- Hey what's up guys,
Joey here at Chemical Guys Detail Garage.
Today in the shop we have this Honda Odyssey.
We're going to show you guys how to restore
these oxidized headlights
and a one simple step solution.
Roll the intro.
(electronic music)
- All right guys, so the first thing
that we're going to do today is,
we're going to be masking off our headlight,
we're going to be masking off the painted areas around
the headlight because we don't want to use
a headlight product on the paint.
So we're also going to be doing is
we're going to be doubling up on the tape just because
it's on the thinner side
and we don't want to get the product onto the paint,
and we will be back once it's done.
(finger snaps)
So now that we have the headlight masked off
we're going to follow it up with our clay block
and clay lubricant just to make sure that we get rid
of any dirt that may still be on here
that we can't necessarily see but you can hear.
(rubbing noise)
I'm going to go ahead and do a test section
so that we can see,
the difference and the sound and what a clean,
decontaminated sound sounds like versus
the original raspy sound sounds like.
(bottle spraying)
- This is the side that we just did right now
with the clay block and as you guys can hear,
it's nice and smooth,
you don't really hear any raspiness to it versus
on this side that we didn't do,
which can sound a little bit more raspy
which means that there's still embedded dirt that's
on that actual headlight.
So now that the headlight is clean,
we're gonna proceed to the one and only polishing step
that we're going to have to use in order
to remove this oxidation on the headlight.
Like I mentioned earlier,
we will be using our headlight restorer product on this.
We're going to go ahead and apply about two drops
just because it's not that big of a headlight,
and we're also going to follow it up with one spray
of pad conditioner just to make sure
that we lubricate the pad
and we get better results.
The polisher is ready,
the pad is ready,
now we're gonna go ahead and show you guys the procedure
and actually how to use a polisher on this headlight.
The first thing that you want to do is,
you wanna go ahead and spread the product from
the machine onto the headlight without it being on because
if we were to just go ahead and simply just blot it
on there and turn it on,
it would just fling all over the place.
So like I said,
we're going to go in and spread out the product
as much as we can so that we don't run into that problem.
So now that we have the product spread onto the headlight,
we wanna show you guys the procedure
and how to actually use a rotary polisher
to remove this layer of oxidation.
One, we're not going to apply any pressure on this when we
are doing it because the machine is cutting
and all we're doing is guiding the machine in the way
that we want it to go.
Two, we're going to go ahead and following a pace
of one inch per second which is a general rule of thumb
when polishing any kind of painted finishes
or plastic finishes.
And three, we're going to go ahead
and work in a cross-hatch motion to make sure
that it all comes out uniform
and it all comes out evenly.
So without further ado,
let's get to polishing.
(upbeat music)
(motor humming)
All right guys,
so now that we're done working the product
and it fully becomes clear,
we're going to go ahead
and wipe it off with our microfiber towel
and look at that.
It's like brand-new again.
Probably even better than new.
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(techno music)