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Help me Get Over my Fear on Headlights
I've never polished headlights but I've seen the results of what can happen.....
I had one of my retrofitters do some work on my headlights. I don't know if it was oversanding, overpolishing, whatever.....but it was clear one minute and then after a little ~tlc~, there were micro-cracks on them...
Anyhow, I've got a ~junker~ set of headlights and plan to remove the lenses and swap them. However, looks like the previous owner had some condensation issues that were never addressed as the I can see a condensation line on both of the headlights.
I'm planning on baby steps....trying to do a cut polish 1st instead of sanding them with the lhr75
Love to hear your process...
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Re: Help me Get Over my Fear on Headlights
BTW, for inside of headlights.....most likely going to have to hand polish
It's been years since I've hand polished. Any polishes work best when hand polishing
I've got 105, 205 and Perfect Finish as my general grab polishes.
SIP and 85RD, and some others in the back of the shelf..
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Re: Help me Get Over my Fear on Headlights
I dont have any suggestions for the insides, not sure how you are going to get in there through the bulb hole and polish anything.
What I do is use the DP headlight polish. No sanding (unless the lens is completely trashed) 90% of the time there shouldnt be a need for sanding. I get a 3" cutting pad and it takes about 4 - 6 section passes to get the headlights looking great. Then I use the DP sealant for headlights.
"Dirt likes detergent so much better than the surface that it's attached to, it'll leave that surface to go hang out with the soap"... aim4squirrels
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Re: Help me Get Over my Fear on Headlights
I'll be removing the headlight lense from the assembly
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Re: Help me Get Over my Fear on Headlights
Originally Posted by chefwong
It's been years since I've hand polished. Any polishes work best when hand polishing
What? I disagree. Polishes work best by machine.
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Re: Help me Get Over my Fear on Headlights
It was meant as *what polishes works best via hand*.
I will be hand polising the inside of the lense cover.
Exterior will be via Rupes Mini / MF pads
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