Posted By: Adam71Charger
semi-chrome polish on tail light lens? - 02/26/15 07:04 AM
Looking for a polish to take the haze out of tail light lens, I've used semichrome on plastic trim, will it work for lenses (red and white)?
semi-chrome polish on tail light lens?
Posted By: DAYCLONA
Re: semi-chrome polish on tail light lens? - 02/26/15 07:17 AM
Meguiars makes a plastic polish, works great on lenses for removing that "dead" hazed look
Posted By: autoxcuda
Re: semi-chrome polish on tail light lens? - 02/26/15 08:29 AM
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Looking for a polish to take the haze out of tail light lens, I've used semichrome on plastic trim, will it work for lenses (red and white)?
Yes, will work with various results depending how bad they are to start. Wenol will work about the same too. They both are sort of similar products.
Toothpaste will work too.
Also wet sanding from 600-800-1000-then fine rubbing compound and plastic polish will give really nice results. Depending on scratch depth you may need to go
Posted By: GY3
Re: semi-chrome polish on tail light lens? - 02/26/15 03:25 PM
Toothpaste or Mothers aluminum polish.
I did my gauge cluster lenses with the Mothers and they turned out crystal clear!
I did my gauge cluster lenses with the Mothers and they turned out crystal clear!
Posted By: FJR doc
Re: semi-chrome polish on tail light lens? - 02/26/15 05:41 PM
I used Mother's plastic polish for my dash lenses and my tailight lenses. Worked great! Made a huge difference.
Posted By: not_a_charger
Re: semi-chrome polish on tail light lens? - 02/26/15 08:36 PM
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Meguiars makes a plastic polish, works great on lenses for removing that "dead" hazed look
When I re-did my wagon, I had one NOS tail lamp lens that I installed. I used Meguiar's on the other lens, which was moderately hazed, and unless you look at them from about 6 inches away, you can no longer tell the difference.
Posted By: Lefty
Re: semi-chrome polish on tail light lens? - 02/26/15 11:09 PM
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Looking for a polish to take the haze out of tail light lens, I've used semichrome on plastic trim, will it work for lenses (red and white)?
Yes, but it is a single grit and may be too fine or too rough. Try it and see.
For heavy scratches use 1500 grit paper then 3000 grit paper. Then follow up with these and it'll look like new.
Cheap but good at Amazon -
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Posted By: 72N96RR
Re: semi-chrome polish on tail light lens? - 02/26/15 11:51 PM
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Looking for a polish to take the haze out of tail light lens, I've used semichrome on plastic trim, will it work for lenses (red and white)?
Yes, but it is a single grit and may be too fine or too rough. Try it and see.
For heavy scratches use 1500 grit paper then 3000 grit paper. Then follow up with these and it'll look like new.
Cheap but good at Amazon -
web page
LEFTY NAILED IT...Ived used the number 2 scratch remover on headlights as well as lenses and even gun stocks...A local plastics company highly recommends it for all plastics...It did a great job on these 1963 Dodge lenses...They look like new..
Posted By: 375inStroke
Re: semi-chrome polish on tail light lens? - 03/04/15 10:56 PM
What about something like '69 Charger lenses that have ridges, polishing them without rounding the edges off?
Posted By: RSNOMO
Re: semi-chrome polish on tail light lens? - 03/05/15 12:36 AM
Get some rouge, and a buffing wheel...
Posted By: maximus
Re: semi-chrome polish on tail light lens? - 03/05/15 12:49 AM
Been using toothpaste for the last 40 years. Any of the white paste works best, not the green gels. Once did some 71 Challenger taillight lens and the things came out brighter than new. But it does take time. Also did the ones on my 69 Charger. Just keep moistening your cotton rag (old tee shirt) when it starts dragging and drying out, it will form to grooves and edges after rubbing for awhile.
Posted By: DaveRS23
Re: semi-chrome polish on tail light lens? - 03/05/15 01:37 AM
On our late model stuff, we just use regular polish and get good results on taillites, headlites, marker lites, etc. I have tried some of the so-called plastic polishes and don't see any difference in the gloss.
If you really want the tailites to sparkle like new and to stay that way, spray them with catalized clear. We do that with headlites and taillites and they look great and the clear is much harder than the original plastic, so it resists new scratches and scuffs.
It is best to glass bead the surface so that the clear has a good textured surface to bite to. Sounds extreme, but works very well. We've done dozens, both older and newer.
If you really want the tailites to sparkle like new and to stay that way, spray them with catalized clear. We do that with headlites and taillites and they look great and the clear is much harder than the original plastic, so it resists new scratches and scuffs.
It is best to glass bead the surface so that the clear has a good textured surface to bite to. Sounds extreme, but works very well. We've done dozens, both older and newer.
Posted By: dogdays
Re: Simichrome polish on tail light lens? - 03/05/15 07:50 PM
Posted By: skicker
Re: Simichrome polish on tail light lens? - 03/05/15 08:22 PM
I've found most all of the polishes that are good for aluminum work equally as well on plastic. Choose the polish by condition of the lens.
If its in rough shape start with a more aggressive polish...then finish with something finer.
Stay away from a bench top buffer as previously suggested... 
If its in rough shape start with a more aggressive polish...then finish with something finer.
Stay away from a bench top buffer as previously suggested...
Posted By: autoxcuda
Re: Simichrome polish on tail light lens? - 03/05/15 09:21 PM
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I've found most all of the polishes that are good for aluminum work equally as well on plastic. Choose the polish by condition of the lens.
If its in rough shape start with a more aggressive polish...then finish with something finer.
I've found polished and compounds for paint work equally as well on plastic too.