Recent content by Ducktail

Nail-polish, acetone, or perfumers will work. Anything with alcohol or strong based acetone. Though be careful not to damage the leather.

Here in Saudi arabia, we have sun almost all year long. Even in the "winter" the cars get baked due to the lack of clouds and rain. So yes, extreme exposure to UV rays and sunlight will severely damage interior trim. Most of the cars I see will have a cracked dash, or dry cut up leather...

Ended the agony on this little plastic lens. So sad to see her go.. But eBay has been kind enough to find a replacement for her.

Whats worst than receiving advice from the best people and not applying it! So I went out to apply all these tips you guys sent me; noted my mistakes, and wrote down whats the fixes for them. Then I worked on fixing my mistakes from all the previous attempts on this new attempt. Worked on...

How should I remove the residue? I use microfiber towels religiously. Removing the polishing residue and drying the headlight after I sand.

What do you mean by that? Yes I did wetsand the inside and outside..

I definitely see swirls. And for pigtails, I can also confirm that I have a extremely fine pigtails. Do you think I how I remove the polish will affect? I mean I swipe it down with a MF towel very easily.

Sorry for the links, can't edit them. Sorry Forum! New here. I'll search on where Trizact falls into, but I do not think that these "not controlled grits" will make a difference. Do you think thats the problem with my haziness? (Uncontrolled grits?)

You have a point here, I bought the GG DA polisher as a quick tool to help me. Its not my main tool (Which I haven't bought yet). But for god's sake I've seen some people here in the forums sand them manually with their hands and still get excellent results!

I agree about this point, makes total sense. Could you please elaborate about this point? These are my sanding discs: 320- Amazon.com: 3M 30275 Hookit Purple 3" P320 Grit Clean Sanding Disc: Power & Hand Tools 500- Amazon.com: 3M 30272 Purple 3" P500 Grit Clean Sanding Hookit Disc...

No, I used 500 and finer grit in the first 3 trials. I noticed no improvement in these trials. Then, I decided to start fresh with 320 grit. So in total I used 320 grit two times in 8 attempts (2 were 320 to 3000 and 6 were 500/800 to 3000) I am using 3M 3" Sanding Discs Hookit Gold...

tl; dr version: Numerous attempts to restore clear plastic headlight lenses to like-new finish result in massive fail. About to commit suicide. So the story started when I took apart a BMW 6 series headlight that had developed a crack leading to condensation inside the headlight. The headlight...