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  • mitchntx

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    Thanks ... I used a pointer to do the gross work and made good progress.
    But I kept chasing the dip around he wheel.
    The "tech" was to quantify the runout.
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    It was time to polish those headlights again! Yellowed, hazy headlights make your car look so cheap and old, yuck.

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    Yep...once upon a time, I wiped them down with lacquer thinner, that was tricky. Then 2,000 grit sandpaper and plastic polish. ( Around this time, people were charging quite a bit for an hours work, and I almost got into the restoration windfall. ) Now, they got stuff, that if you have the ability to wipe your ass, you can use to restore headlights.
     
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    Yep...once upon a time, I wiped them down with lacquer thinner, that was tricky. Then 2,000 grit sandpaper and plastic polish. ( Around this time, people were charging quite a bit for an hours work, and I almost got into the restoration windfall. ) Now, they got stuff, that if you have the ability to wipe your ass, you can use to restore headlights.

    We'd run a buffer over them with some knock off 3M cutting compound. One guy would hold it and the other ran the buffer.

    There's a guy around here who will show up at your house and polish the headlights and then coat them with some kind of clear paint. You don't even need to leave the house. They come to you.
     

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    We'd run a buffer over them with some knock off 3M cutting compound. One guy would hold it and the other ran the buffer.

    There's a guy around here who will show up at your house and polish the headlights and then coat them with some kind of clear paint. You don't even need to leave the house. They come to you.

    You left out the other 2 to change the lightbulb.
     

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    We'd run a buffer over them with some knock off 3M cutting compound. One guy would hold it and the other ran the buffer.

    There's a guy around here who will show up at your house and polish the headlights and then coat them with some kind of clear paint. You don't even need to leave the house. They come to you.

    Hi! Phil Shifty here....with Wipe New headlight wipes.....
     

    SloppyShooter

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    Yeah, I thought about fixing cars on the roadside , turns out I didn't have enough A's in my membership to qualify. But, I can bring you a drink if you want.

    On a more serious note, I have done automotive repairs in my driveway, get a diagnosis and a quote, I'll do it for half.
     

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    Yep...once upon a time, I wiped them down with lacquer thinner, that was tricky. Then 2,000 grit sandpaper and plastic polish. ( Around this time, people were charging quite a bit for an hours work, and I almost got into the restoration windfall. ) Now, they got stuff, that if you have the ability to wipe your ass, you can use to restore headlights.

    Indeed. A bottle of Mother's, a spongy ball thing that you put in your battery powered drill, and half an hour time is all you need.

    Took me longer to change the battery in my wife's car earlier that day. You know, try to get it started with jumper cables, decide it's not working, remove all the bolts holding the battery down, rejoice to find a battery with one more week of warranty left, drive to AutoZone, be informed it's only two years warranty (son of a whore, O'Reilly does three, Walmart four), cuss a little, buy new battery, drive back, install, clean clamps, grease poles, figure out why the positive clamp doesn't get tight, remove felt washer, move positive clamp all the way down the pole and successfully tighten it.

    Figured since I had the tools out and was wearing my shade tree mechanic outfit anyway, might as well do my headlights.

    I did the wet sanding and clear coat last time, but after a year the clear coat looked like ass and I skipped it this time and called it good after the polish and wipe.
     
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    Any recommendations for the best way to restore the headlights? I would rather restore them instead of buying cheapo knockoffs that leak.

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    Any recommendations for the best way to restore the headlights? I would rather restore them instead of buying cheapo knockoffs that leak.

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    Look at it as polishing really dull paint. 1500grit to 2000grit sandpaper. Any well known brand paint compound and buff the outer surface to a polish. Either by hand or by machine.

    Wax the every living phuck out of it. I don't know what they're using as a UV blocking clear spray I've seen. I can get bright and slick. It's the coating I don't know anything about.



    The ghetto way is to spray the lense with WD40. Or rub it down with clean motor oil.
     

    Shady

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    purchased a 2018 Tacoma off road 4x2
    purchased a bedrug for it
    purchased a tri fold bed cover for it.

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    Finally found the problem with my 2000 land cruiser after replacing several parts it was a wire loom was against the serpentine belt and well it cut a wire.
    20 minutes to fish it out solder and replace runs as good as when I bought it with 198K miles ;)
     
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    The lense develops a haze on the outer surface. When you sand, that's what you're sanding off. Getting down to the clearer plastic.

    The haze is sun rotted plastic on top of clean plastic. I'm not sure how treatments without mechanical action to remove it work.

    WD40 hides it....for about three days.
     

    Younggun

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    OFF bug spray will clear them up. Plus it doesn’t cause dust to stick like WD-40 and oil.


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    Younggun

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    Why use random stuff if there's proper products for the purpose?

    It’s cheap and you can always go back with a headlight kit later. Or in a the case of my truck, the brush guard makes it really difficult to properly buff the headlights.




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