Dear all,
Thank you all for providing many usefull guides and explanations for all things auid. I must have saved a bomb.
As a thank you and an early xmas present, i thought i would share my experiences of fog light polishing... i think you'll agree it makes quite a difference to the appearance.
As you can see, the fogs were looking a little tired after over 100K of stone chips.
so a little restoration was required.
Obviously to begin with remove the fogs, exceptionally easy, and i didnt even draw any blood doing it.
Next i needed to sand the glass aggressively to remove the majority of the dents and chips, i used a dremmel with an fairly abraisive sandpaper. Try to use uniform pressure or youll end up with slight marks which are really hard to remove...
then you end up with something like this...
Next i used two grades of wet and dry sandpaper (with water obviously) The first was 250 the second 1200, obviously any variation of these grades would be fine, the idea is you start rought and progress to smooth...
Next i used a rubbing compound (which got from halfords) i used a felt bobbin which came from the polishing pack (see later). The guide in the polishing pack recommends using a drill speed of about 1000rpm as a balance between getting the job done quickly and not covering yourself with crap from the drill.
I used a pillar drill because im lazy and its hard work...
This is what it looked like at this stage...
Next i used the powder provided in the polishing pack. I got the pack from Screwfix (just search for glass polishing kit). It is basically a light powder you mix with water.
Then just keep going....
It took about an hour per light to do - it was very cold and i could feel my fingers.. !
The result is worth it and its cheap (about £20 for the polishing pack). I couldnt get all the chips out - only about 95%, still not bad.
Hope its of use to someone.
Cheers
Thank you all for providing many usefull guides and explanations for all things auid. I must have saved a bomb.
As a thank you and an early xmas present, i thought i would share my experiences of fog light polishing... i think you'll agree it makes quite a difference to the appearance.
As you can see, the fogs were looking a little tired after over 100K of stone chips.
so a little restoration was required.
Obviously to begin with remove the fogs, exceptionally easy, and i didnt even draw any blood doing it.
Next i needed to sand the glass aggressively to remove the majority of the dents and chips, i used a dremmel with an fairly abraisive sandpaper. Try to use uniform pressure or youll end up with slight marks which are really hard to remove...
then you end up with something like this...
Next i used two grades of wet and dry sandpaper (with water obviously) The first was 250 the second 1200, obviously any variation of these grades would be fine, the idea is you start rought and progress to smooth...
Next i used a rubbing compound (which got from halfords) i used a felt bobbin which came from the polishing pack (see later). The guide in the polishing pack recommends using a drill speed of about 1000rpm as a balance between getting the job done quickly and not covering yourself with crap from the drill.
I used a pillar drill because im lazy and its hard work...
This is what it looked like at this stage...
Next i used the powder provided in the polishing pack. I got the pack from Screwfix (just search for glass polishing kit). It is basically a light powder you mix with water.
Then just keep going....
It took about an hour per light to do - it was very cold and i could feel my fingers.. !
The result is worth it and its cheap (about £20 for the polishing pack). I couldnt get all the chips out - only about 95%, still not bad.
Hope its of use to someone.
Cheers
