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Review: SONAX Profiline Headlight Restoration Kit
Review: SONAX Profiline Headlight Restoration Kit
Cloudy oxidized and yellowed headlights are a problem and they are likely going to always be a problem do to the nature of plastic and the environment our cars are exposed to. So you have a 3 options,
- Trade in the old car when the headlights become oxidized - kind of spendy but it fixes the problem for a few years.
- Hire someone to restore your headlights.
- Do-it-yourself.
In my experience, doing it yourself is the most cost-effective option and with a complete kit like the SONAX Profiline Headlight Restoration Kit you get everything you need to do the job right the first time.
This kit includes:
- SONAX P-Ball
- SONAX Wet-Sanding Discs
- SONAX 3.5 in. Wool Lambskin Pad
- SONAX Headlight Polish
- SONAX Profiline Headlight Protection
- SONAX Polishing Cloths
- SONAX Microfiber Cloth
Directions:
1. Wash and dry your headlights.
2. Tape off the areas surrounding your headlights with masking tape to avoid splash and overspray.
3. If your headlights are in particularly rough condition, use the SONAX Wet-Sanding discs (starting with the P1000 and following with the P2000) in combination with the SONAX P-Ball to wet-sand them. Make sure to wipe off any abrasive residue using a cloth before continuing.
4. Lightly moisten the SONAX Lambskin Pad and attach it to either the SONAX P-Ball or your preferred rotary polisher.
5. Apply the SONAX Headlight Polish directly onto the SONAX Lambskin Pad and polish the surface of your headlights until the plastic appears clear. Wipe any remaining residue off using the shallow nap side of the SONAX Microfiber Cloth.
6. Spray SONAX Profiline Headlight Protection onto a SONAX Polishing Cloth and apply a thin layer of product to your headlight.
7. After the SONAX Profiline Headlight Protection has almost evaporated completely, apply a second layer of product using the same method as before (make sure to use a fresh SONAX Polishing Cloth).
8. Once the second layer of SONAX Profiline Headlight Protection has almost evaporated completely, use the soft, longer napped side of the SONAX Microfiber Cloth to buff the surface of your headlight.
9. Allow the SONAX Profiline Headlight Protection approximately an hour to cure completely. Make sure that the headlights are not exposed to any moisture during this time.
Before storing your SONAX Profiline Headlight Protection, turn the can upside-down and briefly spray until the valve is empty. This will prevent the product from curing inside the valve and clogging it.
So I followed the instructions above but gave the sanding portion a little tweak as I tend to be a "Machine Guy" plus here at Autogeek, we don't sell hands.
See the pictures down below...
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Review: SONAX Profiline Headlight Restoration Kit
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This is a super easy kit to use. Of course, the worse your headlights the more you'll need to sand to remove all the dead, oxidized plastic. but once you get the plastic down to a clean, hard base the rest of the steps are as easy as applying a wax to car paint.
Also - working by hand works, but the little mini polisher I used to machine wetsand does a better job faster for headlights in really bad condition. It's up to you, but I prefer to work by machine.
Here's a tip - BEFORE your headlights get as bad as the headlights you see on this car, get this kit and apply the Headlight Protection and then you won't have to do all the hard step.
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Sonax makes really good products and I agree “you get what you pay for”, but for $99 I could buy enough supplies to do several sets of headlights. It is the most expensive headlight repair kit I have seen. Sandpaper and a wool pad is not expensive. I does come in a nice plastic box. I would consider it for $50. I don’t think most detailers charge more than $100 to repair a set of headlights. I really don’t like to be negative about any product.
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rlmccarty2000
Sonax makes really good products and I agree “you get what you pay for”, but for $99 I could buy enough supplies to do several sets of headlights.
Thank you for your feedback, as I normally do, I send the link to all the vendors for any product I review so they will read and see your feedback.
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Re: Review: SONAX Profiline Headlight Restoration Kit
Thank you for the reply and feedback rlmccarty2000. We certainly appreciate your perspective based on what you see and have read. If I may, I'd like to clarify some things about the kit. The kit was assembled specifically for professionals who recondition headlights as a service on a regular basis and are looking for an all-encompassing kit for doing such work. Based on what we have seen through testing, the kit should recondition 20-40 SETS of headlights. The only item that deteriorates before 20 sets was the wet sanding discs. So based on the $99 price and reconditioning that many sets we are looking at $3-5 per service. Which we thought was a fair price. Hope this information helps!! All the best, Jason
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