Hi Guys,
Just sharing a cheap headlight result.
1st a rub with #800, then#1200, thaen #2000 then a handful of COLGATE from the bathroom!!!! on a polipad.
All done by hand 15 minutes each lamp. Hope this helps anyone with milky lenses. (photo attached)
Cheers, steve.

 

Looks good. You'd need to coat the plastic lenses though, won't stay that way long if you don't.

 

Hi JYA, what do you coat with?

 

clearcoat?

 

My dad was a tail gunner in a Dauntless dive bomber in the Pacific during the war -- always swore by toothpaste for polishing canopies!

 

Hey there, Thanks for the note and he made sure he could see where his shells were going. LOL.
Cheers,
Steve

 

A good quality can of 2k clear coat. Don't skimp on it, get a decent one and follow the instructions.

 

Following on from dan goes fast above, one of the better of the millions of videos (and most not worth watching) from the school of YouTube on how to do it correctly, below.

 

Good vid! I'd planned to do this to my XES soon, with a bit of inspiration tomorrow might be the day

 

Thanks Dan, taken on board.
Cheers
Steve

 

If your lights look that bright, why don't your teeth look that good? BWAHAHAHAHA

 

Cause he didn't clear coat them

 

No one has mentioned the simplest way to keep the lenses from UV damage: WAX them! Several coats of good (carnauba) wax on the lenses keeps them crystal clear. The wax does not, of course, repair cloudy lenses. - but once restored, the wax keeps them that way.