3m headlight restoration kit review

[Redliner]

Hey guys, I recently cleaned my my somewhat cloudy and yellowish head lights and I loved the result, so let me review this product for the people that are wanting to have cleaner headlights.

My car lights was not that bad to begin with, its a 2001 after all. here it is before cleaning.

The product comes with the following:

x6 p500 sandpaper
x4 p800 sandpaper
x1 Trizact Disc
x1 Disc Pad Holder
x1 Soft Interface Pad
x1 Buffing Pad
x1 oz Headlight Lens Polish

All you need is a power drill (they recommend 1200-1600 rpm) and masking tape

first step I mask the area around the lights so because you dont want to sand the paint.

second step I used the p500 sand paper. hook of the disk pad holder to the drill and hook the p500 to the pad holder, and start sanding with light to medium pressure.

At first I was going "OMFG head lights are ruined and all scratched up F***......" but its okay because the end result will be amazing!

Third step use the p800, your lights will still be cloudy however but its still okay.

Forth step use the Trizact pad and thats when it started to clear...... I dont have pics for this sorry.

Fifth hook up the buffing pad and with a little polish that they give you and your lights will look like this.

Just do the same thing with all those lights and it will look like new!

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Cost: $20.00
Bought from: Local Autozone
Pro:
- Like new finish

Con:
- Need drill and tape
- takes more time and effort then other products

 

[g3teg97]

Probably best to remove the bumper, but still a very decent job. I wonder how this would work with worse condition headlights to begin with. I will probably try this out on both my sets of headlights.

 

[8urcivic]

good write up.....i would have removed the bumper.

 

[Samurai_Blue]

same, also, the blue magic works very well.

good writeup! :thumbs up:

 

[mirrorimg]

Probably best to remove the bumper, but still a very decent job. I wonder how this would work with worse condition headlights to begin with. I will probably try this out on both my sets of headlights.

I did this on my brother-in-laws dc4 headlights. He recently replaced one, but the other was in very bad shape. I didnt use this kit though. I got a pack of 800,1500, and 2000 grit sandpaper. And I just used some meguiar scratchx as my polish. The came out clear, but still yellowish. I dont think you can make them look brand new once they get that bad. The plastic starts fading and you can only clean the surface.

 

[jeepers94]

nice write-up. i wish I would have used this to clean the headlights on my sisters kia when she had it. those headlights were horrible.

 

[SpooledupRacing]

very nice writeup.. I need to do mine sometime very very soon before they get worse.

 

[99sil-teg]

very nice writeup.. I need to do mine sometime very very soon before they get worse.

Me too lol, I'll have to do it when I pull my front bumper when I'm replacing my fender.

 

[EF9Tuning]

i Just did mine with a generic microfiber polising kit i went from 2400,3400,4000,6000 then the polishing creme. My car is a 94 with the OEM lights and it looks just as good as this 3m kit