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And how is the new steering wheel ? Enjoying it? 
Thanks - I do like it - I "think" its shrunk a bit on the right side, flat bottom is still baggy, will just have see how it progresses.
Well I have had quite a time improving my headlights over the last couple of weeks -
Not happy with light output - I had a lexus behind me one night, its lights were brighter than my own...
lights out I delved deeper into the Xenon units, all the wiring in good condition not hardened or cracked, removed the bowl and lense:
I was expecting these to be burnt through without reflector, but they were mint! only issue I found was milkyness on the lense:
Cleaned:
Re-installed the bowls with new mid-range Xenon bulbs, and as the lights were out I replaced the halogen high beam & indicator bulbs - retained my LED side lights.
Outer Lenses:
I first tried a Holts restore kit, I chose this as it comes with lots of grades of sand paper and a drill attachment.
I read on here another person had experienced the kit creating more scratches - the box says that both sanding discs and drill attachment are 75mm diameter, but the attachment is 80mm, leaving very hard velcro overlapping to scratch the lense:
Took a lot of polishing to get these "new" scratches out, eventually got to the stage of adding the sealing compound, but didn't like the finish. Decided to lacquer the lights instead...but I was too heavy handed and ended up with drips...and didn't help that the heavy duty lacquer was slightly yellow...so I had to sand it all off:
Ended up hand sanding these all down, polished them with the holts scratch remover and then ceramic coated the units... this had taken 1.5 weeks to get here!
But in sunlight it highlighted scratches still present, brother in law like his detailing, gave me Meguiar's Plastic RX and this finally got the lenses into a good enough state.
This is before, not too bad:
After, not perfect, but a lot better:
Dipped beams light output before:
After:
Side by side there isn't much difference before/after, my Xenon bulbs had degraded considerably.
In traffic I can now see the road in front, it's not drowned out by other light sources, I'm not thinking where has the road gone!
New toy - really good, set the pressure in either PSI, BAR or kPa and pull the trigger and it cuts off when it gets there:
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Only improvement would be if it bled down over filled tyres, I had to manually let air out...but maybe I'm asking too much!
If you already have Makita LXT batteries, it's a cheap buy.
