How about what a headlight restoration SHOULD look like!

O.C.Detailing said:
heh Thanks all! I did a little bit of research on the name and found that there are some folks out there with the same name, but none here in Virginia, so I went with it. There are other domain names available such as ocdetailing.net/org/etc...
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Overly Confident Detailing?
Often Cocky Detailing?
Obese Citizen Detailing?
Oily Complexion Detailing?
Obsessive Compulsive Detailing?
Orangutan Cage Detailing?
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lol O.C.D. is obsessive compulsive disorder, so yeah, just replace disorder with Detailing.

Obsessive Compulsive Detailing
 
No, he's in a different region I believe. He's OCDetails and I'm O.C.Detailing.
 
Great job on the head lights. I have got to try this for myself. Maybe I will try it on my wife's DD as a test.
 
Thanks Peanut and BMW. I appreciate the compliments. Now get out there and make some money fixing them!!
 
great job on those lights, and i agree should be an add on for every detailer

I did a friends lights on that same kind of truck and they were nasty. At the time I just used the dimondite kit and as you can imagine that wasn't enough to get a full correction and i had not delved into wet-sanding yet.

i have done several restorations using the wet-sanding process since then i am just curious about these lenses

question:
Were those lights kind of splotchy? when i did mine some of the lens polished out but other parts just wouldn't come clear as if the factory coating was still there, chewed up and foggy, but still there.
all i have now is what you used and am just wondering if i should grab some heavier sand paper before i try again.

thanks for any advice if you need some pics i can post some
 
If you look at the pictures of the lights before I fixed them, you'll see the plaque-like coating at the bottom of both of the lights. Before you polish, you need to make sure you completely remove that entire surface with your sandpaper as it will never be clear again. Once you "relevel" the top layer of the plastic lens of the headlight and get a uniform surface with no pits, scratches or defects, then that's when you start stepping down from your most aggressive paper or product and start refining the surface and prepping it for use with either your DA or rotary, whichever you're more comfortable with until you get an exceptionally clear surface.

If you look closely at my after pics, you'll see some scratches where the light reflects off of the lens that I just couldn't get out, so I tried to minimize them as best I could and then protected the surface of the light to prevent a reoccurance of the yellowing and such.

I will also, sometimes, polish out he lights a bit to see where I stand in the correction process (sanding process) to make sure I'm going to end up with a very clear surface. If it's not good enough for me, then I"ll sand it down some more and then repolish until I'm satisfied.
 
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