marks gt

Going to buy new lenses, but would it be better to save my current ones, and just buy some cores to rebuild? Not sure what the cores would cost?

Current ones are not crack but showing there age against the new paint.

Thanks for the input.

jcorenman

Not sure what you mean by cores. The 87+ tail lights come as a complete assembly, list price is $450/ea, used in decent condition are scarce.

If yours are not cracked then they are already better than most. Have you tried polishing the plastic lenses with Meguiar's or similar?

marks gt

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marks gt

I thought for $450 you just get the lense, and have to reuse your housing?

Kevin in Atlanta

Whole thing less the harness for 450 - not like pre-s4

jcorenman

No, that gets you the whole thing-- lens and housing bonded together, without the electrical harness and sockets. I've never seen the lenses offered separately.

But yours look quite good, I would definitely go after them with polish. Even if you shop around, a pair of new ones is still going to set you back nearly $700.

Start with Meguiar's #17 plastic cleaner and #10 polish, if that doesn't do it then go over the lenses with 2000-grit color-sanding paper, then rubbing compound and then the Mequiar's polish. The kits for polishing out plastic headlight covers would also do a good job on the plastic lenses.

Alan

I think those look no worse than typical - certainly don't look bad.

Alan

soontobered84

No, you are right. Those look terrible and you shouldn't have them on your car.

Send them to me immediately and I will dispose of them properly.

marks gt

I must have confused the rear lights with the front fogs when taking with roger.

Might stop by wilholts today and compare

Using 928 logic I will replace the tail lights on my current car and than buy another 928 with a broken tail light Because it have the parts laying around

Martin's928

I polished out a set of headlight covers (hard plastic) on a 2004 Infiniti which were sand blasted from desert use (couldn't even see through them) and they came out like new…….saved me several hundred dollars in new covers. Worth a try….

MainePorsche

Agree.

WallyP

A large tube of Colgate toothpaste works as well or better than the expensive polishing compounds.

martinss

I have used a couple of different plastic lense polishing kits on other cars. They typically come with a series of different sanding papers of increasing grit size and one or two polishing compounds. For severely scratched or pitted lights you have to start with the coarsest paper to get out deep marks, then work up. Simply using polishing compound does not work - at least not in my lifetime. But in the case of the lights shown by the OP, there do not seem to be deep pits or scratches, only hazing, so likely polishing compound (or toothpaste as Wally suggests) will be sufficient.