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Honduh
10-19-2006, 04:17 PM
Ok so I really got tired of my headlights looking like **** so I printed out the how to from the teg tips and went out and got the materials. 27 dollars and a bunch of elbow grease later and I'm pretty god damn happy. In the teg tip it says to get Mequiers clear plastic polish, and Mequiers clear plastic cleaner. Well I couldn't find them seperate, but I did find this stuff called Mequiers PlastX clear plasic polish and cleaner in one. I'll try to get better pics tomorrw, it got dark out while I was doing it.

Heres the pics:

http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c74/generictricycles/materials.jpg

Heres how they used to look:

http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c74/generictricycles/reflectionangle.jpg

And with the lights on how it used to look:

http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c74/generictricycles/fogsandHIDS.jpg

Then the process:

This was after just sanding

http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c74/generictricycles/aftersanding.jpg

And then after Polish

http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c74/generictricycles/afterpolish.jpg

And then renewed vs. gross yellow

http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c74/generictricycles/oldvsnew.jpg

Heres the second one all done

http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c74/generictricycles/2ndDone.jpg

and here it is again

http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c74/generictricycles/2ndDoneangle.jpg

And then heres the car all done and put back together

http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c74/generictricycles/alldone.jpg

And with the lights on after

http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c74/generictricycles/donelightson.jpg

After all said and done I couldn't be more happy. I didn't expect them to come out this good, but they did. I can acutally see through them, before they were just really really dull, now they look brand new. Best tip ever!

JSeoul
10-20-2006, 01:31 PM
Yeah... They look great and everything. I did that for my buddies 95-96 Ford Escort. Looked that good and *Brand New for about a month. So all that damn time & his money I spent on the products could have gone towards new headlights. PM me later on to tell me how long they last. You might want to buff them once a week if you start to see haze. They look great though.