How to repair frosted or foggy plastic headlight lens

Foggy or frosted headlamp lens effects the way the light shines through it, this is a common problem with any vehicle with plastic headlamp lens. I will show you a quick fix that I used and it worked for me!

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• paint thinner or solvent
• clear coat spray paint

1. 

   Inspect the lens and see if they can be repaired, worst case you'll have to toss them and buy new parts. My head lights are off of a 96 Dodge Stratus and were fogged pretty bad. I used a blue shop paper towel and folded it over twice and dampened it with some paint thinner. I wiped the lens several times to clean it off and smooth the surface of the plastic.

2. 

   Then I sprayed two coats of clear coat paint on them, letting them dry about 10 minutes between coats.

3. Let them dry for at least an hour and then install them back into the car. Try your lights and see if it's all better!

Tips & Warnings

• Check your lights before disconnecting them from the car wires so bad bulbs can replaced when the housings are removed from the car
• If your headlamp housings can't be repaired then you will need to replace them, not being able to see at night isn't an option.

[havana]

on 2/12/2009 Thanks for the tip. The headlight on the driver side of my 2000 Ford Focus is foggy.

[MariM]

on 2/1/2009 Never though of that.Thanks for sharing.5*