Polished glass headlights with their own hands

Over time, glass lamps are becoming less transparent. This is due to the buildup of dirt and sand on the lights while driving. Extremely difficult to clean the glass headlights on a dirty film formed under the influence of engine oil, exhaust fumes of other cars. In such a case will help polish headlights that can be done by hand. But there are some subtleties that can not be used to clean the headlights at random chosen agent, or taking that first caught my hands. In doing so, you are risking to scratch lights or make them more cloudy. In addition, polishing glass lights, you must be very careful. The cost of glass lamps may be very high, the process of grinding a complex and time consuming, treating them carelessly, you risk getting cracks. Polishing consists of several stages: by means of grinding remove chips and scratches polish headlights special polishing paste, remove from the surface chipped and scratched. When polishing is applied Grinder, can be sanded and hand. When choosing sandpaper or grinding wheel, pay attention to their grain, as well as the extent of damage to the headlights. Desirable to use a waterproof range, or sandpaper. Lights must be polished extremely abrasive paste, the abrasive powder, which has properties similar to soft finishing cloth. It should be noted that the hand polishing machine is somewhat more complicated, but its results are not worse, although the polishing machine, of course, greatly facilitates the task. Please note that the polishing process involves the installation of a small speed on the polishing machine. It is important that lamp does not overheat! During polishing headlights for the first time, the main thing is not to hurry. There's nothing complicated, most importantly patience. So, for polishing headlights must be purchased abrasive Abralon. The basis of this material is fabric on the foam substrate. Will be needed and finishing polish PlactX. Buy and tape to protect adjacent surfaces. Wash lights, cover with tape-to-bumper all the surrounding areas. Disassemble easily removable parts: turn signals, grille. For the primary polishing headlights recommended Abralon-600. Before you begin, necessarily dampen circles - they earn more effectively, and dirt at the same time stay inside. On the grind grinder it will take about two to three minutes. Then rinse with water and spotlight grind it around with grit 1000 units. Next, use Abralon-2000 and 4000. To carry out grinding at each stage takes no more than three minutes. When you have finished grinding and polishing, you'll see that your headlights will be almost transparent. Wash and wipe lamp, leaving a little moisture on the surface, apply the composition PlactX and finally polish the surface with a soft foam rubber disk. On the whole polishing you spent about 20 minutes. If you're working by hand, time to grind will take a few more. The result is usually visible to the naked eye. In carrying out precise measurements revealed that the correct polishing glass lamps increases their light transmission up to 70-80%!