3M Headlight Lens Restoration System



3M Headlight Lens Restoration System

3M Headlight Lens Restoration System
Showing posts with label Cloudy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cloudy. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Anyone Can Clean Their Car, But What About Those Cloudy, Yellow Headlights?

Anyone Can Clean Their Car, But What About Those Cloudy, Yellow Headlights?


It is a very common occurrence. Then We see every day. Its like a disease-yellow, cloudy headlight lenses in drastic need of repAir. I even saw them on cars at the local carwash. It befuddled me that these people would take such great care-washing, vacuuming the interior, removing the floor mats and even hand drying their cars, but they still had those yellow 'd, cloudy headlights. Its not just a problem on old, very used cars. It is prevalent on 2-3 year old cars also. It doesn't matter if it is a Dodge, Ford, Mercedes, or a Porsche.

Anyone Can Clean Their Car, But What About Those Cloudy, Yellow Headlights?

Anyone Can Clean Their Car, But What About Those Cloudy, Yellow Headlights?

Anyone Can Clean Their Car, But What About Those Cloudy, Yellow Headlights?


Anyone Can Clean Their Car, But What About Those Cloudy, Yellow Headlights?



Anyone Can Clean Their Car, But What About Those Cloudy, Yellow Headlights?

When questioned, most said they couldn't afford, or didn't want to pay the high prices of replaceMents from their local auto dealer. The average price for a pAir of replaceMent plastic headlights atlocal car dealerships was around $ 450-that didn't even include installation and alignMent (that would be another $ 60 -120). After market headlights do exist, but have received mixed reviews, and the savings aren't that great quality and fit is lagging, and then you still had to have them installed and aligned. And for what I know you can do it again in another year or two?

There is another solution, there are repAir, headlight cleaner and restorer kits available for under $ 30 (look up headlight cleaner and/or headlight restorer on Google), much less expensive than replaceMent lenses, and they work!

Plastic headlight lenses are the norm in the automotive industry now-every car has them. Some have fancy names like plexanand Lexan, but they all have the same problems. The sun, acid rain, harsh weather conditions, chemicals (brake fluid, power steering fluid, radiator fluids, hot water, harsh cleaners, etc. ..) will all cause the plastic lenses to degrade and weaken quickly. Some manufacturers have gone to including a protective film on the lenses. Regardless, they are all susceptible to this weakening and yellowing over time.

With these headlight repAir, cleaner and restorer kits even junk yard car lenses have been repaired and restored to brand new (as evidenced on some websites). These same lenses used to be discarded and now have become new profit centers for salvage yards. The treatments are similarly applied to the exterior of the> headlight lens where the damage is worst and it doesn't take a mechanic to repair it.

These kits can easily be found under headlight cleaner and headlight restorer on Google. So now you know there is a very economic solution to the problem of yellow, cloudy, worn headlights -repair, clean and restore them to new again. There's no excuse now to not have sparkling clean headlights. Car dealerships have been using these headlight repair, cleaner and restorer on their cars and you can too.

Anyone Can Clean Their Car, But What About Those Cloudy, Yellow Headlights?

Monday, December 12, 2011

Cloudy Plastic Headlight Restoration

Cloudy Plastic Headlight Restoration


Travel, weather, ultraviolet radiation, and exposure to various chemicals can result in headlight oxidation on your vehicle. This condition is not only unattractive, taking away that showroom-quality look your car once had, it can also be dangerous. Severely cloudy headlight lenses can reduce nighttime visibility to an extent that they can eventually allow through less light than you need for proper, legal levels of illumination in the dark. This problem doesn't discriminate when it comes to vehicles: all makes and models are vulnerable. Cloudy plastic headlight restoration is not only for aesthetics, but for safety.

DIY Cloudy Plastic Headlight Restoration

Cloudy plastic headlight restoration is a process by which you resurface the plastic lens cover in a three step process that involves cleaning, removing oxidation, and then applying a protective coating to the surface to retard the process from starting over again. Kits used for this process come with two levels of cleaning products, special pads with adapters that you attach to your drill, protectant spray to keep your handiwork looking new for as long as possible, and sometimes special microfiber polishing Cloths.

Cost Savings with Cloudy Plastic Headlight Restoration

Kits for cloudy plastic headlight restoration generally cost from to , and this represents a huge cost savings over replacing cloudy plastic headlight lenses. ReplaceMent headlight lenses start at over apiece, and can go as high as several hundred Dollars - that's for each, not for a pAir. One headlight restoration kit, on the other hand ise made to restore both headlights. Some kits come with extra cleaner so that you can reuse the pads and restore more headlight lenses with no added cost.

If your headlight lenses have become cloudy - and if your car is more than three years old, they probably have - then you need to restore your headlight lenses to their original clear condition. Not only will your car look spiffy and extra clean, the safety of your car will be improved since the light put out by your headlights won't be blocked by cloudy lens covers. Headlight lens restoration kits are great, cost effective ways of having like-new headlights on your car at a fraction of the cost of replacing the lens covers.


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