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I recently broke one of my headlight lense so I had to buy a used set (Thanks to Driveline). The set wasn't in good shape, I knew it and it was better than a broken lense.
I bought a Mcguiar lense cleaning kit for $20 and cleaned them. As you can see below, the results are far from perfect but still better than before. Also the plastic diffuser is less yellowish than before. Even is not perfect it was still worth it and this is the reason of this post.
Feel free to share your experience as my lenses can still be improved!
Steps :
1- Remove the lense
2- Remove the plastic diffuser inside the lense
3- Clean everything
4- Wet sand paper (1000 grid) on both sides of the lense and plastic diffuser always in the same direction, not circular
5- Clean
6- Wet sand paper (3000 grid)
7- Clean
8- Use polisher (white bottle from Mcguiar)
9- Use protectant (black bottle from Mcguiar)
Plastic lenses will have a much more dramatic result. Once our glass lenses get chipped and "sandblasted" from road debris, cleaning them up is about the best you can do. You can't really repair them like the more modern plastic lenses.
FD motorsports sells a stick on film to protect them from further stone chips.
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Good to know, I was about to jump on Lamin-X. Have these on other cars and have worked with great success. They come pre-cut for our fog light lenses as well. Was even thinking of doing the slight blue-ish hue which should go well with the exterior color, and hide the slowly yellowing fog light lenses
Most of the PPF manufacturers have similar kits. I was looking at the X-Pel version for my new lenses. All of them will do a fine job of keeping the rock chips off the glass. Peel and replace when you want it to look perfect again.
I believe the hardest part is having them last when doing this. A suggestion might be to add clear bra over the lenses to help from having them fade down the road. I've used a few kits as well and the lenses just end up fading after about 6 months or so. Then again, my lenses were in much worse condition. They look great now! Good job.
04-25-2015, 10:22 AM
DIY - Cleaned my headlights lenses
