fuzzy

...as title suggests anyone got any tips on whats good to use to polish out some light scratches on my headlights?

dojj

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plastic of glass?

there is a plastic kit out there but perhaps you'd need to see gavin to sort out the glass versions

LHD220Turbo

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Ive used t-cut on a lense before & came up really well; pretty certain it was plastic tho

gingerturbo

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I've done hundreds now get a lot through work especially (shitty) mercs,
Wet and dry 1200, then compound and polish (only if the lenses are plastic)

fuzzy

thanks...theres a couple of things for me to try ....and one i didnt understand....whos gavin?

dojj

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gingerturbo

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Haha no job too small lol

Thrush

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Nothing Autoglass use will do anything to headlights at all, whether they are scratched or broken.

I tried to do mine (plastic) with toothpaste and then T-Cut. Made no odds at all

botters

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2000 grit sandpaper wet, 3m fast cut plus with a buffer, will look like new in about 10 minutes

fuzzy

i couldnt find this thread anywhere now i know why... someone moved it to the concours section...first time ive ever been in here as im strictly a £5 jetwash once a month sort of guy......
but i got some wet and dry, could only find 1200 grit though ,some cutting compound and some polish and ill try it out tomorrow as i have plastic lenses on my work saab....
and ive still got no idea what gavin from autoglass has got to do with this unless he does jobs on the side repairing minor lense scratches with his magic window repair gel?

dojj

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when you get scratches in your windscreen from your wipers, some places will be able to remove the scratches by polishing the glass

the things you learn from wheel dealers eh

JamboRS

i done my xenons
started by wet sanding using 1500 then 2000 then 2500 then 3000.could see by this point that they were looking very good.so machined them using 3m fast cut then refined with menzerna. gtechniq c4 was used to seal them then 2 coats of coli 476.im pleased with how they turned out

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its important to seal them afterwards as they will yellow as headlights come from factory with a uv coating

Harryh24

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I've don't hundreds in Spain ass in kills the crap Renault plastics and most of the new fords as well, depending on how bad start with 800 gti then work way up to 2000 then buff with machine, or by hand takes an age tho! and same with compound finish with a super fine. and depending on customer seal them after

jghs83

Glad i found this thread, my fiesta mk6 headlights are terrible.

Question though, has anyone laquered their lights after wet/drying?

fuzzy

that came up well. the top pics just like mine just now.

Colin N

Scratches on glass can be polished out but only if they are not to deep, I work in the double glazing industry and you can get small buffing pads that go in an electric drill and use jewellers rouge which they use for polishing diamonds, any good glass supplier should be able to help you with the materials but it can be time consuming, if the scratch is to deep it can distort the glass and leave a slightly concave effect.

Thrush

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Very little can be polished out of windscreen glass, as the grade of glass used in it these days doesn't respond well to it. We used to use jewellers rouge back in the day, but it does little to nothing nowadays.

Glenn_

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Them head lights look mint.I might try some wet and dry on my pumas head lights cause there starting to go a funny colour.

JamboRS

Thats the uv protection breaking down. This is why they need something like gtechniq c4 after polishing to seal them

Glenn_

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Ok thanks.