Weathered lights

[devnet1]

My front lights on my M2 Phase1 are looking really weathered, has anybody got any advice to restore them?

 

[Pettsi]

How do you mean weathered?

Post up some pics.

 

[RussZS]

They can be polished with a rotary and compound to restore them quite easily and quickly

 

[Viper]

check this guide

http://www.cliosport.net/forum/showthread.php?t=415840

done it on mine and made some improvements

 

[devnet1]

 

[devnet1]

Cheers for the link for that guide, i am a tiny bit worried i might make them worse than they are at the moment, can you really polish out all the scratches made my 800,1200 wet and dry?

 

[domjolly]

im interested in this as well as my headlights are worse than yours but dont fancy sanding it down lol

 

[JD]

You can either sand then polish with a machine polisher, or you can just machine polish (the latter obviously taking much longer!)

For you boys down south;

http://www.jmstuning.co.uk/

Go to services and click on the headlight correction.

For devnet, my misses lives in Croydon, next time I am down I could bring the porter cable polisher and have a bash lol!

 

[devnet1]

cheers for the offer JD, i think i will have ago myself this weekend, but if i cant get rid of it i will message you if its alright. Is this a common problem?

 

[Ben]

Mines done the same

 

[devnet1]

I had ago at my lights today, they dont look perfect but they look alot better

 

[Rossy197]

Croydon you say JD...

Seeing some of your cleaning threads and the outcomes damn fine mate..

when your down next bring your bucke and wash mit and you can give mine the once over pmsl...

You know it makes sense

 

[st3ve]

What do you do if you don't have a machine polisher, is it possible with just sandpaper?

 

[Rossy197]

What do you do if you don't have a machine polisher, is it possible with just sandpaper?

No not really because when you sand you'll make the lense rough while sanding out the defects, You'll need a machine polisher to polish it back up to a good finish...

 

[st3ve]

Sorry I meant would it be possible to do the polishing by hand?

 

[Rossy197]

Yeah possibly but it'll take some elbow grease and plenty of it

 

[st3ve]

I've no shortage of that, what polish would I need? I've got a swirl cutter will that do?

 

[K1NGY]

I have a pair of mk2 ph2 lights like these if anyones interested PM me.