There are a few things you need to do to prepare the headlight assembly for the restoration process. First, you should clean off the headlights a bit. This isn’t when you use the cleaning compounds in the kit, instead, just wipe off any dirt or grime that’s settled on the headlight.

Headlights dull over time because the protective coating fails, like our clear coat that covers our car’s base paint fails. As the lens starts to get cloudy or even yellow, the light behind it becomes less and less visible. Having aged headlights doesn’t only make the car look bad, it makes it more dangerous to drive at night. Headlight restoration kits have been on the market for decades, but they aren’t necessarily the solution to this problem, in fact, you have to start by establishing how damaged your headlights are. A headlight shows damage where a jumper cable that was incorrectly attached, melted and burned a whole through the lens | HJ Pizarro Repairing your headlights data-src="https://cdn.media.amplience.net/i/washford/haluk-car-cleaning-spot1-step3-process-winter21-1382x867" Firstly, if your headlights are good, never use a solvent or abrasive on them or you’ll remove the protective factory coating and find yourself looking at these kinds of videos. This includes bug spray, other oils, toothpaste, cutting/buffing polish, etc. You see them advertised all over the place, but headlight restoration kits are just a bandaid for a bigger problem. We don’t often consider how headlights are a crucial safety element to our car, and as they dull over time, this increases our risk of a crash because it decreases our visibility at night. Unfortunately for us, all of the headlight restoration kits you see out there really won’t fix the problem. Why our headlights turn yellow In our experience, some makes and models seem to be more susceptible than others, depending on the size, angle, and composition of the lens, and whether the car is garaged or spends its life on the street. The effects can vary from just a slight haze to making lenses virtually opaque.The Scam Detector's VLDTR® finds restowipe.com having a low authoritative rank of 21.90. This means that the business is characterized as Suspicious. Unsafe. Doubtful. If you don't have or want to use a cordless drill, the Cerakote Ceramic Headlight Restoration Kit is the best headlight kit of the two I tried. It was easier to apply than the Rust-oleum kit and there was no question of which product to use at what step.

I’m just gonna lay plastic over the top of these headlights and then I’m going to take a razor blade and I’m gonna cut on top of the tape that way you don’t cut into the paint. Once we get around the headlight cutout I’m just going to take more masking tape and take the plastic down Sanding The Headlights With SandpaperUsing Restowipe turned out to be a surprisingly simple process that I could complete without much hassle. Here’s a step-by-step guide based on my own experience: Step 1: Gathering the Materials If the factory protectant layer is still intact I would just recommend a light polish with a 3000 grit sandpaper and a light compound I like to use from 3m If you use the 3000 grit long enough, it actually makes for less work when it comes to buffing them out. Second, a second coat gives your headlights an additional layer of UV protection. This additional layer of protection will help delay the onset of new oxidation, and this will keep your headlights looking new longer.