easy no bake way to remove headlight grime.

reprobation · Post by **reprobation** » July 3rd, 2006, 12:13 am

illapino wrote:
reprobation wrote:In my opinion, NOVUS plastic cleaner still works best - i bought mine on e-bay for about 13 bucks shipped. Its a 3 step process, but the stuff looks like glass when your done:

to reprobation: did you only use novus on the exterior of the lens, not the inside?

>> yeah only the outside - on THESE lenses I have not opened. - the set of custom projectors im currently making I have - that stuff is really hard to sand down to smooth!

-Chris

illapino · Post by **illapino** » July 3rd, 2006, 1:17 am

that's pretty good then if you didn't open them
i thought most of the grime resides inside from heat-singing due to the lamp

mazdamx3sohc · Post by **mazdamx3sohc** » July 3rd, 2006, 10:23 am

mines not dirty inside

illapino · Post by **illapino** » July 4th, 2006, 2:00 am

still wish there were aftermarket halo projectors for the Precidia
no one in my city does the customizations involved to fit on those civic lights
it hurts my feelings . . .

mazdamx3sohc · Post by **mazdamx3sohc** » July 4th, 2006, 6:25 am

agreed

TREVO123 · Post by **TREVO123** » July 5th, 2006, 6:11 pm

wow,so i went out and bought some of the mothers mag and aluminum polish,and it f---in cleans my headlights pretty damn good,thanks!

mazdamx3sohc · Post by **mazdamx3sohc** » July 5th, 2006, 6:17 pm

your welcome

i wanna give this credit to Kudkudniyog hes the finder of this great product!!!

kudkudniyog · Post by **kudkudniyog** » July 6th, 2006, 10:28 am

TREVO123 wrote:wow,so i went out and bought some of the mothers mag and aluminum polish,and it f---in cleans my headlights pretty damn good,thanks!

It's not only good on headlights, it works on aluminum too....

mazdamx3sohc · Post by **mazdamx3sohc** » July 6th, 2006, 3:30 pm

illapino · Post by **illapino** » July 7th, 2006, 2:43 am

so i shouldn't just use any plain old plastic cleaner then ?

mazdamx3sohc · Post by **mazdamx3sohc** » July 7th, 2006, 6:36 am

well..mothers mag and aluminum polish is only less then 4 bucks at walmart.

kudkudniyog · Post by **kudkudniyog** » July 7th, 2006, 2:43 pm

illapino wrote:so i shouldn't just use any plain old plastic cleaner then ?

It's just a matter of preference. I you think plastic cleaner works for you, by all means use it. I just like the Mother's Al polish because:

1. It's cheap
2. It's readily available (walmart, advance auto, etc.)
3. It works well with what I want to do with it.

I've been using this product for 2 yrs now and I polished the headlights on all of our vehicles, the plactic lens on my gauge cluster, and the valve cover on my mx-3.

BTW, I got the info on this product from the Toyota Previa message board. Before using this I tried plexiglass cleaner/polish. That did not work as well as Al polish.

mazdamx3sohc · Post by **mazdamx3sohc** » July 7th, 2006, 4:54 pm

like i said its only 3 something at walmart. its starts to haze again, or at least mine is. after a couple weeks but hey a little of it goes a long way and it works for me, i give the product 4 out of 5 stars!

illapino · Post by **illapino** » July 10th, 2006, 4:19 am

i just picked up
Meguiars Plastic Cleaner
and used it.

don't listen to any of you guys with your novuses and mothers. Any plastic cleaner designed for cars will do the job just fine!!!!!!!

mazdamx3sohc · Post by **mazdamx3sohc** » July 10th, 2006, 8:25 am

the point was to give some ideas on what else we can use, cuz plastic polishes are pretty expensive and mothers is for multiple uses.