I
purchased a ’04 Ford FreeStar mini van last month to be used for my weekend
hunting, camping, fishing expeditions and bug out vehicle. There is virtually
nothing wrong with this vehicle except for maybe the plastic headlight lenses.
They were a little cloudy, not real bad however well on the way to being a
problem. So I went out and purchased the $10.00 Meguiar’s 1-Step Headlight
Restoration Plus kit. Like most kits this was a joke. Some of these kits are as
high as $35.00. I did purchase the $10 Maguire’s kit but it was worthless.
So I went
back to my race car painting days and purchased a can of heavy duty rubbing compound
by turtle wax, a product I have used many times before when painting race cars.
Sure enough, this compound cut through the oxidized plastic and made everything
like brand new!
Moral of
this story: Use heavy duty rubbing compound and you will restore the headlight
lenses to like brand new for less than $3.00 Just mask off the vehicles paint
or the buffing pad can cut through the paint. Total time used per headlight was just 5
minutes.
I should
have taken the before photo but I didn’t think this would be worth posting but the cost savings and the speed at which it was done changed my mind.
The after
photo. I did wax the lens when I finished buffing it.
The
rubbing compound.
The
buffing pad used on an electric drill.
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