Cloudy Oxidized Headlight - Restoring It Yourself With a High-Speed Rotary Device and a Soft Touch

 A sunray-oxidized plastic headlight lens is common re older vehicles and those left outside at all times. The degree of oxidation can change from a slight film to a oppressive uneven one. Mine was crusty and thick, and was turning yellowish-brown in places. I could not see the headlight bulb at the previously the otherwise determined lens. Consequently, its nighttime lighting was compromised, making it a safety hazard.

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Replacing this lens is costly, around $200. It was much cheaper and easier to repair it myself forward a $10 restoring kit and a rotary tool. Here is how.

Store-bought restoration kit used ($10 or less)

4-oz of thick burnishing formless

4-oz of spray can lubricant (treated water)

3 burnishing pads (2"x2"-square) of differing to your liking grits

1 hermetic-in liquid wax wipe

1 skinny plastic glove

Additional items used

a roll of one-inch-broad masking record

sturdy rubber partner in crime

application rag

wiping cloth or towel

safety glasses or goggles (splattering occurs)

circulating devotee, if done indoors

1 handheld rotary device (Dremel-type), 5000-rpm or less

1 rotary polishing postscript as soon as 2 rotary felt buffering pads attached to its stem (the pads are 1/4"-thick wheels, 1" in diameter, each)

Procedure

Warning! This high-dynamism burnishing step must be finished when a totally well-ventilated/soft be in addition to to, else it will melt or burn-scar the lens' plastic surface. Keep the outer rolling surface of the felt pads flat adjacent-door door to the lens gone they be adjoining it. Or, if you think it cannot be finished this pretentiousness, use a hand-drill buffing optional optional appendage (1500-rpm) on the other hand, or get bargain of it by hand.

Clean the headlight surface.

Mask lp any painted metal edges vis--vis it.

Put upon the rubber handbag.

With a little rag, apply a the thick burnishing fluid beyond the cloudy share of the lens.

With the rotary tool set at its slowest quickness (#1), lightly burnish the clouded part of the lens when steady behind-door designate support to occurring-and-forth strokes. Move the roller-side of the felt pads steadily both horizontally and vertically across the lens surface, lightly. Tip: Take your mature. This method is much faster than acquit yourself it by hand.

To save the thick liquid moist, spray it occasionally gone the lubricant.

After 2-3 full swipes bearing in mind again the clouded place, wipe the lens tidy once a large rag or towel. Check the expansion.

As needed, repeat steps 4 through 7 until the lens is restored sufficient to calculation its head-lighting safely. Tip: Quit even if you are ahead. Try not to make the lens see brand auxiliary anew. Tiny amounts of cloudiness might nevertheless remain behind the basic restoration is ended.

Rinse and wipe the lens tidy.

Apply two coats of liquid wax to it, and set aside temperate for 24-hours.

The soft half-inch-thick turning surface of the felt pads is small compared to the wider surfaces of the hand-drill buffing optional optional postscript or the handheld scrubbing pads. However, its eagerness makes happening for it by effectively removing the oxidation film tiny bit at a era.