Well, I bought HID retrofitted headlights a few weeks ago and i'm was not satisified with all the scartches they had.

I was told to wet sand them and they will be much better.

I started wet sanding them with 1000 grits then I did 2000 grits. They did not have 1500 grits.

Then I applied mother's plastic/head cover polish.

My results were very shitty. The headlight was very smooth but it was very foggy.

Let me make sure I have this write, for wet sanding, you get wet sanding paper and just keep on applying water to it, right?

I'll get pics asap.

TIA

 

Try using 400 grit, 600, 1000, 2000, wet sanding each time. Then use Turtle wax rubbing compound, then use the clear platic cleaner/polish, then put a good coat of wax on it, It worked absolutely great on my Dad's ES-300. It took about a hour with two people each working on one headlight. It is tedious, but the results are worth it. If you want more info go to : http://www.g2ic.com/tegtips/lighting/12.html

 

Here's some pics of what I did so far:

Below is the messed up side, or the side I tried


Here's the other side that I did not touch:


And this one is another pic of the one that I tried:


Finally, I got sick of it and decided to get a car wash :wink:

 

yeah, wetsanding is constantly keeping a flow of water to the area you are sanding as well as having the sand paper itself being wet. and turtle wax would help i think, i did this on my cf hood.
and is ur car lowered? looks high

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by teggysue &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">yeah, wetsanding is constantly keeping a flow of water to the area you are sanding as well as having the sand paper itself being wet. and turtle wax would help i think, i did this on my cf hood.
and is ur car lowered? looks high</TD></TR></TABLE>

Stock suspension owns me.

 

haha. why the F would u sand ur headlights? headlights are made of plastic, there is no way u will be able to clear that **** up. haha.

sucks for you.

all you need to do was use to plastx by meguiar or any cleaner wax / rubbing compound to clean up ur headlights.

If u find a way to actually clear that up, then let me know, cuz my headlights has some deep scratches i would like to get rid of.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by verbol axsassin &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">haha. why the F would u sand ur headlights? headlights are made of plastic, there is no way u will be able to clear that **** up. haha.

sucks for you.

all you need to do was use to plastx by meguiar or any cleaner wax / rubbing compound to clean up ur headlights.

If u find a way to actually clear that up, then let me know, cuz my headlights has some deep scratches i would like to get rid of.</TD></TR></TABLE>

Wet sanding works on headlights and tail lights. I have seen it done before.
I'm gonna spend more time doing it tomorrow.

 

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Wet sanding works on headlights and tail lights. I have seen it done before.
I'm gonna spend more time doing it tomorrow.</TD></TR></TABLE>

yupp...are those bmw x5 projectors? and use 3m rubbing compound you will not be dissapointed

 

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Yep from X5. Can't wait to get them looking better.

 

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Yep from X5. Can't wait to get them looking better. </TD></TR></TABLE>

did you happend to get them from sen?

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Undercover_Skank &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">did you happend to get them from sen?</TD></TR></TABLE>

I got them from 94integ_h22a

 

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I got them from 94integ_h22a</TD></TR></TABLE>

ohh...from ca? those look like my old retrofits that i did like a year or so ago...did both lense used to be yellow?

 

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Yep from CA to SC lol.
What do you mean, u sold yours to sen?

I bought them yellow as they appear in the pics.

 

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What do you mean, u sold yours to sen?

I bought them yellow as they appear in the pics.

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ohh...jw cause those look like my old retrofits that i did a while back...are the insides of the high been orange?

 

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Nah, it's on the outside. Do you still have yours on?

oh yah, since you had them, are they 4300k by any chance?

 

sen is one of my buddys that i sold them to...but then he got a jdm from end and he sold them to someone else. but yeah...i think those were my old retrofits that i did a while back...but then the guy painted the lense yellow


my old car with them

j/w thats all

 

just keep wetsanding w/ a about 2000 grit and add some soap to the water u use. Then get some flitz (silver tube from Ace hardware) and polish that in real good.

To me it looks like you rushed the hell out of the job and that is why it looks like ****. This stuff takes A LOT of time and patience.

 

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To me it looks like you rushed the hell out of the job and that is why it looks like ****. This stuff takes A LOT of time and patience. </TD></TR></TABLE>

YAH: shurgs:, i had to go back to school so i didn't get to finish. I'll work on it more tomorrow though.


Undercover_Skank, do you knwo the light intensity of the X5s? 4300K?

 

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all you need to do was use to plastx by meguiar or any cleaner wax / rubbing compound to clean up ur headlights.</TD></TR></TABLE>

plastx by meguiar is what i used 2 days ago and it worked, took about 10 mins of waxing on each headlight and that did the job for me.

 

Try using a nice cut/polish and rubbing compound on them. Something like 3m's

 

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YAH: shurgs:, i had to go back to school so i didn't get to finish. I'll work on it more tomorrow though.


Undercover_Skank, do you knwo the light intensity of the X5s? 4300K?</TD></TR></TABLE>

dont remember...its been a while

but anyways, when i did my retrofits after that i wetsanded with 2000 grit and then buffed it out with a buffer using 3m rubbing compound. then i waxed it with miguires polish. did the same with my tail lights, and bumper lense. they came out lookin brand new. nice retrofits you have pics of the cutoff?

 

try buffing with rubbing compound. Also, projectors doesn't look like they're aligned too well.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by calxtreme &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">try buffing with rubbing compound. Also, projectors doesn't look like they're aligned too well.</TD></TR></TABLE>

Can i try that on the one that i already attempted/started to wet sand or is that one hopeless unless i finish wet sanding it completley?

 

i really doubt you can clear-up that sand paper mark.

so this will be ur last resort.......

buy mines. Make best offer.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by verbol axsassin &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">haha. why the F would u sand ur headlights? headlights are made of plastic, there is no way u will be able to clear that **** up. haha.

sucks for you.

all you need to do was use to plastx by meguiar or any cleaner wax / rubbing compound to clean up ur headlights.

If u find a way to actually clear that up, then let me know, cuz my headlights has some deep scratches i would like to get rid of.</TD></TR></TABLE>

How else are you supposed to get the scratches out? Fill them in, you sand them down man.

And that plastX stuff only works for very minor scratches.