How to Polish Car Headlights

Series Summary

Automotive cleaning with extreme precision and attention to detail is aptly referred to as "detailing." Though it's possible to detail a car in a driveway, many car owners take their vehicles to professional car washes that specialize in car-washing methods and techniques. Since detailing a car can often be time consuming, as well, many people find it easier to leave the task to someone else. However, many people like to take on the job themselves, in their driveway or garage. Only a few essential supplies are needed, and some basic instructions and demonstrations can make the task of detailing a car a fairly simple affair. In this free video series, the owner of a car detailing business provides tips for keeping a car looking and smelling great. Find out how to polishing chrome, how to polish car headlights and how to start a car wash business. Learn about getting rid of cigarette smoke in a car, removing road tar from car paint and getting rid of car odors. Get advice on doing professional car detailing work in the comfort of your own driveway.

Video Transcript

"Hi my name is Johnny. I'm from Johnny V's Mobile Detailing here in St. Petersburg, Florida and I'm going to show you how to polish your car's headlights. The first thing you are going to want to do is take yourself a rag here and you are going to want to clean off any debris that is already on the car headlights making sure that they are free of dirt or anything like that. The next step you want to do is take your favorite headlight cleaner and make sure it is for plastic because these are plastic headlights, put a little bit here on your rag and what I am going to do is I am going to go in circular motions slowly over one headlight at a time as you can see making sure not to get anything on the paint, being very careful about this, going in circular motions now. Now I will just leave that there for a second. I'm wanting it to haze up a little bit so it can do its work and do what it is supposed to do and the next thing I want to do is take yourself a clean rag, a microfiber rag preferably and slowly wipe off, start with the edges and then work your way to the middle and then in round circular motions making sure to get all the polish off your car, off your headlight I should say. Now that is nice and shiny, now this headlight here should shine as bright as it possibly can so that you can see everything in front of you and that's pretty much all you have to do to polish your headlights. My name is John and I'm from Johnny V's Mobile Detailing and that's how you polish your headlights."