Faded Plastic Headlight Lenses?

[al bradley]

Just a note to let other members here know that I purchased one of those kits to clean up and polish faded plastic headlight lenses. It worked great on my 91 Taurus Wagon, and if you follow the directions it works like they say. Basically my kit came with two foam-rubber disks that fit into a hand drill and the disks are coated with 6 or 7 hundred grit wet and dry sandpaper. After you polish with the disk, they give you another foam-rubber disk you can use for apply some polishing compound that makes the lenses even clearer. The kit was about $12.00.

[Schaff68]

I have a kit from autozone , price was 15.00, but i have used colgate toothpaste and a mocrofiber cloth with good results and i have used polishing compound and a microfiber cloth towel with really good results.

[65comet]

A warning about those headlight buckets. One of mine had a small leak that corroded a line that followed the leak on the chrome inside the bucket. I took it apart and wiped some chrome cleaner/polish on it. All, and I do mean ALL, of the chrome that it touched came off down to the white plastic. It is an unbelievably thin layer of chrome that they put on it.

[Schaff68]

yes the layer is very thin, and if anyone needs new replacement headlight assemblies, for just about any brand of car, try Carolina Automotive Wholesale. they have great prices on radiators to.