Nissan Micra Headlight Restoration

[Deranged_9n3]

During the course of last week I got a call from my local Nissan dealership to go and restore a set of lights for them on a Nissan Micra that came in for a service. When I got to the car I immediately got excited as I knew that this was one of the worst looking sets I ever got to work on opcorn:

Before






The passenger side light wasn't THAT bad





I sanded down the light, ranging from 600 up to 3000 gritt sanding paper, polished it twice with my machine ( compounding followed by polish ) and then lastly I sealed it up with my own mixture of UV coating. It's hard to believe telling from pictures, but after a year of doing this, I am still getting better and better with each set that I restore ops:

After
















Comparison


Fortunately I was packing up my stuff as the client of the vehicle arrived to fetch it. The client couldn't believe that it was the very same set of lights and couldn't stop thanking me for the work I have done

[SameGuy]

Awesome! They look new.

[lawrenceSA]

[SameGuy]

Where are you both located? Jburg frightens me, but I've thought about a quickie holiday to Capetown and the wine country...

[JMP]

What kit did you use?

[lawrenceSA]

Where are you both located? Jburg frightens me, but I've thought about a quickie holiday to Capetown and the wine country...

I am based in Durban, which is on the East Coast.

Etienne is up in Joburg.

[SameGuy]

Beach City! Hmmm... Very interesting!

[Moldavite]

very nice!

[lawrenceSA]

Beach City! Hmmm... Very interesting!

Well if ever you are in my part of the world, you are more than welcome to come say hi. Would be awesome to have a fellow Geeker over

[jamesboyy]

Excellent work on those headlights