How To Clean Headlights Sandpaper

Make sure to sand all the edges and all the corners.

How to clean headlights sandpaper. Slowly start sanding the headlight making sure to spray water while you sand. Cleaning a car headlight sometimes can be tricky especially when there is oxidized build up. After going over the headlights with your coarse paper switch to a sandpaper with a higher grit count and repeat the process until the finish changes from dull to kind of satiny on headlights with an interior texture where you cannot necessarily see the bulb you can usually stop at 1500 grit paper. This method works better than any other lens. After doing some research i decided to try to restore my truck s plastic headlights today.

Switch to the finer grade of sandpaper. You will also need a headlight polish or renewal kit and at least two microfiber cloths one for cleaning and one for drying. If nothing else has worked you ll have to get out a heavy duty headlight restoration kit. Water isn t needed but helps to make the paper last longer and make it easier. 1 1 4 piece of sandpaper per headlight.

In addition to the cleaning materials you will also need sandpaper 400 600 grit and painters tape or automotive masking tape. Sandpaper for cleaning a car headlight. For this guide we will focus on the more traditional cleaners so you will need either windex or soap and water. The toothpaste trick even compounding and polishing but still that foggy haze remained. In the first half.

Headlight restoration is all about choosing the right products and methods. In this video i show you how to restore headlights permanently. Do this for both headlights making sure not to reuse the sandpaper from the opposite headlight.