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How to wet sand your headlights - A guide
Conrad The Jellyfish:
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winrya:
Cheers for the guide. I had a go at mine 2 weeks ago with 2000 grit but without enough of it and I ended up with an outer ring where the old plastic met the new plastic. This cannot be rushed. I then ordered a sheet of 1500, 2000, 2500 and 3000 and had another go at fixing the light in the week.
It probably took almost 2 hours per light but the result blew me away, especially after i thought i'd wrecked the light. Initially i was just going to do the one, after i'd seen the difference you could actually see they were a different colour so had no choice but to continue and do the other today :laugh: Mine were pretty pitted and covered in scratches for some reason but everything was removed with this process.
I did try polishing the lights by hand with plast x as my neighbour had my machine polisher. After 3 hits i could see I was never going to get the sanding marks out. I then got my machine polisher and menzerna intensive polish and they were perfect in 2 hits. To anyone worried about attempting this, you just need patience! Well worth it in the end, and don't do it unless you have access to a machine polisher!!
Some iPhone pics so not perfect but you get the idea
AlanEdition30:
They looked brilliant Winrya.
I want to do my xenons but im too scared :laugh:
Is there anyone in East Anglia fancy doing mine for some beers tokens?
Hell i will even travel 100 - 150 mile as its not something i fancy doing, for fear of messing them up :ashamed:
Plus i dont currently have access to a machine polisher.
winrya:
--- Quote from: AlanEdition30 on August 06, 2011, 06:20:49 pm ---They looked brilliant Winrya.
I want to do my xenons but im too scared :laugh:
Is there anyone in East Anglia fancy doing mine for some beers tokens?
Hell i will even travel 100 - 150 mile as its not something i fancy doing, for fear of messing them up :ashamed:
Plus i dont currently have access to a machine polisher.
--- End quote ---
Cheers, it certainly wasn't an enjoyable process but the results are very satisfying :smiley: I do maintain as long as you have the correct grade papers, plenty of patience and a machine polisher, you can't really go wrong. My solution if it did go wrong was to replace them with xenons :laugh:
bodger00:
Great work Winrya :happy2:
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