Sanded my headlights....

So I finally got tired of looking at those nasty yellow headlights. Some of you may remember my idea of putting a coat of clear over them but I just didn't have the time to do it when I go home. I am very pleased with the way they turned out.

http://i189.photobucket.com/albums/z173/SilvrEclipse/DSCF2390.jpg http://i189.photobucket.com/albums/z173/SilvrEclipse/DSCF2392.jpg

http://i189.photobucket.com/albums/z173/SilvrEclipse/DSCF2395.jpg http://i189.photobucket.com/albums/z173/SilvrEclipse/DSCF2396.jpg

It looks like the pictures on the left are the after pics? Hard to say because of the lighting though. The bottom left pic looks good.

Yea the ones on the left are the after. You can kinda see how bad they were on the top right pic. Should have done this a long time ago. I think it took around 4-5 hours to do the whole thing. There is no way to get the lights out with the bumper on.

wow that looks awesome...mine are so fogged and yellow...think i might just ship em off to ya :-)

lol. Mine weren't really bad. Im not sure if it would take make them perfect again but it would deffinately help.

So did you just use high digit grit the whole time???

You have poked my interest...Nothin uglier than my piss yellow headlights

Started with 320,400,600,800,1000,1500, then 2000. Then used mothers mag & aluminum polish to make them shine.

Damn...TGIF man...im definentely startin that up tomoro

thanks

Post pics when you get done

One last ?...did you just sand the exterior??? or did you take it apart and get the inside

The outside only.

Started with 320,400,600,800,1000,1500, then 2000. Then used mothers mag & aluminum polish to make them shine.

Wow I hope you didn't sand them so far down that now when you get a nice sized rock fly up at you they shatter. I plan on doing mine next summer when I get *cough NEW PAINT cough* and I won't touch mine with less than 1,000 to begin with and end with 2,000.

320 is wayyyy too rough, so is 400, 600 isn't so bad, but i bet you took off alot of material there. It took me about 15 minutes with an orbital buffer to get my headlights looking like new again. I realize not everyone has access to an orbial buffer, but I bet if you gave a bodyshop $20 they would do it for you right there. I didn't even take them out, just be careful not to hit sharp edges of the paint otherwise you'll buff right through in minutes.

Those lenes are pretty thick, I also didn't use to much pressure so they should be fine. Im really not concerned about it.

Lol well I would have taken the easy route and bring it to the local body shop except my poor dsm is grounded in my garage...dont have the pics up yet but I used an orbital sander at school that runs on compressed air (one of my favs with wood working) with some 1000, 1500, and 2000 this morning...god they are gorgeous

I wouldn't have used an orbital sander, but if it worked thats all that matters. Are they completely clear now? I have never tried this method on lights that are really bad.

yea...it worked pretty well...i wish we could compare to let others know the best method...they way I did it though I had to be pretty carefull...even with 1000 on the it will do some damage if you have it opened up with pretty good pressure

took about 1 and a half hours (not straight hard work tho, a lil bs'n)

Well I wanted to see if it really worked so i half assed it on the talon for about 10 minutes with 1000 grit and then polished it up. Sometime this week ill buy me some 2000 grit and give it another shot. Heres what I got so far.

http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r149/badeclipse/lightbefore.jpg

http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r149/badeclipse/lightafter.jpg