How to Remove Oxidation From Oxidized Plastic Headlights

Headlight Restoration After Using A Headlight Cleaner Or Repair Kit From The Headlight Solution, http://www.headlightsolution.net Quickly And Easily Removes Oxidation, Pits, And Scratches

Yellow, cloudy and dull headlights all have something in common – they provide low visibility at night. Besides making your headlights look old and dingy, headlights with oxidation cut down on the brightness of the lights and actually block some of the light emitting from the headlights. Oxidation buildup occurs on plastic headlights from the sun and weather over time. You don’t have to spend hundreds of dollars on replacing your headlights. Remove oxidation from plastic headlights for under fifty dollars in your own driveway.

Things You'll Need

• Masking tape
• 900-grit sandpaper
• 1,000-grit sandpaper
• 1,200-grit sandpaper
• Water
• Microfiber towel
• Plastic lens polish
• Plastic lens sealer

Instructions

1. Place masking tape around the edges of the headlight on the car to protect the painted surface from being scratched. Put at least two or three layers to ensure sandpaper can’t tear the tape.

2. Sand the headlights with 900-grit sandpaper and water. Keep the sandpaper wet while sanding. Move the sandpaper across, not up and down. Sand until the entire headlight surface is dull and rough.

3. Sand the headlights again using 1,200-grit sandpaper and water. Sand the entire headlight surface until it feels smooth.

4. Go over the headlights once more using 1,500-grit sandpaper and water to make them as smooth as possible. Rinse the headlights and let them dry completely.

5. Apply a small amount of plastic lens polish on a microfiber towel and use it to buff the surface of the headlights. Work the polish in small circular motions until the headlight looks clear and smooth.

6. Wipe lens sealer over the surface of the clean, dry headlight. Wipe across the headlight, not up and down. Let the headlights dry for ten minutes.

Tips & Warnings

• There is many things available to the consumer today to remove oxidation / yellowing of the headlight lens. Such as polish designed for plastics, but keep in mind that most headlights on the road today have far exceeded just oxidation / yellowing. They have compromised their protective coating from the manufacturer.

• Once the headlight becomes scratched, pitted, and has a gritty texture to the lens you must restore the lens.

• There is no magic polish, no magic de-oxidizer, that will restore the lenses. You must simply remove that "bad" layer of plastic--the old UV coating from the manufacturer by a mechanical process, ie--wet-sanding the headlight lens to reveal a "new"/ "virgin" layer of plastic.

• Then most importantly one must seal the lens with a new UV coating to prevent future degradation of the headlight lens.

• All solutions are paint safe...never buy a product to restore or remove oxidation of your headlight lenses that is not paint safe. If it's not paint safe it is most likely not safe for your plastic headlights either.

Resources

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