I had an awesome experience with Meguiar’s PlastX today. Pulled the taillight lenses off the ’70 Karmann Ghia, figuring I could polish them up a bit. (I'd guess nobody has paid attention to the taillight lenses in the past 34 years. 
) Here’s what happened after polishing one of them. (Can you tell which is polished? 
)
What did I use? First, washed them with diluted Megs APC+. Then polished with Meguiar’s PlastX. Somebody suggested a while back that foam cosmetic sponges would be useful for working in small areas, so I bought some and tried them on this job; but the sponge started breaking-up immediately – it just wasn’t sturdy enough for this job. So I switched to a tiny (thanks, BradB!) microfiber for the polishing/abrasion, then buffed-off with one of my regular microfibers. As Mike Phillips had warned me, it took a lot of elbow grease -- I used so much pressure/force that I had to be careful not to crack the plastic! But the results were overwhelming to me. Then, just for good measure, I finished-up with Mother’s Plastic Polish, then a spritz-clean with Novus. The PlastX took off the heavy grunge, but there’s no doubt the Mothers and Novus made the lens shinier.
I’m fairly impressed with the results. Hope you can tell which one is treated in this shot, and which is still untouched.
One thing that most impressed me was how this treatment cleaned-up the yellowed “clear� section of the lenses. The difference in the red was quite dramatic, but the difference in the "clear" section -- while subtle -- was still apparent to me. I’m afraid this shot is not quite clear enough to show the difference that I perceived, but I hope you can see some difference.
) Here’s what happened after polishing one of them. (Can you tell which is polished? )
What did I use? First, washed them with diluted Megs APC+. Then polished with Meguiar’s PlastX. Somebody suggested a while back that foam cosmetic sponges would be useful for working in small areas, so I bought some and tried them on this job; but the sponge started breaking-up immediately – it just wasn’t sturdy enough for this job. So I switched to a tiny (thanks, BradB!) microfiber for the polishing/abrasion, then buffed-off with one of my regular microfibers. As Mike Phillips had warned me, it took a lot of elbow grease -- I used so much pressure/force that I had to be careful not to crack the plastic! But the results were overwhelming to me. Then, just for good measure, I finished-up with Mother’s Plastic Polish, then a spritz-clean with Novus. The PlastX took off the heavy grunge, but there’s no doubt the Mothers and Novus made the lens shinier.
I’m fairly impressed with the results. Hope you can tell which one is treated in this shot, and which is still untouched.
One thing that most impressed me was how this treatment cleaned-up the yellowed “clear� section of the lenses. The difference in the red was quite dramatic, but the difference in the "clear" section -- while subtle -- was still apparent to me. I’m afraid this shot is not quite clear enough to show the difference that I perceived, but I hope you can see some difference.
