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Offline Chunkyjh

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Hazy yellowed headlights before/after
« on: June 15, 2012, 01:18:59 pm »
So a colleague at work asks me to look out for a new set of headlights for her 55 plate mk5 2.0 fsi. I ask her why and she tells me they're hazy and yellowed through sun damage. This seems to be an issue with some mk5s. I tell I'll fix it for beer and save her a few hundred quid. So I go and buy a 3m headlight restoration kit and get polishing.

I don't have a da polisher so I went down this route as you can use it with a drill. £24 for the pack which comes with various grades of disc, a foam backing plate, a form polisher and some rubbing compound.

He's before....







And after....







All in took 1.5 hours

Not perfect but a load better than before

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Re: Hazy yellowed headlights before/after
« Reply #1 on: June 15, 2012, 01:20:30 pm »
Good job there. :happy2:
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Re: Hazy yellowed headlights before/after
« Reply #2 on: June 15, 2012, 02:21:18 pm »
How did you find the 3m kit?

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Re: Hazy yellowed headlights before/after
« Reply #3 on: June 15, 2012, 02:47:42 pm »
They have turned out great :happy2:
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Re: Hazy yellowed headlights before/after
« Reply #4 on: June 15, 2012, 02:49:05 pm »
Yeah I thought it was good. Easy to use, just what I needed. Was only enough kit in it for a single use so works out quite expensive I suppose. cheaper than new lights though

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Re: Hazy yellowed headlights before/after
« Reply #5 on: June 15, 2012, 02:49:37 pm »
They have turned out great :happy2:

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Re: Hazy yellowed headlights before/after
« Reply #6 on: June 15, 2012, 06:05:51 pm »
Nice one, good job. I did the same on my Mom's Focus, but it was just the one headlight. Ended up looking newer than the other one which looked ok before. :laugh:

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Re: Hazy yellowed headlights before/after
« Reply #7 on: June 15, 2012, 07:50:48 pm »
where did you buy this kit?

Great results! :happy2:

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Re: Hazy yellowed headlights before/after
« Reply #8 on: June 15, 2012, 11:22:27 pm »
Ebay mate, just search for 3m headlight restoration kit  :wink:

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Re: Hazy yellowed headlights before/after
« Reply #9 on: June 17, 2012, 07:01:27 pm »
I've just done some for a mate last week failed mot on no pattern so wet flatted with 800 then 1200 and finished with 2000 them mopped with compound better than new and past mot