I picked up a '96 hatch for dirt cheap, everything was mint on it mint except the damn headlights...but after some searching on Honda-Tech, found and read how some people wetsanded their headlights and got rid of some of the haze/fog. Buffing the crap outta them pretty much took me an hour alone but it was well worth it! Anyways here are the pics, before and after. (Sorry I forgot to take before pictures of the passenger side, but it gives you an idea how bad they were)




After (imageshack removed the photos so I have to upload them like this :S)

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Modified by Daddy Yankee at 5:17 PM 8/20/2005


Modified by Daddy Yankee at 5:18 PM 8/20/2005

 

wow its like night and day. what did you end up using? never-dull?

 

looks good

 

DAMN that made a big difference

 

damn g ood job!

wheres the link at? i need to do the same thing with mine!!

 

holy crap..how did you do that?

 

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lol thats tite

 

Doing little stuff like that makes makes such a HUGE difference to how the car looks, I did it to all my lights when we painted my car. Looks great man.

 

awesome job bro

 

niiiiiiiiiiiiice

 

Thank you for doing that dude. I can't stand looking at people cars with hazy frikken headlights.

 

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Never-Dull is for Metal finishes. You can use Maquires plastic polish or aircraft windshied polishing compound. Its probably the best choice for the results. In this case the wet sanding looks nice as well.

 

Nice.

 

Thanks guys!

I wetsanded the headlights using 600, 800, 1000 and 2000 grit sandpaper. Then buffed it out with Plast-X (2 coats), then 2 coats of Scratch-X, 2 coats of Professional Fine Cut Cleaner and then topped it off with NXT Wax. All the products are Meguiar's incase anybody was wondering.

 

Looks brand new

 

badass

 

Just curious, did you use a machine sander or by hand? It took me 3 hours total to buff mine by hand. lol.

 

def gotta go this to mine...looks great

 

Machine, it would have probably taken hours by hand and most likely not get the same results as a machine.

 

I was too scared to use a machine sander on my CTR's because i didnt want to burn the plastic by hitting it with something too powerful or too much rotation &lt;-- high rpms. Did you use a standard car buffing wheel or a full orbital?

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by jay-spec &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Never-Dull is for Metal finishes. You can use Maquires plastic polish or aircraft windshied polishing compound. </TD></TR></TABLE>dam i never knew that. i know there was a DIY for fixing dulled headlights and they used never dull. glad i didn't pick any up. i will have to try the plastic polish you speak of.

 

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DIY post yo.

 

PROPS...well done fella.