welcome back to stauffer garage today I'm going to show you how to clear your
headlights really quickly and easily using a few common tools over time UV
rays and debris is going to cause your headlights to get scratched and dirty
and using this process you can do it quite easily the first tool that I have
is just a Chicago electric da polisher son orbital polisher from Harbor Freight
cost me 60 bucks and using their products actually aren't too bad in
terms of polishers and their pads are rather cost effective which if you're
doing certain things like polishing your glass or your headlights in this case so
grabbing the blue one due to it being a little bit more firmer I attached to my
polisher and I've been using the optimum polishing and compound products lately
and I'll be using the compound to do to its abrasiveness to ensure you don't
scratch your paint go ahead and grab just some regular painters tape this is
the wide type and go around your headlight and cover all the paint on the
edges to ensure that you not scratch it during the buffing process it also just
keeps everything a little bit cleaner grab your glass cleaner and clean your
headlight so that way you're not polishing any dirt into the surface and
causing even more scratches than before I like to use a piece of tape to split a
headlight our panel in half in that way you can kind of get it before and after
of your progress as you clean the car bred several dime size amounts of your
product across your pad and then begin dabbing it onto the surface of the
headlight to ensure that you don't splatter once you turn your polisher on
I usually start on a low-speed one or two to begin to work the product across
the surface and then I jump up to a middle or high speed
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sanding method approach I did not necessarily need it for my headlights
but in a later tutorial coming out soon I will be showing you how to sand your
headlights polish them and then also seal them as well to do a more thorough
and completely restore your headlights but for now I just went ahead and worked
the compound for about three to four minutes on my headlights just to clean
them up enough to bring them back to a very clear appearance very quickly
with just about ten minutes of my time [Music]
as you're going around the edges you'll notice that the polish will become hazy
or dried out and that's kind of when you want to stop buff the headlight clean
off the surface see your progress and then add some more polishing compound to
your pad and begin the process over again
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after my second pass was complete and using a microfiber towel to clean off
the old polish you can definitely tell a difference in how clear the headlights
are with just two simple passes with a polishing compound with the tape removed
you can definitely tell the difference between the left and the right side and
how much of that haze and the scratches that you've removed so far in the
process at this point I'll go ahead and continue to do the rest of the headlight
and clean it up again and I'll also probably make one or two more passes on
the left side just to kind of blend it through
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[Music] I know some of you might be having
heartburn over the Harbor Freight orbital polisher
but I've owned a porter cable in the past and this polisher is actually
pretty stout and I was pretty impressed with the price point that it comes in at
if you're not doing detailing every single day or own your own business
something like this will work get the job done and not break the bank but if
you are looking for a more advanced polisher there's tons more on the market
so just do your research and find something that'll work for you if you're
looking at maybe doing this as a business and doing it more often than I
am [Music]
as I work to polish in the second coat of the headlight I wanted to tell you
guys about a giveaway that I am doing on this channel I will be giving away a $50
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all right now you're at the last step which is to grab your quick detailer
clean off the headlight of any of the leftover residue from the polishing
process and remove the painters tape from your paint
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so thank you guys for watching today's video it is a simple process to do I
will be doing a more thorough one where I sand down the headlights shortly in
the next couple weeks that'll be more in-depth for those that have the most
extreme dirty and scratched in yellow headlights imaginable so be on the
lookout for that and like I mentioned today's video is a giveaway so if you
aren't a subscriber subscribe and in the comments below let me know what is the
next detail in video you guys would like to see
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