How To Clean Mucky Headlight Lenses?

[DylanLaw]

Hi all, I have been through the forum and not found a definitive guide for how to polish up the headlight lenses. Mine look like they've been sand-blasted and the light from the front of my car is not great. I want to get HIDs now christmas is out of the way but want to clear the lenses up first. Can anyone offer a complete guide on how to do it (with minimum expense as I'm a bit skint now) and maybe offer step by step instructions and/or images?

Many thanks in advance guys

[Rob]

use brasso and a soft cloth.. it will take some time but it works

[DylanLaw]

use brasso and a soft cloth.. it will take some time but it works

Great thanks, I bought some brasso after reading bits on the forum but was unsure what to do with it. I thought I needed to get a polisher or something to do it. Do I need to remove the headlight or just polish with it in place?

[fil4362]

I used G3 cutting compund and a buffer. Only because i had both. T cut and a rag will do same job just take you longer. Took about 2 minutes to do both my way lol

[DylanLaw]

Great thanks. I'm going to try all the methods I've found and been told here, just to get them looking as good as I can. Cheers guys

[Asi]

used meguires plastic polish brasso works well too

[IZZZY]

is it as straight forward as just brasso on cloth and just keep rubbing till it clears up???

how long does it roughly take?

thanks

[Abbas]

Double post.

[Abbas]

Wet sanding switching to a higher grade each time and then polishing should bring them up nicely.

Something like this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obv_ECYbVhU

You will need a polisher or an attachment for your drill.

Worked for me...

[link005]

http://meguiarsdirect.com/detail/MEG+M1008

[todd69]

I used G3 cutting compund and a buffer. Only because i had both.

Done this a few times now, can get great results :)

This

to this

I was using 1500 then 2000 grit on the lights first, the rest of the yellow was inside the Supra headlight.