My headlights are looking very shoddy got a lot of surface scratches and its really ruining the look of the car and recommendations of how to get rid ? Cleaning kits or whether the plastic needs replacing ? Cheers

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Atom used a 3m kit

And it helped clean his up itll help yours if you take the time


Ziggy

I did a full restoration of my own headlights and I used UPOL333 its about 8 quid on ebay and very effective. Once you have sorted them out then use T-cut afterwards and then a good glass polish like the autoglym one I used and they will look absolutely lovely and clear and you will finally be able to see at night again... I was delighted with mine
good luck
CFB

I've tried Turtle wax's restoration kit on my worn headlights and the results were pretty good.

Just ensure you follow the instructions strictly and they should turn out good. I also found applying some autoglym sealer or G3 wax compound helped protect and preserve the nice new finish

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The 3m kit is excellent, I have since used it for removing scratches and fingerprint oxidation as well, so you get your money's worth.

Does anyone know weather you can just buy the outer plastic instead of the whole headlight ? I've been thinking and I reckon the scratches on the headlight are too deep to be taken out by a kit ... Looks like a previous owner has had a go at it with sandpaper a real mess

tbrads94 said:

Does anyone know weather you can just buy the outer plastic instead of the whole headlight ? I've been thinking and I reckon the scratches on the headlight are too deep to be taken out by a kit ... Looks like a previous owner has had a go at it with sandpaper a real mess

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1 of 2 options

Get lens from a scrap car - but you'll need light cluster out todo it
So you might as well just take 2x lights clusters out

2 - try the kit
if your unsure it'll survive a clean up - and it does - your quids in
if it doesn't - well tough luck - you tried and you have to get a new light cluster set

i'm going to have todo this on my punto
My light units are going cloudy and crusty, no options about it, its gotta be done

Ziggy

You might aswell for a restoration kit, like others said the 3M kit sounds good. Although I can personally recommend the turtle wax kit.

My headlights had previously been scratched with sand paper badly and the kit did a pretty good job of sorting that out.

Won't go wrong following ziggy's advice, well at worst lose a few quid

the lens is a bonded unit.

You'll have to cut it off, and then bond the new one on.

Wear a mask if you're going to try it.

I don't know how it is bonded, but it is super tough.

Yeah think that's the best idea ill have a look get one ordered pretty soon, was just an idea cheers guys !

Hi guys I restores my headlights back the other day they were really bad and didn't want to fork out on new ones so I thought I would try something I used p1200 wet and dry paper with water and rub over the lenses not to hard untill the bad stuff comes off then wash off and dry use t cut and give it a good rub then buffer up and it actually works perfect like new again instead of paying £20 for kit

The Kit is there for 1 reason

A - it adds an element of less elbow grease
B - it works in grades, saving time
C - Its just handy full stop

ziggy

it's also really handy for spot bodywork.

I've already used the buffing wheel to take out scratches in the bonnet and wheel arches.

my headlights are in ok condition apart from a few scratches, can someone provide a link to the 3m kit .

please and thank you

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