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mk8 headlight lens'

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Posted by: rrich

I'll pass it on so here go's, ya know how the headlight lens doe's it's rendition
of (my anywayafter 1t to many beer's) gettind dull,dim?well I think I may have found somthing that hhelp's ...acetone(nail polish remover) I had some laying around what I did was this ..put the acetone on a sponge,squeezed out the excessso it was just damp.got perpared to "rub it in" and found out all I had 2 do was gently wipe it on .It seemed to get rid of the dullness I've never seen a new lens assembly so concervatively it seemed to approximatly(?) improved the l
by at least 75%...just thought I'd pass it on. I searched on e-bayand found !
guy who sells len's assemblies 4 250.00 EACH,plus peaple who sold variouas kit's ranging from 10 buck's 2 50 bucks I just thought I could do a little
better

ps:b careful around headlights as acetone is a good PAINT REMOVER.

Posted by: mespock

Give an up date on how long this lasts. Congrats I know you have been searching for a bit.

Happy New Year

Posted by: jkastell

i was able to wet sand and polish mine. they came out like new

Posted by: chris

I was up at my favorite body shop the other day scheduling my wife's mercury and they were advertising a headlight restoration service. They tell me they charge $90 but most shops are doing it for 85-150. They wet sand, spray on some stuff, let it sit wet sand and spray again, then I think they wet sand a final time. They're telling me it lasts about 2 years. I'm gonna take the lincoln to them when the Merc comes out. I'm curious to see how it goes. I'll report back.

Posted by: rrich

Quote:

Originally Posted by mespock

Give an up date on how long this lasts. Congrats I know you have been searching for a bit.

Happy New Year

I guess it will last as long as your "singing phenoma" last's (roflmao).
improved ads they are ,I think it needs new low beam bulbs.i'll keep u informed,,,

Posted by: rrich

Quote:

Originally Posted by jkastell

i was able to wet sand and polish mine. they came out like new

I'll try that if I need 2, thank's

Posted by: 94m5

I have a feeling your doing more damage than good with the acetone. It has a funny habit of crazing polycarbonate. This looks like a bunch of little wrinkles all over the plastic's surface.

The only way I have found to improve the LOOK of the lenses is to wet sand starting with 1500 and working up to 3000 grit. The lights themselves are dim for a completely different reason. (burnt reflective coating inside the housing caused by overheating).

If you hav'nt noticed any harm done by the acetone....congrats cause you got lucky. I tried it on an old set of mine and ended up ruining them.

Mike

Posted by: ALBUNDY

Is it nail polish remover that you use or nail polish remover you found layin around?

Posted by: Markviiiedrea

all right this might have come up before but is it posable to rechrome the reflector behind the lenze and is there a place or a method of doing it thats cheaper then buying new? couse if I can redo mine and put a clear lenz on then the reflector wont burn off like the crappy stock ones.

Posted by: 94m5

Yes it is POSSIBLE.......

google "chroming plastic"

It's a process where they put the parts in a vacumn chamber, and inject powdered metal, and somehow it coats the part to a mirror finish. I've looked in to it before......

LOTS of money if your only gonna do one set.

Mike

Posted by: Markviiiedrea

well if it works i will do more I have a few sets and a few cars, and a few friends that will do it to if it works, i might have to look into this a little more. I know how to remove the lenz so this might work, cool thanxs

Posted by: hotrodlincoln93

i cleaned mine up with this 3M cleaning/polishing compound... i went over both lights twice and the yellowness was gone. been good for a while now for me.

Posted by: turborich

What works for me has always been jewelers rouge and a high speed polisher, it will give the outside a mirror finish. The dull inside is another story.

Posted by: my95mark8

Mine are yellow and not smooth at all.
I am going to try some polishing compound and a buffer.

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