My First Attempt At Headlight Restoration

[PearlWhiteGT]

I tried cleaning up the headlights on 2 of our cars. On the green cougar I need to go over them again with 600 or 800 grit to try & get the rest of the old clear off.

Before:

After:

Here is the G35 coupe. I need some advice on how to get the haze off. You can see it when the lights are on. Both of these were real quick attempts so next time I will take my job & work slow.

Before:

 

[PearlWhiteGT]

 

[PearlWhiteGT]

Got to give a big THANKS to "9D4E420" for all the help & nice write up for me!!!

 

[Beemerboy]

Looks like you still need to get some of the sand marks / hazing on the G35 (love that car)...are you doing this by hand?

On the green Cougar you need to sand that down a bit more to really get the rest of the CC off

All in all this is a great job!

 

[PearlWhiteGT]

I'm using a cordless drill with 4" CCS orange pads & SSR2.5 then follow up with PB Pro Polish. How do I get the sand marks off? I wet sanded them with 2000. Do I just need to polish them out some more?

 

[JaredPointer]

Keep in mind there may be some things you just can't do. They both look a lot better, and while I still think there's room for improvement on the Cougar, I wouldn't try to get perfection out of the Infiniti. I don;t know if what I am saying makes sense to you or not, but on a daily driver it may be hard to reach and/or stay at that "perfect" level.

As far as removing haze, it looks like more polishing would do the trick.

 

[PearlWhiteGT]

I understand what you are saying. I'm going to work on them a little more this weekend. Thanks for the info!

 

[Poorboy]

the improvement is showing and Jared's advice is on the money ... take your time and the results will follow

 

[dr_detail]

some of the hazing may be on the inside of the fixture

 

[9D4E420]

some of the hazing may be on the inside of the fixture

Yes I absolutely agree the haze is more than likely on the inside. I see that all the time. There is nothing you can do but replace the whole assembly.

 

[PearlWhiteGT]

I'll have to take a closer look at them today. I really think that the hazing is due to the sanding. I'm going to try some SSR1 with a white pad then follow up with Pro Polish & see how it turns out. Thanks fellas for all the input!!! If it wasn't for these types of forums I would have never known that this was possible to do. So Thanks Again!!!!!!!

-Mike

 

[sal329]

big improvement nice work

 

[PearlWhiteGT]

Thanks! I still have a lot to learn.

 

[PearlWhiteGT]

I wet sanded them a little more to try & get the clear coat off. Here is the final pic of one of them.

 

[Poorboy]

tremendous difference from the first picture :inspector: :bigups

 

[PearlWhiteGT]

Thanks!!! There are still some sanding marks but I ran out of time. I will hit them again when I get the chance.