MK5 Golf GTI

All Things Mk5 => Mk5 General Area => Topic started by: golfgti10 on January 21, 2015, 10:59:59 am

Title: restoring headlights
Post by: golfgti10 on January 21, 2015, 10:59:59 am

im thinking of getting a valeting company to restore my headlights, as the plastic has gone funny, just wondering if this could effect the beam pattern for the m.o.t or is this a stupid question

Title: Re: restoring headlights
Post by: xjay1337 on January 21, 2015, 11:11:51 am

Faded headlight lenses can effect light output and scatter light, I've seen it give advisories on MOT but not fail.

Having nice clear headlights looks better and gives you better light output .  :happy2:

Title: Re: restoring headlights
Post by: lukemk5gti on January 21, 2015, 11:15:07 am

Only if they knock the light whilst doing it. Not likely though!

My next point would be to do it yourself. You can get those kits for headlight restoration and they're very easy to use. Roughly £15

Title: Re: restoring headlights
Post by: golfgti10 on January 21, 2015, 11:19:15 am

so if I had it done then there no problem beam will be better not effected

its also only £25 for the company to do it

Title: Re: restoring headlights
Post by: lukemk5gti on January 21, 2015, 11:38:17 am

Quote from: golfgti10 on January 21, 2015, 11:19:15 am

so if I had it done then there no problem beam will be better not effected

its also only £25 for the company to do it

It'll be fine, they're cleaning the outside plastic cover. If anything it'll give you better visibility.

If you find afterwards that your beam line is out of whack they can be manually fixed in 2 seconds. Don't worry about it!