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Old 10-30-2010, 04:20 AM
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Question E53 Healight Lenses

Dose anyone know where I could pick up some E53 headlight lenses?
I need the plastic ones for 99-03,please let me know.
Mine are looking a little haggard for my liking.
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Old 10-30-2010, 09:19 AM
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Why is this your 3rd separate post on this? You received a few answers and other solutions so you wouldn't have to buy new ones.

http://www.xoutpost.com/bmw-sav-foru...ht-lenses.html

http://www.xoutpost.com/classifieds/...ht-lenses.html

Guess I woke up on the wrong side of the bed.
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Old 10-30-2010, 01:26 PM
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Sorry I forgot I posted those.
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Mine are delaminating,anyone know if i can restore my headlight with a 3M headlight resto kit?
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Old 10-31-2010, 08:26 AM
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Mine are delaminating,anyone know if i can restore my headlight with a 3M headlight resto kit?
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That product is crap!!!! Wasted my time, hours, and made it worse. Just get an electric buffer and go to town with polish rubbing compound and then wax.
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I used the meguiars kit with good results but I did wet sand the lenses first with 1000 wet dry paper. If I were to do it again I would work through the different paper grades detailed by some of the threads to prep the lens and the polish win the meguiars stuff.
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Id' like to polish mine as well and have considering getting the 3M kit. I've used my electric buffer on a few cars and got good results using scratch-remover type wax, but I've yet to try a rubbing and/or polishing compound. Hey Vin, since you've gone as far as wet sanding, what grades would you have done?
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Old 10-31-2010, 03:07 PM
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That product is crap!!!! Wasted my time, hours, and made it worse. Just get an electric buffer and go to town with polish rubbing compound and then wax.
No offense, but I've seen it go both ways...sometimes it comes down to proper use, if people are trying to rush it, etc. I know it comes with a few "harsh" pads, so I imagine that you've got sanding gouges in your headlights then? I'm still considering getting this kit, but then again it's probably nothing I couldn't figure out with just good ol' wetsanding and using my electric buffer like I have in the past.
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Buy your self a new set of aftermarket lights of an ebay and do what i did...
http://www.xoutpost.com/bmw-sav-foru...cs-inside.html
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Buy your self a new set of aftermarket lights of an ebay and do what i did...
http://www.xoutpost.com/bmw-sav-foru...cs-inside.html
I like OEM head lights.
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