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Blacksheep
06-23-2009, 11:46 PM
OK, some of you might have noticed my head lights at the Wild Wings G2G in cola a couple months back. What i think happened was when i put Zaino wax on my car, i also did my head lights, cuz i wanted them to stay nice. Well i think my HID's burned the was and caused this awful ugly has, i was not a happy camper cuz those lights were about 200 bucks, and i was not about to buy a new set with out a fight. So i got the 3M Headlight Restore kit from Auto Zone, idk how many of yall have used this kit before but damnit man does it work. Here are a couple Shots i took. The end result is..... They are still a lil cloudy some imma go back with some 1000 and wet sand again, and then polish out. But you can see the difference. Even when im not done with them, (well i am now, but i havent had a chance to snap some good pics)


Starting off...... (Pretty Nasty huh?)
http://i288.photobucket.com/albums/ll196/3black0sheep6/my%20car/DSC00212.jpg

Then tape
http://i288.photobucket.com/albums/ll196/3black0sheep6/my%20car/DSC00211.jpg

http://i288.photobucket.com/albums/ll196/3black0sheep6/my%20car/DSC00210.jpg

Now Sanding with 400
http://i288.photobucket.com/albums/ll196/3black0sheep6/my%20car/DSC00214.jpg

http://i288.photobucket.com/albums/ll196/3black0sheep6/my%20car/DSC00215.jpg

http://i288.photobucket.com/albums/ll196/3black0sheep6/my%20car/DSC00216.jpg

Now 800
http://i288.photobucket.com/albums/ll196/3black0sheep6/my%20car/DSC00220.jpg

Wet Sanding
http://i288.photobucket.com/albums/ll196/3black0sheep6/my%20car/DSC00217.jpg

http://i288.photobucket.com/albums/ll196/3black0sheep6/my%20car/DSC00218.jpg


You can already tell a difference. Like i said that was before polishing, imma try and find time tom to clean it up and take some pics of the final product, but yall get the idea, so if the polish makes my head lights haze up again, o-well i dont mind spending 20 bucks a year to save my $200 headlights

Blacksheep
06-23-2009, 11:48 PM
I wasent done wet sanding when i took the pics, the polish took away all those fine sctraches

DSTRBD
06-24-2009, 12:12 AM
Too much work...

Blacksheep
06-24-2009, 10:20 PM
I used a power drill, the sand paper was cut out into lil circles, and fit on this thing that came with the kit.

89fiveohman
06-25-2009, 10:54 PM
i used that same kit on a set of my headlights that werent quite as bad as yours but when done they looked like bran hammer new...almost!

Shibby
06-25-2009, 11:37 PM
how much for the kit...my tahoe headlights need help something bad...

Chuck.

Bizarro
06-26-2009, 12:23 AM
looks 100% better!!! :thumbsup1:

Blacksheep
06-27-2009, 06:12 PM
20 bucks, get that and a drink or something, and you get a point on your auto zone card. lol