Headlight Restoration

[GrizzlyDan]

I must admit I was nervous about starting this but I had to give it a shot rather than try and find a new set of xenon headlights.

My headlights were flaky. Yellow and looking in a sad state

I used the autoglym headlight kit as I liked the idea of using the drill to aid the process. Step by step and going through the different grades of paper and finishing up with the polishing pad I manged to get my headlights back to a much nicer look.

To finish like this

Still slight round the edges where I wasn't brave enough to get so close to the paint. But I'd definitely re do them aging now i have seen the results

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[B5NUT]

Looks good, saw a C6 A6 the other day and the headlight were just about opaque, not sure how it passed it's MOT. I fitted new facelift headlights last year and have used this on them. http://www.3mventureshield.co.uk/paint-protection-film/ You can get it from ebay from around £30 far quicker to apply & remove that doing the headlight polishing (did my rear lights) with a similar kit to the autoglym, which gave good result, but like yourself I was concerned about burning the paint work so I remove the lights.

 

[GrizzlyDan]

Top tip there. Cheers. Il definitely look into that

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[RAV tdi]

The result look good, but for perfect finish, you should remove the lights. After you polish you should apply a specific varnish.

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[GrizzlyDan]

I agree about the light removal. I imagine it's a bumper off job though is it

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