Cleaning plastic on mock light and hedlights

[SVXgarcia]

I remember seeing something here regarding a how to on cleaning the plastic on the headlights and mock light. I tried lacker thinner but it leaves a white dull surface. any suggestions?

[Earthworm]

What I've found works great and takes very little time is to take some fine scratch remover (I used Eagle One brand) and rub it into the lights with your fingers then buff off with a towel of choice.

[thundering02]

Just to note A scotchbrite pad and some water do wonders until time for the scratch remover or simple buffing compound.

[Dza]

I used 600 grit sandpaper, then 1000 grit, then 1500. After that, I hit it with some Maquires plastic polish. They look goooood.

Results here: http://www.subaru-svx.net/forum/showthread.php?t=26544

[lhopp77]

Before you use sandpaper, try some Brasso. If that does not get the scratches/yellow out use some real fine grit sandpaper and then the brasso. RainX after brasso.

Lee

[ssnsltd]

Bon Ami cleanser works well. I started using it after seeing a Shade Tree Mechanic show talk about it.
That will take off the yellowing, but imperfections in the lens from acid rain, chips ETC will still effect the beam pattern.
I used that on my 96’ and my brothers Florida Cars with great results. Use just enough water to make a paste out of it and polish the surface.

My 95’ lights were much worse so I used 2000 grit sand paper (wet sand) followed by Turtle wax (red) heavy duty rubbing compound, then 3M liquid polishing compound. That worked extremely well. When I used Liquid Glass over that they looked factory new. So good in fact now my 96’ lights now look like crap when the cars are side by side so I intend to do the same thing to them.

[Earthworm]

Here's what Eagle One fine scratch remover will do for you. Can you tell which headlight I cleaned?

[Conn SVX]

Wow were do they sell Eagle Brand scratch remover? come on fellas let's see what your lenses look like.

[thundering02]

Originally Posted by Earthworm

Here's what Eagle One fine scratch remover will do for you. Can you tell which headlight I cleaned?

I used 3m rubbing compuond ($10 for a bottle@walmart) and mine looked like that and after driving with the haze on the left for while (cleaned sort of) Man Does that make a difference

[Earthworm]

I don't think Eagle One offers the exact product I use (I got mine well over 3 years ago) but the closest I could find from them is this stuff:

REFERENCE LINK

Basically go to your favorite place for buying car detailing products and look for any kind of fine scratch remover and that should do the trick.

I use Blue Magic Plastic/Plexiglass cleaner. Great stuff.




Dave

[UberRoo]

http://www.subaru-svx.net/forum/showthread.php?t=27520

Look at the section where I buffed out my old lenses. Solvents will almost always make the problem worse.