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07-25-2014, 06:51 PM | #1 |
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can you polish headlights to perfection?...
my headlights look very good as they are only a year old... i keep them very clean and use clay to gently remove bugs and tar and stuff when necessary
however, when i bot the car new the dealer had installed some very light siwlrs/spider webs in the headlights.... you can't see them unless you get up close anyway, can these be polished out? i tried once to use a light pad and some wolfgang finishing polish (aka sf4000) but seemed to not help at all and added more light spider webs can headlights be polished to perfection to remove these spider webs? do i have to use a stronger polish? it seems to me when i look at headlight videos and pictures, even after a clean up there always seems to be very light marring still left over thanks |
07-26-2014, 11:07 AM | #2 |
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There is a process of wet sanding with a high number paper or pad then buffing to clear. The downside to this is headlights are usually treated on the upper layers of the plastic with a UV buffer. Once you wet sand and buff 99% of the time you just removed that. So from there its a never ending battle to keep them waxed to keep them from now yellowing.
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thx guys... this is what i was thinking that it would take a full sanding/polishing to get 100% clarity and i guess i am just not prepared to do that on a new vehicle
they still look great but i am very ocd about this kinda stuff thanks |
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