Just thought I'd share my headlight correction experience.
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Another headlight restoration correction post
- Thread starter Welsh.Dan
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Wow. 
That was quick reply. Lol. Having a prob with my tapatalk so was just testing to see if I can post. Writing up post now as we speak.....
That was quick reply. Lol. Having a prob with my tapatalk so was just testing to see if I can post. Writing up post now as we speak..... My headlights were terrible and have bugged me since buying the car so finally got around to fixing it.
As you can see their awful!!
Was going to buy meguiars headlight kit but thought I'd give the wet n dry a go seen as I already had everything needed.
All done by hand. I did 1200, then 2500, then g3 scratch remover, then bit of mer polish. Took just over an hour on drivers side. Passengers side I cut down to around 45 due to time constraints.
Spent the longest time on 1200 stage.
This is after sanding. As it's still wet it looks brilliant and as good as new.....
Until you dry it off......
Big panic. Lol. Looks worse than before.... But once started to use g3 panic over.
That's after g3 and a quick polish. Very happy now. They ruined the look of the car before.
One here of top half after sanding and bottom half after sanding and g3. G3 really finishes it.
May do them again in future but for now I'm more than happy.
As you can see their awful!!
Was going to buy meguiars headlight kit but thought I'd give the wet n dry a go seen as I already had everything needed.
All done by hand. I did 1200, then 2500, then g3 scratch remover, then bit of mer polish. Took just over an hour on drivers side. Passengers side I cut down to around 45 due to time constraints.
Spent the longest time on 1200 stage.
This is after sanding. As it's still wet it looks brilliant and as good as new.....
Until you dry it off......
Big panic. Lol. Looks worse than before.... But once started to use g3 panic over.
That's after g3 and a quick polish. Very happy now. They ruined the look of the car before.
One here of top half after sanding and bottom half after sanding and g3. G3 really finishes it.
May do them again in future but for now I'm more than happy.
I really need to invest in clear indicator bulbs. Couldn't see them before so wasn't an issue!
Stefan.
ClioSport Club Member
My headlights were terrible and have bugged me since buying the car so finally got around to fixing it.
As you can see their awful!!
Was going to buy meguiars headlight kit but thought I'd give the wet n dry a go seen as I already had everything needed.
All done by hand. I did 1200, then 2500, then g3 scratch remover, then bit of mer polish. Took just over an hour on drivers side. Passengers side I cut down to around 45 due to time constraints.
Spent the longest time on 1200 stage.
This is after sanding. As it's still wet it looks brilliant and as good as new.....
Until you dry it off......
Big panic. Lol. Looks worse than before.... But once started to use g3 panic over.
That's after g3 and a quick polish. Very happy now. They ruined the look of the car before.
One here of top half after sanding and bottom half after sanding and g3. G3 really finishes it.
May do them again in future but for now I'm more than happy.
Did you use any kind of compound with the grades?
Or just wet n dry
looking to do mine soon...
No mate. Done it literally as described in the post. Just wet n dry.
Its only when you use the g3 scratch remover they actually look better! It is scary. Looks initially like you ruined your headlights. [emoji5]
Thanks mate [emoji3] Nothing too exciting in my thread.[emoji5] Will be doing a few more bits soon though to tidy it more. Would love to change the steering wheel, seats and gear shifter. [emoji106]
They came out ok and to be fair have remained good. Been around a year and 22k miles, still look well.
Was going to lacquer them as some did, but I didn't bother.
After the g3 stage I used normal polish. And have probably polished them with standard polish once since.
Think I might look into lacquering when I re-do them, was happy with the finish off the 3m kit but just hasn't seemed to lasted. If your thinking about a snappy wheel at all I would defo recommend one, got one recently and possibly my fave part of the car now haha made such a difference to the feel of the interior, my grips were shot to pieces mind you!
Try just giving them a polish, may come up again without totally 're doing them.
I have though of a snappy wheel a lot. Love the look of them... it's the size I hate though. Like a bus!
Wonder if he does a shrinking service too? [emoji14]
I have though of a snappy wheel a lot. Love the look of them... it's the size I hate though. Like a bus!
Wonder if he does a shrinking service too? [emoji14]
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