did the reflectors as well!

SuBaRiNo · Post by **SuBaRiNo** » Wed Mar 17, 2010 8:42 pm

That PlastX worked out great... i was very very close to buying new head lights a few weeks back thinking they were too faded. But they look great now. Again the board has saved me some coin.

Thanks again
Dave

AlpineRaven · Post by **AlpineRaven** » Wed Mar 17, 2010 8:50 pm

SuBaRiNo wrote:That PlastX worked out great... i was very very close to buying new head lights a few weeks back thinking they were too faded. But they look great now. Again the board has saved me some coin.

Thanks again
Dave

They are arent they?
You can use it everytime you wash the car if needed.
Cheers
AP

RSR 555 · Post by **RSR 555** » Thu Mar 18, 2010 12:48 am

I could see the different straight away but like AP says.. I'd use it everytime you wash it. I'm going to try it on my SVX (which somone replaced with JDM ones after a smash

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Post by **Alex** » Thu Mar 18, 2010 12:40 pm

SuBaRiNo wrote: Again the board has saved me some coin.

beer on you Dave?

alex

sven '2' · Post by **sven '2'** » Thu Mar 18, 2010 7:13 pm

Keffa wrote:yeah i remember in highschool making some perspex keyring thingos (coupe of layers of coloured plastic glued together) then cut on weird angles and stuff.

Who says there is no national education standard!!!! Made the same key ring in SA about 25 years ago!

Will try the superchump product on my 01 Foz with Lexus-faded headlights

Sven

tony · Post by **tony** » Sun Mar 28, 2010 12:23 am

The frosty appearance is millions of tiny holes which develope in the crappy cheap plastic lens. A lot of those cleaners sold on ebay etc are simply almond oil you can buy for a few bucks from your local chemist. It fills the minute holes but after a while wears off and has to be done again.
I would never go near them with steel wool, and would be very wary of using it on glass as well.
however if it works for you..same as wet and dry..

YouTube · Post by **El_Freddo** » Sun Mar 28, 2010 12:34 am

RSR 555 wrote:Dave is going to tell his missus that he just brought new headlights and with the extra money he saved he'll be able to buy more beer

Has Dave taken up drinking

That's news to me!!!

Glad something like this has worked. I've found that my head lights have a plastic cover over them. I've been meaning to remove this cover after getting back from our perth road trip in 2007 but havn't done it yet. Apparently this cover is done by tinting places to protect the lenses from stone chips etc. It must work as one of my spotties is just about cactus from stone chips yet both of my standard lights are still fine. Hopefully it stays that way!

Cheers

Bennie

RSR 555 · Post by **RSR 555** » Sun Mar 28, 2010 8:38 am

El_Freddo wrote:Has Dave taken up drinking That's news to me!!!

Either that or he is putting funny yellow coloured stuff in Corona bottles and making Jay and me drink it

BTW Dave.. did you want to try any sensors off the B4?