How To Clean Yellow Headlights At Home

Work it in a circular motion polishing repeatedly and uniformly in your little square.

How to clean yellow headlights at home. You can use bug spray with around 25 deet. In this video i show you how to restore headlights permanently. This method works better than any other lens. Make sure you are not using toothpaste in excess as you only need a small amount. Deet is the quickest and most efficient way to clean oxidation from headlights as it will melt the headlight plastic and its oxidation.

Rub the cloth in a circle onto the wet headlights and apply more toothpaste if necessary. Yup the very one that s sitting in your pantry. The first thing you need to take care of is a little headlight cleaning. Place the toothpaste on the toothbrush and rub in on the headlight in circular motions. Not only will it clear up foggy headlights but it ll also help when you re cleaning paint off your fog lights.

You now have a nice clean headlight and you can see at night again. To clean headlights with toothpaste you need an old toothbrush one teaspoon of white non gel toothpaste and your own elbow grease. Apply a fingertip amount of toothpaste to the soft cloth. 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. Wipe down the plastic lenses of the headlights with some soap and water to remove dirt and debris.

The headlights are sanded so they will still appear foggy but they should not be yellow. Allow to dry without driving for 42 hours before removing masking tape. Using baking soda as a homemade headlight cleaner. When dried mask off around the outside of the headlight with masking tape to protect the car s paint and apply an even coat of automotive clear coat. This is where the minwax spar urethane comes in.

Take the urethane and pop the top. Celebrate for the hard work is done. Bug spray with deet will clean your hazy oxidated headlights when really needed and it will keep them clean around a week. Now that you know how much hard work you did we want to protect the headlights from turning back into the way they were. In the first half.