Really curious to see how this ends. As mentioned, my bet is they try and source a good used light; maybe even a pair if you are lucky. I'll be really surprised if they eat the cost of a brand new headlight.

I tried clear coating my headlight lens also , with the same results, the clear coat won't take to the plastic, I just sanded with 3 types of sand paper and used compound and wax to finish it off.

Best approach is to have a good detail guy polish them then apply film. My headlights on a different car were transformed to new after this was done.

Good luck OP

Thanks for chiming fellas.

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I did this on my '04 3.0 3 yrs before I sold it to my next door neighbor. They still look good after 10 years.

On my '04 4.8is, I did not need to restore them 1st so I just installed the film. That was 6 years ago and just south of 100k miles. They still look good, too.