I have a **** ton of oxidation on my tail lights and I was wondering if there was a easy/safe why to get it off. thank you.

I did a bunch of research and couldnt find a thing.

 

search "faded headlights" or "yellow headlights" and you should get some write-ups- this will be the same procedure, and faded jdm headlights are super common.

mothers plastic polish works well for light stuff.

wet sand, polish, and clear coat will fix damn near anything.

 

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Did this, and it fixed my front corners and my front turn signals. Wet sand with 800-1000grit, start from 400 tho, to get the scuffs out, move up gradually until it's nice and smooth. Clean and clearcoat from there. They will look brand new if done right.

 

jesus! You want to go down to 400 grit on plastic?! Isn't that overkill? I've never done this before, but that just seems wrong to me...

 

I used meguiars plastic cleaner then plastic polish on my whole car (Has all JDM lighting) and it works AWESOME I have an extra CR-X tail center section that i polished some of, the difference is amazing. http://img.photobucket.com/alb...s.jpg
(I left the pic huge so you could see the detail)

Edit: Also 400 grit on plastic lights sounds a little crazy to me too.
FYI Plastic Cleaner is for scratches and oxidation and such (kinda like compound is for paint)
Pastic Polish is for buffing them up real shiny at the end (kinda like wax is for paint)

My friend didn't know this so when my he went to polish up his CTR headlights (very badly scratched got em for cheap) he got some plastic polish and it barely did anything. So, he started by wet sanding with 1500 and went to 2200, then used car buffing compound. They came out great. Personally i would go 1500 to 4000 and use plastic cleaner then plastic polish.


Modified by Bob_760 at 2:42 PM 8/31/2006

 

novus also makes a good 3-step process that is somewhere in between wet-sanding and the mothers offering in terms of aggressiveness.

 

you guys are crazy, so much overkill, i work in a body shop and all we'd do is a quick wet sand with 2000 grit sand paper and buff them up with a buffer and standard auto compound, will easily make them shine like new, don't sand with anything coarser than 1500 as you'll have trouble "melting" the scratches out, remember your dealing with plastic not clearcoat and don't try to sand any gouges or deep scratches out of your lights because they do have a protective glaze over them usually and you will burn through it and there is no way to get rid of this at that point then

 

thanks guys.....

 

u get overspray on those headlights seth? lol