how do i get rid of glaze in my headlights?

Question

after a few years composite headlight lenses start to glaze over and make a car look horrible and also diminish lighting at night. i always wondered how to get rid of the glaze to make the lense crystal clear again or it it was even possible

Answer 1

Clean your lens with an all purpose cleaner and dry. Get some mothers metal polish and a little elbow grease and it will clear them up

Answer 2

I don't know what you can do to get rid of the glaze. But most likely it comes from condensation inside your headlight. If you get new headlights. Drill a very small hole in the bottom most part of the headlight lens. This will allow the moisture to drain out.

Answer 3

this would be a extremely straightforward restoration while your headlights are no longer air tight, cracked, no longer thoroughly sealed, etc... it we could air get in and because your the right age to stress you probable understand what water vapor is, nicely that gets in area the headlights and varieties a amassing of water on the plastic that protects the bulb my wager is that in case you will detect the open crack or hollow in the protector plastic then you definitely can patch it up, yet do no longer try this until eventually you have opened it up and whipped out all the water solid success, MT

Answer 4

Glass or Poly Carb.? You can purchase kits with the need polishing creams to buff the pits out of them, then buff them to like new clarity. I just finished polishing the glass in my neighbors 65 Mustang. It is all the original glass and he didn't want to replace it. Looking through his windshield was like looking through Frosted Glass. It looks like new glass now.

I bought the kit at the auto parts store.

You can pay for a for it to be done by a good body or glass shop.

Answer 5

You just need to polish off the oxidation, you can do it by hand or use a drill motor and buffing pad or use a regular buffer, just be sure to use a fine polish and mask off the painted part of you car that you might hit with the buffer, usually 2 inch masking tape will mask off enough area that you don't have to worry about your paint job.

Answer 6

automotive glassing compound get it at auto pant store use a high speed buffer. but it is only a temp fix

Answer 7

you can use fine grit wet sand paper. or they sell a kit to unhaze your headlights at auto zone

Answer 8

Get new headlights?

Or perhaps apply some solvent.

Answer 9

buy new headlights cause your gaskets are probably shot