tibbytib

Heres a quick and easy way to take the pits and scratches out of your stock Fog Light Lenses!

Needed:
1 Scotch-Brite Pad
1 "0000" super fine steel wool
1 bottle of Scratch Out or 3M Plastic Polish
Elbow Grease!
1 hour

You ar going to resurface the lense. To do this, you need to remove the top layer of plastic. You will start with the most coarse material and move to the liquid polish.






So.. Start with the Scotch-Brite Pad and begin sanding the Fog lense. The more you rub, the more pits and haze you will remove. The lense will become hazy, but keep at it until you see no pits and scratchs or until you get tired of rubbing. smile.gif






Once you have gotten the big pits and scratches out, move onto the steel wool. Make sure you buy "0000" Grade. Thats "4" zeros. It is the finist steel wool you can buy. Start rubbing the lense with the wool pad. Rub until the haze goes away. You will still see a bit a haze left behind, but now you should see how well you did with the Scotch-Brite Pad! If you want to, resand with the scotch pad and then re-buff with the steel wool.

Once you are satisfied with the basic resurfacing, you need to polish the lense. This is where the Scratch out will be used. I recommend Scratch Out, thats what I used. With this, a little is good, more is better! Use a cotten terry cloth or old T-Shirt. Again, the more you rub, the better it gets! It took about 4-5 applications of this stuff to get the lense polished. Here are some before and after pics of the job:

Passenger Side Before:





Passenger Side After:





Driver Side Before:





Driver Side After:




Thats about it. One word of advice: DO NOT try this on your headlights! I did and almost regreted it! The plastic used for our headlights is harder. You can get the pits and scratches out just fine with the scotch pad, but polishing took FOREVER! I had to use a dremel to try to polish the lense and it still is not perfect. I will amend this post when I figure out an easier way to resurface the headlights.

Hope you enjoy!

01tibby

great write up. adding to the DIY and listing, and to my stuff-to-do list. laugh.gif:

Agarwal

As a side note, you can polish plastic (anv even glass) headlights, but you need a rotary buffer for it to be effective and some good products.

I might do a short DIY this sping for polishing headlights.

tibbytib

Agarwal is right. There are products out there that will probably do a better job. This was just something I threw together at the last minute with supplies I found in my garage. I am happy with the results.

Agarwal- looking forward to that write up on polishing the headlamps!

tanc

Very nice write up.

REDZMAN

Good job man, thanks.

Kit-Fox

ke tintresting concept, does this work on those two little positional lights also? The ones the RD2's have between the main lamps and the foglight area? what are those lights called anyway? positional lights or s0mething?

REDZMAN

They are called Marker Lights, and yes, this should work on them.

Viper

Did you take the lights out or just leave them in the bumper eyeroll.gif

REDZMAN

Prolly took em out man, don't wanna scuff up your paint.