Headlights cloudy inside (replacement)

[Stash]

That picture makes them look much better than they are, head-on it looks worse, it looks like the power of the lights has somehow scorched the lens, im sure its on the inside, im thinking of letting it get a little worse & then doing the lens replacement for £140

[mr_robot]

This is how bad my drivers side is even after sanding and polishing.




With the lights off:



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[Stash]

Do you think its on the inside ? i'm sure mine is, it sort of mirror's the beam of the lights.

[byM5]

That's why I bought lenses to replace.
Used headlights have same problem

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[Stash]

any drama replacing them ? i've seen video's on youtube, looks easy enough.

[byM5]

not as easy. It's just tedious because you can cut stuff up and screw it up.

[5Xtheproblems]

Not super easy to replace. Getting the headlights out is a challenge, and then removing the lens is tedious. The results are worth the effort though.

[mr_robot]

So turns out what I had on my drivers side headlights was crazing. I didn’t sand it down enough and the original clear coat was failing.

So I went down to 240 all the way to 5000 grit and finished it off with plastiX:



I’ll be coating it with meguiars headlight spray.


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[Stash]

Nice, hell of an improvement ! could you feel anything on the outside ? mine look to me as if the bulb is somehow scorching the inside, but I used to have a Volvo XC90 that i though was marked on the inside, sanded it anyway & it came up perfect.

[mr_robot]

No I thought mine was from the inside as well because you couldn’t feel with the hand either. Thought they were stress cracks.

Mine took more aggressiveness grits due to the fact I had clear coated it from my previous attempt and was hard getting all that off first.

I initially tried with 600 grit but wasn’t getting anywhere and kept going down until I noticed the crazing was almost completely gone.


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