headlight cleaning

[mendozer]

i recently bought Megular's Plastix to clean the slight yellowish tin on one of my headlights. it kinda worked, guess i gotta do it more. what do you ppl use to clean it?

[BLUEMEANIE]

plain ol' regular tooth paste and elbow grease. ...gotta be the paste kind, not the gel. reason it works is cause tooth paste is a mild abrasive polish.

[V6LE_CAMRY]

I use regular car wax like the turtle wax and maguers(or what ever its name is)

and it works fine for a week.

[V6LE_CAMRY]

i recently bought Megular's Plastix to clean the slight yellowish tin on one of my headlights. it kinda worked, guess i gotta do it more. what do you ppl use to clean it?

Any pics?

[mendozer]

heres some pics of what im talking about:


see in the last one how its more yellowish than the corner's clear part? also its a little hard to tell cuz the suns casting a shadow over the dirtier headlight. its not yellow to the point of no light going through, but i want it crystal clear.

[V6LE_CAMRY]

Cool I thing that im going to buy that too Where did you buy it at?

"SEXY"? I wonder why people call the camry "SEXY"? anyone knows why?
Ive heard other people say that they are sexy

[V6LE_CAMRY]

Oh I forgot to mention that my head light are ugly yellow and its alittle yellow from the inside too. do you think that it will still clear it abit?

[SolaraTRD]

I thought the "yellow" tint was in the INSIDE of the head light? Not so much on the outside?

[chronoti]

alot of the tint is on the out side. i hear baking soda liquid mix in it would help take some of the inside yellow out. i use some brass polish wadding stuff. works to clean off the yellow real good. then i finsh with some turtle wax to try and keep it clean for a month or so.

[BLUEMEANIE]

tooth paste and elbow grease guys ... trust me its a trick for polishing clear plastics the predates most of us.

[mendozer]

well to the LE guy, i got it from checker auto parts. before that, my friend let me use his polishing compound. that works to, just takes more work. this stuff works faster.

[f1x0r4t3d]

I use 3M plastic cleaner....Then finish up with 3M Plastic polish. It worked really well on my headlights...They too had the yellowish tint (on the outside) but it came right off with the 3M polish/cleaner. ps: I got it from oreilly auto parts.

[Jugga]

Bets way to clean headlights.....

1.Clean headlights with normally (soap and water)

2.Wet sand with 1500 grit sandpaper do until lens is cloudy

3.Apply some rubbing compund (lens will still be cloudy)

4.After this rub some metal polish in, and continue compound

5. Now finish up with some polishing creme (your choice)

Sounds rough, but the best thing you can do to your headlights. Came out great on my explorer, eclispe, and camry

[rogerman]

Blue Magic

[terrastrife]

get glass lamps :P~