After shot of my tail



got rid of those letters that hold wax






before and after of my turn signals



before and after of my headlights



if you guys are interested in a write up let me know

 

Arlight guys.... sorry for the delay. Sleep > me.

Anyhoo heres the products you need

You Basically need two or three differnt grade compounds. I Borrowed a super duty compound, a 3m perfect-it 3000 (medium grade) and then a polish (metal polish).



next you need something to apply the compounds with. I used a makita variable speed (on the lowest speed) buffer with these pads.



super duty = white pad, the most coarse
Medium duty = black pad
polish = blue pad

next you need something to sand your plastic with.


I chose to use 2000 and 3000 grit sandpaper because i never did anything like this before and didnt really want to use to heavy sandpaper and mess something up. obviously you start with the 2000 then finish off with the 3000. The way i use the sandpaper is go one way like this ( / ) , then go like this ( \ ) so you get a nice even distributed cut like so And when you are wetsanding, make sure to dip your paper constantly into a water bucket. If you get a piece of dirt under your paper it will dig right into the plastic, and you cannot get the scratched out, so make sure you dip constantly( every 15 seconds or so). make sure your taillights are clean before sanding also. And where I removed the letters, just concentrate on that area a little more, and they will eventually come out.

after sanding, you want to dry off your plastic with a cloth to remove all water. Next you want to apply your compound evenly over the piece like so

Next step is to use the super duty with the white pad and buff the plastic. you basically do it until the compound is gone ( like removing wax when waxing a car)

then you use the next two compounds and you are done.


Note. I tried for ***** to use just the black pad and mothers "aluminum mag polish" and buffed it with just the one pad, and it looked as good as the others.


next step, look for other stuff to buff

 

goodstuff

 

 

clean yo

 

Did you do the ipod? how did that go? I wanted to do it to mine, but im afraid of messing it up. Did you use 2000-3000 for ipod also?

 

 

bling bling

 

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i used the 2000 and 3000 on the ipod. Mine was really scratched

 

Sweet, always nice to see results like that after using some elbow grease

 

Damn, that looks really good.