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Re: How to wet sand your headlights - A guide
« Reply #30 on: March 20, 2012, 04:15:12 pm »
Deffo gonna give this a go in the summer. My car is let down with some terrible swirls and scratches on the headlights. Hosepipe or airline has been dragged over them.
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Re: How to wet sand your headlights - A guide
« Reply #31 on: March 20, 2012, 04:40:03 pm »
 :happy2: you've given me some confidence to do this myself! long overdue, thanks bud for a great write up!
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Re: How to wet sand your headlights - A guide
« Reply #32 on: March 24, 2012, 04:17:42 am »
Great guide, and thanks for the tip on the Collinite 476 to seal. This is the crucial step I missed out when using the Megs 1 step kit. I'm gonna give this one more go and then seal this time  :stupid: but if that doesn't work, I'll follow your guide.
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Re: How to wet sand your headlights - A guide
« Reply #33 on: May 17, 2012, 06:46:33 pm »
Is there any particular sandpaper thats best? Not sure where to get it. Is boggo Halfords paper good enough? Also is it best to use some kind of block to wrap the sandpaper in for the sanding? Just want to make sure I do it right!
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Re: How to wet sand your headlights - A guide
« Reply #34 on: May 17, 2012, 07:05:45 pm »
this is JUST what i need, Great write up :happy2:

I have some very strange marks on both headlights that need to go!
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Re: How to wet sand your headlights - A guide
« Reply #35 on: March 16, 2013, 10:46:48 am »
Nice thred and loads of useful info :) going to be giving this a go myself :)
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Re: How to wet sand your headlights - A guide
« Reply #36 on: March 19, 2013, 12:18:47 pm »
I did it with the 3m kit. Its a doddle.
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Re: How to wet sand your headlights - A guide
« Reply #37 on: March 19, 2013, 05:31:33 pm »
Awesome guide mate
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Re: How to wet sand your headlights - A guide
« Reply #38 on: July 18, 2013, 09:47:28 pm »
Great guide mate.. Me and a friend just decided to start on mine about 30 minutes ago thinking it would only take a little while.. Wrong!! I now have a cloudy headlight hahaha. But will be getting back to it tomorrow after work..
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Re: How to wet sand your headlights - A guide
« Reply #39 on: August 28, 2013, 03:50:37 pm »
Has anyone done their rear lights like this?
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Re: How to wet sand your headlights - A guide
« Reply #40 on: August 30, 2013, 06:59:58 pm »
I've never seen the rears cloud over??  If you're just referring to scratches and swirls then a machine polish will bring them up a treat
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Re: How to wet sand your headlights - A guide
« Reply #41 on: August 30, 2013, 08:23:34 pm »
Yeah, just general marks on them, after being described as being in very good condition....  :fighting:
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Re: How to wet sand your headlights - A guide
« Reply #42 on: September 02, 2013, 11:15:45 am »
Great guide!
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Re: How to wet sand your headlights - A guide
« Reply #43 on: September 15, 2013, 08:06:58 am »
Great guide. I still don't have the guts to do it myself lol. Anyone in Somerset done it and want to earn some beer tokens doing mine as there getting worse :-(
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Re: How to wet sand your headlights - A guide
« Reply #44 on: January 11, 2014, 10:36:02 pm »
REALLY useful guide. Bought a pair of bare Xenon headlights for very little as the passenger side had some pretty horrendous scratches. I knew it was going to take some time but the results are well worth the effort. I started at 600 (i did say it was heavily scratched) moving on to 800, 1000, 1200, 1500, 2000 and finishing on 2000 grit. I still need to give them a once over with Plastix but even with a hand polish i and stunned by by the difference.

I do have wrists like a T-rex now thou!
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