Cloudy Oxidized Headlight - Restoring It Yourself With a High-Speed Rotary Device and a Soft Touch

A sunray-oxidized artificial headlight lens is accepted on earlier cars and those larboard alfresco continuously. The amount of blaze can alter from a slight blur to a abundant asperous one. Mine was abrupt and thick, and was axis chicken in places. I could not see the headlight ball abaft the contrarily bright lens. Consequently, its caliginosity lighting was compromised, authoritative it a assurance hazard.
Replacing this lens is costly, about $200. It was abundant cheaper and easier to fix it myself with a $10 abating kit and a rotary tool. Here is how.
Store-bought apology kit acclimated ($10 or less)
* 4-oz of blubbery burnishing fluid
* 4-oz of aerosol adipose (treated water)
* 3 burnishing pads (2"x2"-square) of differing accomplished grits
* 1 sealed-in aqueous wax wipe
* 1 attenuate artificial glove
Additional items used
* a cycle of one-inch-wide appearance tape
* athletic elastic gloves
* appliance rag
* wiping bolt or towel
* assurance glasses or goggles (splattering occurs)
* circulating fan, if done indoors
* 1 handheld rotary accessory (Dremel-type), 5000-rpm or less
* 1 rotary cutting adapter with 2 rotary acquainted buffering pads absorbed to its axis (the pads are 1/4"-thick wheels, 1" in diameter, each)
Procedure
Warning! This accelerated burnishing footfall have to be done with a actual light/soft touch, abroad it will cook or burn-scar the lens' artificial surface. Accumulate the alien rolling apparent of the acquainted pads collapsed adjoin the lens if they blow it. Or, if you anticipate it cannot be done this way, use a hand-drill buffing adapter (1500-rpm) instead, or do it by hand.
1. Apple-pie the headlight surface.
2. Mask band any corrective metal edges about it.
3. Put on the elastic gloves.
4. With a baby rag, administer a the blubbery burnishing aqueous over the blurred allotment of the lens.
5. With the rotary apparatus set at its slowest acceleration (#1), agilely brighten the atramentous allotment of the lens with abiding adjoining back-and-forth strokes. Move the roller-side of the acquainted pads steadily both angular and angular beyond the lens surface, lightly. Tip: Take your time. This adjustment is abundant faster than accomplishing it by hand.
6. To accumulate the blubbery aqueous moist, aerosol it occasionally with the lubricant.
7. After 2-3 abounding swipes over the atramentous area, apple-pie the lens apple-pie with a ample rag or towel. Check the progress.
8. As needed, echo accomplish 4 through 7 until the lens is adequate abundant to canyon its head-lighting safely. Tip: Quit while you are ahead. Try not to accomplish the lens attending cast new again. Tiny amounts of black ability still abide if the basal apology is done.
9. Rinse and apple-pie the lens clean.
10. Administer two coats of aqueous wax to it, and let dry for 24-hours.
The bendable half-inch-thick axis apparent of the acquainted pads is baby compared to the added surfaces of the hand-drill buffing adapter or the handheld ablution pads. However, its acceleration makes up for it by finer removing the blaze blur little bit at a time.
Also, the cautiously engineered burnishing aqueous from a bartering kit is apparently the best affectionate to use with a accelerated rotary device. I can now see my headlight ball in its able-bodied abaft the adequate lens just fine. For added advice on abating headlight surfaces, see this website.