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Planned to try and do some stuff to my headlamp lenses, but I cant pull em off...
Former owner of a 1995 Ford Contour GL w/ 2.0L ATX
Proud owner of a 2005 Ford Taurus SE 3.0L V6 Vulcan 
--Looking for Commodore stuff (Drives, Units, Amiga, games, etc)If anyone has any of this laying around and wants it gone, lemme know --
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Okay... so I was literally going to post pictures a couple of weeks ago as soon as I got my car done... the day after St. Patricks day actually... I had the camera in my car to take to work so that I could dump and re-size pictures for the site because they really did turn out well.
I found a much better way of making them look new though, and I am suprized that no one said anything about this... just have some punk ass 16 year old kid pull out right in front of you turning out of a shopping center, then T-Bone him. Okay, not so funny... but literally 3 days after I did my headlights, I got into an accident and it waisted the whole front of the car. Everyone in the accident was just fine. But, $2,500 later and I have bran new headlights along with a whole new front clip and fender.
That is the best way to get new headlights. How pissed was I that I did those though... I spent HOURS working on them... oh well... it is a car and $hit happens. Just thought I would share.
Oh, and no I don't have the car back yet, the steelership was having issues with my adjuster with getting good parts... he wanted "quality recycled parts" and every set of lights, grill, and header pannel they got were garbage. The lights that he got in had water sitting in one of them and the other one had flat out overspray on it! Ha! Oh well... at least I was able to [censored] enough to have him buy me bran new OE headlights from a Ford dealership.
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OK, before you start pulling headlight assemblies and soaking your sandpaper, check this out. I just went down to Checker and picked up a bottle of Meguiar's Plastx and it cleared my lenses up darn quick. I didn't even break a sweat, and it took me about 15 minutes. Seriously check into this product. I do have some pics, but I have no hosting, so if you want to see the before and after email me and I'll sent you the pics.
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DSM= Daily Scheduled Maintenence
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OK, here are the pictures: Before & after
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Originally posted by jason732:
OK, before you start pulling headlight assemblies and soaking your sandpaper, check this out. I just went down to Checker and picked up a bottle of Meguiar's Plastx and it cleared my lenses up darn quick. I didn't even break a sweat, and it took me about 15 minutes. Seriously check into this product.
It has been brought up before. But you are looking at this all worng and I think a lot of people are. Just because your headlights are hazed, doesn't mean that you have to wet sand them. Wetsanding of the headlights only came about because of an issue with the Post98's lenses developing cracks on the UV coating that covers the plastic lens. Meguiars Plastx is a great product to use, that might keep this from happening and I have stated, that I have used it before, but it only will not remove the cracks that we are talking about here.
I, personally, have never seen a set of Pre98 headlights that have had the same cracks that I am talking about. It is also stated, in the How-to, that the procedure was for Post98 bu tmay work for Pre98 as well.
Either way, man I am just glad that the how-to got you to thinking and you took steps into your own hands to achieve an end result that makes you happy. And that is what the how-to's are all about.
Congrats!!!  
Phillip Jackson
`98 Mystique LS
262K+ and counting...
ATX rebuilt @ 151K
"This storm has broken me, my only friend!" RIP Dime
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I was one of them that thought I had to wetsand my headlights. Good thing I read this post.
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Originally posted by SVT ST PETE:
2. Use a plastic cleaner and plastic polish
If your headlights are not too hazed over, this should be your first step prior to resorting to sanding (Option 3).
This way you are starting with the least abrasive method of removing the haze before using anything more abrasive such as sandpaper.
Several CEGers have successfully used plastic cleaners and polishes to remedy the hazy headlights.
Some products used:
Meguiarā??s Mirror Glaze Clear Plasitic Cleaner #17
Meguiarā??s Mirror Glaze Clear Plastic Polish #10
Meguiarā??s Clear Plastic Collection is only a few dollars more than purchasing #17 and #10 individually.
That's why I recommended using a plastic cleaner/polish prior to wetsanding. This may get rid of the haze, thus eliminating the need to wetsand.
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Here's what I used:
I didn't see it listed anywhere in the link of the Meguiar's Clear Plastic collection. All I know is that this stuff kicks butt.
<kidding> and it's all your fault that I found it and used it and liked the results so much that I had to share it with the world!!!
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