The ultimate headlight restoration video in this video, I'll show you how to restore your headlights to like-new condition using a
three step process with sandpaper and
polish
Be sure to watch the end of the video because there are some tips you're not going to want to miss I will keep your
headlights
Looking like new for the lifetime of your vehicle
To get the oxidation off these headlights we're going to be using three different grits of sandpaper to sand down
Any oxidation we're gonna start with a 500 grit
I'm gonna be using a DA just to speed up the process that just velcro's on
This power sander we're gonna go from 500
To 800 grit and then to a final polish with a 3,000 grit sandpaper
Any sandpaper will work it doesn't have to be these round discs where the velcro
Maybe same pay for the hardware so he picked up you can do this by hand it works. Just as well
I've done it both ways
I've done this process several several times. Well. We're done. I'm gonna use a lens and hard plastic cleaner
To buff out the headlight
And then I'm going to use a
lens and polished protector I
Will leave links in the video description below to all the products that I've used to do that
headlight restoration on this vehicle
Everything you'll need to get the haze or fogginess out of your headlights will be in the video description
These are headlights, we're gonna be doing today. I'm gonna start by taping out the area just to protect any paint from the sandpaper
these headlights
Really aren't that oxidized that badly? I've done much worse
These just happen to be the ones I use for doing this video, and they're still pretty major difference
This is by far the ultimate method of
restoring your headlights
It's permanent especially if you keep
Using a projector in between services. I'm just gonna like plastic over the top of these headlights
and then I'm going to take a razor blade and
I'm gonna cut on top of the tape that way you don't cut into the paint
And once we get around the headlight cutout
I'm just going to take more masking tape and take the plastic down
I'm just gonna speed the video up a little bit here
Alright, so we're gonna start with a 500 grit
I just said you can do this by hand or with a power sander. I have an air sander err da here that I'm using
And take some water we're gonna want to do this all wet sanding
It just helps keep the sandpaper clear or last long
Makes the sandpaper last a lot longer that way and it cuts into a plastic a little better
So we're just gonna go over this thoroughly with a 500 grit sandpaper
Until you're sure you have all the area covered evenly
As I say and you can see all the oxidation lifting off of the headlights
Alright then we're gonna move on to the 800 quits and paper and do the same process
And then from 800 grit we're gonna go on to the
3000 grit and you're probably gonna want to spend the most time on the
3000 grit cuz this ensures you get all the scratches from the 500 and
the 800 grit sandpaper
out of the headlights
It's gonna ensure a nice smooth finish
Only go to kind of policies headlights out
Get all the oxidation off basically all this sanding is doing is just removing that top layer of observation
All that haze headlight hazing you know the fogging in the headlights
Is gonna get rid of all that out of that top plastic layer?
Now before we start polishing we're just gonna like this. I like dry with a rag or some paper towel
It's gonna hold water off of it, so you're not
You know buffing the polishing wood with the water
Right now that we got the headlight all dry we're gonna. I'm gonna apply the lens and polish protector
I didn't use a buffer in this video because I used a three thousand get long enough to where it actually made less work pretty
Good, we're gonna be using electric drill you can still do this by hand with really any both in compound
I have some that's meant for headlights
Really anything works
Even a car wax or a car buffing agent would work to restore these headlights. Yeah, then I'm just going to buff these polishing and
Protect her into the headlights and as you can see
This is where they really come to life and even with these headlights not being that bad
you can still see there's a huge difference and
In this headlight restoration method as far superior than any other headlight restoration method out there. I've tried all of them
it's a toothpaste and
all that stuff with just a bunch of
Gimmicks um in order to get these headlights back to original you're gonna have to sand off all that oxidation
As
You can see we ended up with some pretty amazing result for results here
Something you're definitely not gonna do using toothpaste or some of the other
so-called headlight restoration
methods out there
and
This is a pretty permanent fix if you keep
The headlight protector on there if you buy a headlight protector on there
it's gonna protect it from UV rays as
Opposed to putting a clear coat on your headlight something you definitely don't want to do that to lehre coat is gonna impede the actual
functionality of the headlights
I've seen other YouTube videos where they sand them down and I'm spraying with clear coat
highly not recommended
And then if you were to have to you know if you wanted to repair your headlights in the future you wouldn't be able to
with that clear coat on there, so
This is a right way
to fix oxidized
Plastic headlights. This is ultimate
headlight restoration method and anybody can do it with
You know a three-step process of sandpaper and and polish, and that's it and this is the results you get
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I'll also leave a link to the all the products I used in this video in the description
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