As you can see from the pics one of the headlight is still hazey. What I used is 600 grit then 1500 grit. I then used 3M rubbing compound. Which did take out most of the initial haze but is not crystal clear. I even tried scratch X, Mothers metal polish, Novus step 2. Now should I even try to buy Mothers Plastix? I don't want to waste more money. The first headlight was original clear so I left it alone, but the other one needed more attention.
Nice and crystal clear

Haze vill

 

I would go over it with something finner like 2000 or 3000 grit. Try that and then buff it again.

 

I am having the exact same problem, but i only used 1500 than meguirs plastx and i tried buffing it till my hand felt like it would fall off but still no luck.

 

1st off- 600 grit is too low a grit to start off with for polishing plastic. 2nd if you start with 600 you should go to around 800 and then to 1000 and sand and sand and sand and when you think you've sanded enough, sand some more. Then go to 1500 and repeat what was done with the 1000. Then goto 2000 and sand some more. Then use an electric buffer/ polisher and a heavy grit polish. then a medium grit polish, then a good wax. If it still looks hazy then repreat the process starting with 1000 grit. If everything is done correctly the first time, they should look like glass, but if they don't, try using a q-tip or something and make sure there's not a film or water inside the headlight. 1 thing to remeber, polishing anything takes a whole lot of patience, so be ready to spend some time doing it right the first time. Another thing to remember, when anything is polished, it is done in steps. No steps can be skipped.

 

I know that if I did skip some steps it would take longer to do. And I have no problem with that but after much time sanding and polishing the results are the same. I am using a buffer to save my hand from falling off. When I did sand I did make sure it was smooth and even.

 

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Incorrect, technically, if you skipped a step, you can't make it up somewhere else without a whole, let me re-emphasize, a whole whole lot more time, and a lot more paper. In order to make the jump from 600 to 1500, you'd have to get a new piece of sand paper every couple of minutes because 1500 grit sand paper looses it's grit very quickly. 600 grit scratches are reasonably deep espescially when you're trying to make something look like glass without the use of a clear coat, etc. So trying to smooth out deep 600 grit scratches with very fine 1500 grit sandpaper is almost impossible.

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What kind of polishes are you using? like a stated before are you using a heavy grit polish to start? or are you only using a meduim grit? This has to be done in steps. heavy, medium, wax.

 

Yea I would have done 1000, 1200, 1500, then 2000, and finished it up with rubbing compound and then a plastic polish...i dunno about using 600 on plastic, especially clear...

 

Yeah i did my friends prelude headlight and it looks freakin awesome but i tried doin mine and it's still yellow as ****

 

i just polished my headlight last week and it came out pretty clean....i used 600, 1000 than finally i used 2000 to send out all the crap. after sending out i used mother plastic polishing