Yesterday eveninng, take apart my 5th gen headlamp and trying to clean the housing. Then I tried to polish the cover, it doesn't work.

Today, I water sanded them and use them Blue Magic plastic scratch remover and polish. They turned out very well, Like new. I used 1500 and 2000 Grids sand paper (should have use 1000 and 2000 to save me time). Took me hella long time, those needles point scratchs so deep and there're so many of them. However, the cover turns out to be fine. :yay: Polish them and put the headlamp together. Cost me 3 hrs, 12 noon till 3. Right then, my gf came over, asked me to do the same thing for her 94 also. So I did it for her too, took me another 4 hrs. Then she saw how nice the new look of my DIY black housing, and asked me to swapped for her. Now I have her OEM chrome housing. I think the OEM will match my car's new color, once I paint it (within a month or so). The Black Housing would stand out like a soar thumb though. h:

Anyways, Put everything back on 2 cars. Take me forever since I mix up all the bolts and clips of 2 cars. :dunno: I finished everything by 9 PM. Both car's light output turns out SUPER GREAT, 3 times brighter than how they were. :thumbup:

Now, so tired, about to hit some zzzz :sleep: New Term start 2morrow............................ :upset:

 

Dang - thats a lot of work! I need to do the same with my headlights. I tried just the polish and it didn't do much. Guess I will try the wet sanding.

Got any pics?

 

nope, no pic for the current time, but definitely some once I got it painted.. Praying that I"ll get the money for the paint.

 

i was always afraid that id sand them and then it wouldnt clear up with polish, leaving me with even worse plastic....

did all the pits and everything go away?? is the plastic really like brand new or what?? if it is, ill do this as well, because i just polished mine last week with meguiars plastic polish and it worked great, but i still have all those pits in the plastic.....

 

not ALL of them, but over 90% went out, and some really deep onces are also fades away. Barely see it anymore. I'm sure it'll turns out better once you use your Meguiars plastic polish.

I used wet sand it with 1500 paper for a LONNGGG time, then used the 2000 to mid-dry sand it (I wet the lamp and sand it with dry paper, do it couple of times) then wet-sand it with 2000 to finish the touch.

wet sanding = nonstop watering and sanding at same time

FYI, before, people can know that I have Superwhites, Now, exactly the same my friend TL HID system (we parked and compared right after I finished putting things back on). I was amaze, can't tell the diff. He though that I had HID installed. I used Nokya 8500K Temp bulbs, even brighter than my PIAA Xtreme (now on my gf's).

 

oh yea, i had the 9005 conversion

 

Can I say...whooped? hehehe jk... =D

wow it be nice if u could have done a before and after pic.

 

wanna do mine too?

 

SlvrBullet - Just Imagine an Old haze cover with so many many needle pokes with a new headlamp. as for light output, imagine a corolla sitting next to a 300 IS.

99Accord - i'd help you out on the weekends if you get me some KFCs or buffets sad thing is you're not in my area, GA