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Car Forum / Jaguar Cars / May 2008Polishing Headlight Lens on 2003 S-Type w/Xenon Lights
Lens has what appears to be pitting and has residue building on the top. At $1000US a side, would like to try and repair. Anyone know if this is glass or a composite like a polycarbonate and what to use to repair it? I believe it is UV damage to the plastic. Mine are starting to look fogged at the top as well. I have seen this cleaned up on car shows on TV. There are any number of cleaners/polishers that can fix this. Try http://www.meguiars.com/?clear-plastic-care/PlastX-Clear-Plastic-Cleaner-Polish or http://headlightsolution.net/ or try "headlight UV cleaner" in any search engine. I have not tried it yet but I will need to in the near future. The TV folks all said not to get this stuff on the paint. >Lens has what appears to be pitting and has residue building on the top. At >$1000US a side, would like to try and repair. Anyone know if this is glass >or a composite like a polycarbonate and what to use to repair it? > I believe it is UV damage to the plastic. Mine are starting to look > fogged at the top as well. I have seen this cleaned up on car shows [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] >> if this is glass or a composite like a polycarbonate and what to use >> to repair it? Thanks for replying. I found a lot of headlight restoration kits and ended up trying the following: http://www.autogeek.net/diamondite-headlight-how-to.html It only removed about half the residue so after further research I found an article that recommended using wet/dry sandpaper in grains/in2 of 1000 up to 3000. I found them here: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=300220600021 I only spent about 1 hour sanding then reapplied the polishing compounds using the restoration kit. That 2-step process did the trick. Looks practically brand new again.
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