FOglights, and glass polishing

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[Dirty Rockstar]

Well, my trip to the UPull was cut drastically short because the ONLY car with the OBD2 harness had all it's plugs cut.. WTF MAN!!? There was a 95 RIGHT behind it!!!

Anyway, back on track.. I DID get a set of UNBROKEN :shock:  :shock:  :shock:  :shock: sedan fog lights.. They look alright, but I am wondering what I can do to polish the glass and clean them up.. THey look a bit hazy..

Also, since Im not installing these right away, what can I do for bulbs? They are 895 IIRC bulbs, and I think they'll LOOK okay, ut I want ot SEE okay at night and during low visibility times.. Without buying a set of shitty aftermarket light sets, what can I do to put a set of bright bulbs in those lenses?

I'll post pics later on.. I am going to take the wife to work, then finish the console project, post pics and a poll..

[Dstanic]

Are you sure they are glass, and not plastic?  Anyhow, I use rubbing compound followed by a finer polish (with rotary buffer) on headlights and tail lights and it works pretty good.  I suppose you could wetsand them with 1500 then 2000 followed by the rubbing compound if you really want to get into it.

[AWeb80]

I recommend the meguires Plastic Polish...I love that stuff.

[DiscoStudd]

I saw on "Two Guys Garage" last week that toothpaste works great to restore hazy headlight lenses.  Those 2 old coots that host the show got the tip from a viewer.  They rubbed some toothpaste onto a Turd Escort's crummy yellow headlights with a shop rag, then buffed it out with a clean rag.  They just about shit themselves when they discovered that the shit actually worked!  

They didn't reveal the brand they used, but it was a white paste (not a gel.)  If I had to guess I'd say it was Pepsodent...

[Dirty Rockstar]

ALrighty, so I went ahead and picked up some Meguiar's plastx polish.. The directions say to use a terry towel, but can I apply some, and use a polishing head on my dremmel? Would this damage my lenses? Becasue if so, Im not interested, and will use the towel.. I just want it to be clean and look as new as possible..

..Also, anyone know if I can put brighter lights in the foglights?

[LownSlow]

if you have 881 fogs (27W), you can get 50W ones (885 iirc) from just about any parts store

[pat]

steve i bet you'll put mad swirl marks in it with a dremel.

i need to get some of that,  i restored the cluster in my dually but have some stubborn scratching/rub marks where my cel phone sits and rubs.

[Dstanic]

Some of the headlights I go over with rubbing compound and a wool pad using a rotary buffer, and sometimes I have to repeat several times until the headlights are not yellow anymore.  I've never tried the Plastx stuff I'm just wondering if it's aggressive enough.

And yes I think a dremel might spin at a bit too high RPM  LOL

[AWeb80]

Plastix isn't aggresive....I just use a paper towel....works great....and Pat, you may need to wetsand @ ~1000 grit and work up to 2500 and then polish to get that out....


....just a FYI.

[SofaKingWeToddDid]

i agree with the pastic polish method, theres a few brands, but a moist sponge wrapped in a T-Shirt works great too, then another dry tshirt to clean up the mess after is a cheap way to go about doin it, we all have those tshirts kickin arround from beer cases, now we have uses for them. but if they're glass. then theres no hope. you might as well get a brand new set, or find aftermarket ones that dont look soo bad, i still suggest gettin european-marketed fog lights... they seem to work better... well function better. even from the bone-yard off of a audi of volvo or something.... nice-n-wide nice-n-low.... if the lights are out of the car, theres another answer too. anyone here work with acrylic plastic in shop class? remember the buffer wheel and the blox of wax? well it works for lights too if youre careful... no worse than a power polisher though... but ya still need to sand, i dont think i would waste the time starting with 1000 though, just start with 1500, then 2000 and polish from there... it should be good, if you REALLY wanna some 2500 wouldnt kill. but i wouldnt call it important.