I picked up the Permatex Headlight Lens Restoration Kit last year because I wanted to see if it would actually work on my Altima’s headlights. I actually lost the kit, but found it today so I figured I’d give it a shot while I’m getting the car ready for winter. The kit was $10 at pepboys.
Basically what you get with the kit is 4 different grades of sandpaper for wetsanding, polish, soft towel, gloves and instuctions lol. I have never wetsanded before, so this was kind of new and exciting (little nervous too). The grits for the sand paper are 1000, 1500, 2000, and 2500. Because the headlights weren’t completely destroyed I started with 1500 and worked my way up to 2500. After the wet sanding and polishing was complete, all the yellow had been removed from the headlight, though it was still a little cloudy. I Finished off the headlight with a light compound and buff and the headlights looked awesome. Def a good pick up for someone who has rough headlights. Total time was around an hour to do.
and actually, I think they look better then the pictures show. They look a little cloudy in the pics, but thats cause I had a shakey hand taking pics…and it was dark lol
I have done this before that kit came out, it would have been nice to pick up one kit instead of going store to store for everything needed. The kit looks to be really complete and you did a great job. :tup:
I did this basically on my audi tails that were all cloudy and would not polish out. I tried plastic polish, it did nothing. I bought 800, 1000, 1500, 2000 grits and wetsanded. They came out great. All you need to buy is individual sheets of sandpaper which you can buy at carquest.
I Need to pick that up. My Subaru’s headlights are way yellow. Meguirs Plastix helped a tiny bit, but not much, and it’s bothering me, and likely killing light output too.
