Restoring / Refurbing 5G Headlights
Posted: Tue May 08, 2012 5:20 pm
Originally posted on PUK & LB on 22/06/2010:
After 10 years my car's headlights were looking quite tatty and let the rest of the car down. I sorted them by using advice from jules.pollock (http://preludeuk.forumup.com/viewtopic.php?t=5043) and Pushki77 (http://preludeuk.forumup.com/viewtopic. ... c&start=30). Many thanks to you both.
The products I used included:
BEFORE - PASSENGER SIDE:
AFTER - DRIVER SIDE:
AFTER - PASSENGER SIDE:
It took about a couple of hours on each headlight, over 3 evenings! I was a little scared at first with the thought of rubbing sandpaper over the headlights, knowing how much they cost to replace, but I did it and I'm very happy with the result. It wasn't as straight forward as starting from the top and working my way down through the listed products as after I finished or got half way through, I then decided it wasn't good enough so started again, this happened a few times, usually starting again from the P1200 stage then working from there. However, the above list is the recommended order they should be used in.
After 10 years my car's headlights were looking quite tatty and let the rest of the car down. I sorted them by using advice from jules.pollock (http://preludeuk.forumup.com/viewtopic.php?t=5043) and Pushki77 (http://preludeuk.forumup.com/viewtopic. ... c&start=30). Many thanks to you both.
The products I used included:
- - P400 sandpaper,
- P1200 sandpaper,
- Autoglym Metal Polish then Autosol Metal Polish after that ran out,
- 3M Finesse-it Material Polish (my Dad got some from work along with the sandpaper),
- Meguiar's Plast-RX (seems like it's had a name change as up until now it's been called Plast-X).
BEFORE - PASSENGER SIDE:
AFTER - DRIVER SIDE:
AFTER - PASSENGER SIDE:
It took about a couple of hours on each headlight, over 3 evenings! I was a little scared at first with the thought of rubbing sandpaper over the headlights, knowing how much they cost to replace, but I did it and I'm very happy with the result. It wasn't as straight forward as starting from the top and working my way down through the listed products as after I finished or got half way through, I then decided it wasn't good enough so started again, this happened a few times, usually starting again from the P1200 stage then working from there. However, the above list is the recommended order they should be used in.