Originally posted by dluv:
Thanks for the input. To answer the question above I did have the lights out of the car. It required very little effort. I am already seeing that this fix will probably not last long. So anyone considering this please be advised it may only be a temporary solution and not an actual "fix".



I think your use of the 600 grit is what is causing most of your issue's. You made a good step by going from 600 to 1000, but then jumped a mountian by going straight to 2000. Wetsanding requires baby steps.

General rule of thumb when wetsanding anything... Always start with the least aggressive method and move to more aggressive methods only after you find that they will not work.

Also, when you have to move to more aggressive methods, always move slowly to the finer materials. Hince, Baby steps. With paper, never jump more the 500 as far as grit goes.

One last thing to remember... when you get finished sanding and preping whatever surface you are working on, wipe it down with alchoal. If the defect that you was try to remove reappears, you need to start over because you did not remove it. You only cover'd it up.

In your case, I would suggest going over the lens with some 1500 paper followed by the 2000. Of course making sure that you never sand in the same direction with two different grits. In other words, 1500 one way and 2000 the other. Then hit the lens with your plastic cleaner and then the plastic polish. See what they look like then.

I have used this method on a good number of lights and even done them on other cars. A plastic lens is just that, a plastic lens. Since the weather here has been nice for two days followed by rain, I have not been able to wash my car in almost three weeks, but my headlights still look good as new. I have always cleaned and polished my lights when I wash my car, so it has been three weeks since I have done that. And they still look good. Well, minus the bug dug on there...

Good luck and I hope you can get this to work out for ya.

Phillip Jackson `98 Mystique LS 262K+ and counting... ATX rebuilt @ 151K "This storm has broken me, my only friend!" RIP Dime