do the "headlight restoration kits" work on our trucks? i have always felt they were a bit of a scam but im curious. my turn signal lights are beautiful, like they were new, but my headlights, they are pretty yellow?. id like to save the money of buying new headlights and i like the look of the stock ones. can i restore them?

second question. i have a 10" riobi buffer at home that i have not had a chance to use yet. i got it with the intentions of brining my baby back to life. she is real fadded and has a lot of small scrathes. she hasnt really looked that great since i bought her in 2010 but i did wax is last year. the hand wax didnt have much effect but i think a buffer will. what have you guys used on your buffers in the past to really bring our your truck. its a 2000 black Scab 5.4.

thank you!

 

The only kits that might work would be the ones with sandpaper with it. 800,1500, 2000 grit wet sand paper and meguires ultimate compound works good to restore lights too.

If you go to a paint supply store or something like that they have buffing compounds to use after wet sanding that really polishes the paint and looks good. But the meguires ultimate compound might work for this too since it cuts and fills in scratches

 

Get the mothers powerball headlight restore kit best in my opinion

 

thanks for the advice, i will look into both. 2000MTZ, i really dont want to get to indepth with wetsanding and all. id like to keep it simple and idot proof, i think for the first time im going to try something like you suggested, the mequires ultimate compound.

 

600 grit sandpaper, then clear coat.

The left headlight (passenger) used to look like this:

 

when i had my stock heads i tried a lot of diff kits none of them worked, i tried the peanut butter did nothing, tried toothpaste, did nothing, even tried a very aggresive tire cleaner, it worked for a day or so, then it would haze back up. eventually i wetsanded them with 600 grit, until they were clear again (i could actually see the yellow running off the lights this way) then to seal it up were it wouldnt come back i hit it with 4 or 5 coats of clear, i ended up not having the lights but for another week after that before i got surprised with some lightning heads at christmas but last time i looked at the stock ones they still looked pretty good. they have been sitting behind my shop in the weather for almost a year now

 

Blue02, I have the same model civic and same problem as well.

not being much of a painter, would you dare use the rattlecan clear coat?

 

i used rattle can clear on my old lights and it turned out fine

 

When you restore your headlight, it takes off the thin layer of clear coat and they get fogged up even quicker. For the long run your better off investing in new headlights all together.

 

i used the mothers power ball on the left one.