MK5 Golf GTI

General => Detailing => Topic started by: Chunkyjh on June 15, 2012, 01:18:59 pm

Title: Hazy yellowed headlights before/after
Post by: Chunkyjh on June 15, 2012, 01:18:59 pm

So a colleague at work asks me to look out for a new set of headlights for her 55 plate mk5 2.0 fsi. I ask her why and she tells me they're hazy and yellowed through sun damage. This seems to be an issue with some mk5s. I tell I'll fix it for beer and save her a few hundred quid. So I go and buy a 3m headlight restoration kit and get polishing.

I don't have a da polisher so I went down this route as you can use it with a drill. £24 for the pack which comes with various grades of disc, a foam backing plate, a form polisher and some rubbing compound.

He's before....

(https://www.mk5golfgti.co.uk/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fdaz.co%2Fmedia%2Fad226%2Fchunkyjh%2Ff42d3150.jpg&hash=d1ae8e5dcc8053889e23f6ab1e5918f229725c64)

(https://www.mk5golfgti.co.uk/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fdaz.co%2Fmedia%2Fad226%2Fchunkyjh%2F88377228.jpg&hash=fe25b4b4e82275417dd54f414a1737396817ca4b)

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And after....

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(https://www.mk5golfgti.co.uk/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fdaz.co%2Fmedia%2Fad226%2Fchunkyjh%2F65468b79.jpg&hash=fcd232c0b07a304e70e068f79d8daef46031a2b9)

All in took 1.5 hours

Not perfect but a load better than before

Title: Re: Hazy yellowed headlights before/after
Post by: Gene Hunt on June 15, 2012, 01:20:30 pm

Good job there. :happy2:

Title: Re: Hazy yellowed headlights before/after
Post by: Jaywoo-GTI on June 15, 2012, 02:21:18 pm

How did you find the 3m kit?

Title: Re: Hazy yellowed headlights before/after
Post by: Kalpsn2000 on June 15, 2012, 02:47:42 pm

They have turned out great :happy2:

Title: Re: Hazy yellowed headlights before/after
Post by: Chunkyjh on June 15, 2012, 02:49:05 pm

Yeah I thought it was good. Easy to use, just what I needed. Was only enough kit in it for a single use so works out quite expensive I suppose. cheaper than new lights though

Title: Re: Hazy yellowed headlights before/after
Post by: Chunkyjh on June 15, 2012, 02:49:37 pm

Quote from: Kalpsn2000 on June 15, 2012, 02:47:42 pm

They have turned out great :happy2:

Thanks  :happy2:

Title: Re: Hazy yellowed headlights before/after
Post by: Squeeguk on June 15, 2012, 06:05:51 pm

Nice one, good job. I did the same on my Mom's Focus, but it was just the one headlight. Ended up looking newer than the other one which looked ok before. :laugh:

Title: Re: Hazy yellowed headlights before/after
Post by: Saintsteve on June 15, 2012, 07:50:48 pm

where did you buy this kit?

Great results! :happy2:

Title: Re: Hazy yellowed headlights before/after
Post by: Chunkyjh on June 15, 2012, 11:22:27 pm

Ebay mate, just search for 3m headlight restoration kit  :wink:

Title: Re: Hazy yellowed headlights before/after
Post by: leon56 on June 17, 2012, 07:01:27 pm

I've just done some for a mate last week failed mot on no pattern so wet flatted with 800 then 1200 and finished with 2000 them mopped with compound better than new and past mot