Headlights.
 

Just cleaned up headlight lens as it was turning green. Cleaned with emery paper (400) and soapy water then polished with autoglym cutting polish. Looks a treat when wet but misty when dry. Any idea what I can do now?

400 grit is too harsh, its a starting point not finishing. Either buy a headlight restoration kit (like this) or wet/dry with soapy water starting with 400 and working your way through progressively finer grades, 800-1200-2400 then a cutting polish, soak the wet/dry in the water before using it.

As you've removed a layer of the plastic its a good idea to finish off with a spray of UV resistant lacquer.

Headlights.
 

Okay, will do. Thanks for that.

It's very important that you cover your polished headlight with some kind of lacquer as it will quite quickly go misty again if you don't.--- ( anti-UV. )

( From personal experience. :eek: )

Used the 3m kit again for a set of lights 2 weeks ago, to from this
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To this
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No uv laquer applied yet though..🙄


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They look very good!

I did mine when I first bought the car a few months ago, but one has some deep scratches in so not applied lacquer yet.

I'm on the lookout for a pair of "nice" ones I can get some form of LED DLR conversion on.

start with 800 max, then up to 2500 or 3000 then a cutting compound,


Then as said before , some treatment to stop it hazing again , Laquer is the best .


Not found any polish types stuff thats actually works :duh:.


Esp all the big name stuff , useless :eek:


Had this on all our ZT's but the lil ZR of the same age is still perfect ..:shrug:


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