Scratches on Headlights

[Brad G]

Hey guy at my college today even though i told him to mask my headlight has clipped my drivers side headlight with a Dual Action sander and left swirl marks on the plastic. Whats the best way to remove this. I know u can buy products that use different abrasive sandpapers and then polish at the end. This the best option for me as i can feel the swirls with my nail!.

GONNA KILL HIM!!!:devil:

 

[Andy Monty]

best option i can think of is to wet sand the headlamp unit in stages using P2000 then P3000 to remove the sanding marks then a finer cutting polish

 

[petrolhead69]

Borrow the DA and sand them out. Depends how deep the marks are depends what grade of paper to start with. For stonechips on my BMW lights I had to go to 800 and do several passes until the chips were out then up through 1200 2000 4000 then on to cutting and polishing stages. A rotary polisher is far quicker than a da for the polishing but the sanding needs to be done on a da or by hand as a rotary will wreck the lens with sandpaper. I did a wee write up if its any use to you w w w dot detailingworld dot co dot uk/forum/showthread.php?t=178436&highlight=headlight
sorry noobs cant post urls, remove the spaces and fix the dots

 

[petrolhead69]

www.detailingworld.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=178436&highlight=headlight
Able to post links now I have a few more posts.