A Little Headlight Restore
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sixty7mustang22
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My dad needs his headlights resotered REALLY badly.
Nice work.:hifive:
Nice work.:hifive:
^&04types
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very nice.
^&04types
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2 HRS?:nono
beemerboy1
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RUSSH said:
What are you doing that is taking that long?
HL are fairly straight forward, wet sanding, compound / polishing
My time is about 1 hour both sides
Great job, and I love 240s.
One thing though...the photography. Look at the color of the sky in the upper right hand corner in your two before and after pictures. Not the same. There's an obvious white balance/color temperature difference in the otherwise constant sky that "helps" give off the appearance of a de-yellowed headlight. All of a sudden the sky is very BLUE...and so is the headlight!
I do see a significant reduction in the cloudiness and oxidation and yellowing, but i see some deceptive photography in your before/after pics.
One thing though...the photography. Look at the color of the sky in the upper right hand corner in your two before and after pictures. Not the same. There's an obvious white balance/color temperature difference in the otherwise constant sky that "helps" give off the appearance of a de-yellowed headlight. All of a sudden the sky is very BLUE...and so is the headlight!
I do see a significant reduction in the cloudiness and oxidation and yellowing, but i see some deceptive photography in your before/after pics.
BlackElantraGT
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RatedG said:
Those were my thoughts too.
Nice job nonetheless. I see the improvement.
RatedG said:
That seems really unfair. If the lighting conditions change there is not much you can do about it. That is one reason before and afters can be so difficult.
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Back on topic, very noticable improvement! Lucky you could stick with a compound, I had to wetsand mine.
imported_Frugle
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but it doesn't matter either way, in the first picture, you can't see the headlamp bulb, in the after picture you can. showing that you did a great job.
dietoremain
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ha all I have to say is a good pass of Meguiar's PlastX on a polishing pad with my PC works amazingly. on my headlights and also my friends celica a while back. Why bother with all that? haha.
[quote name='Scottwax']That seems really unfair. If the lighting conditions change there is not much you can do about it. That is one reason before and afters can be so difficult.
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I'm surprised the 1.5 hours elapsed time causes the lighting conditions to change so much that it would throw off the white balance of the camera. Must've been a fast-setting sun!
In hindsight, my post did have a slightly offensive connotation. I apologize for that. I understand lighting conditions change, and with the amount of time and products revautousa put into the process it no doubt produced a marvelous restoration. It's just that, on any other forum, before and after pics with that much of a deviance in color balance might make the effect look intentional. I just screamed 'photochop!' because I was surprised a photographer would post inconsistent before and after pics with his name attached to them. I've sure an equally light-balanced after pic would yield equally impressive results!
To contribute... i'll add that Klasse AIO also works great at deoxidizing and slightly polishing plastic headlights like the 240sx here, and this thread actually reminded me that I haven't done so myself in several months! I have a 240sx with glass silverstar sealed-beam headlights, and getting the yellow out will restore the pop of the 4000K white light.
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I'm surprised the 1.5 hours elapsed time causes the lighting conditions to change so much that it would throw off the white balance of the camera. Must've been a fast-setting sun!
In hindsight, my post did have a slightly offensive connotation. I apologize for that. I understand lighting conditions change, and with the amount of time and products revautousa put into the process it no doubt produced a marvelous restoration. It's just that, on any other forum, before and after pics with that much of a deviance in color balance might make the effect look intentional. I just screamed 'photochop!' because I was surprised a photographer would post inconsistent before and after pics with his name attached to them. I've sure an equally light-balanced after pic would yield equally impressive results!
To contribute... i'll add that Klasse AIO also works great at deoxidizing and slightly polishing plastic headlights like the 240sx here, and this thread actually reminded me that I haven't done so myself in several months! I have a 240sx with glass silverstar sealed-beam headlights, and getting the yellow out will restore the pop of the 4000K white light.