3M Headlight Restoration Kits and High Volume of Vehicles

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Rodger Johnson

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I have a question about this kit:
3M Headlight Lens Restoration System, headlight polishing kit, restore yellow headlights, 3M plastic polish

I used it on my own vehicle and it worked very well.

I bought one of these kits, and eventually I am going to run out of the sandpaper included. Versus buying more paper from the manufacturer, is there a better solution for restoring headlights using a power drill (as the system suggests) for doing numerous vehicles? For example, go and buy the Hookit II products separately, in bulk, and the respective compound, and go from there? Or?
 
the system does work very well. I am not sure about the foam pads but i would certainly buy the sanding discs in 500, 800, 1000, 1500, and 3000. This way you can correct headlights no matter their condition as well as repair scratches. For the foam pad you might consider spot buffs or 3Ms scratch repair pads. 3M Perfect-It 3 Inch Foam Buffing Pads, buffing paint, buffing clear coat and 3M Perfect-It 3 Inch Ultrafine Foam Polishing Pads, 3M 05760 pads, ultrafina polishing pads, spot polish pads

you will need to check out 3m's section here 3M Automotive Appearance Car Care Products leading through innovation for over 100 years! all the sanding discs are in there.

i would get one of the better backing plates as well and maybe the foam interface pad for contoured headlights. there is a 2.75" rotary plate that you can get a drill adapter for. i think that might be better then the lame plastic ones. which i have seen break after some use.
 
I have restored several sets of headlights and honestly, I find the best way to do it is by hand. The problem is that certain headlights have very sharp corners, not all of them are nice and round like the car in the 3M video. By hand you have more control and can get in the tight corners.
 
I've tried a couple of things and what has worked best for me is wet sanding w/ Meguiar's 1500, followed by Meg's 3000, Meg's 105 on an orange pad, 205 on a white pad, topped of w/ Meguiar's PlastX. I'm not sure I had to do 105 & 205, but I had the time & thought I'd try it. I used 105 & 205 on 4" pads on an original PC.
 
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