How To Clean Headlights To Look Like New

After doing this step use a shop towel and the rubbing alcohol and wipe the headlights clean.

How to clean headlights to look like new. But the store bought kits. In this video i show you how to restore headlights permanently. Wipe off and dry your headlights then squeeze some of your polishing compound out onto a clean microfiber towel. If you would like you can wash the car now as after we apply the urethane you won t want to touch the headlights for a good while. Stir the urethane and mineral spirits mixture.

Work it in a circular motion polishing repeatedly and uniformly in your little square. Add buffing compound to a clean microfiber cloth. Tips for cleaning oxidized headlights. For headlights that look like new not like foggy headlights then read about cleaning a car headlight below. Rub the dampened sandpaper over the lens evenly.

Buff the headlight until you begin to see white residual or slurry then continue buffing for 3 minutes. If they are foggy you need a special cleaner to restore their brightness and make visibility easier. So you re driving around super late at night in the middle of nowhere nm and you realize you can t see a thing. In the first half. Continue to add water to keep the headlight and paper damp.

Wet sand the headlights attach the 1500 grit sandpaper to the buffer and wet the sandpaper and headlight with water until just damp. Take a clean towel apply a quarter sized glob of buffing compound a pick a small area of the headlight to focus on say 4 x 4 inches 10 x 10 centimeters. Sanding your headlights using the spray bottle dampen a sheet of 1000 grit sandpaper. Clean your headlights with toothpaste. Spray the entire lens with water to thoroughly dampen.

This will get rid of any compound left on the headlights. And you and your significant other talk about cleaning the headlights or getting new bulbs or something. Rub in the polish for a few minutes using circular motions.