Best way to restore taillight lenses.

Posted By: Baller

Best way to restore taillight lenses. - 05/18/13 08:52 PM

What is the best way to remove haze from the red plastic lenses? Tried the search function on this site with no results and I would rather hear from someone on this site rather than some google search result. Thanks.

Posted By: RSNOMO

Re: Best way to restore taillight lenses. - 05/18/13 09:00 PM

Did mine with a buffing wheel, and compound I believe I got from Eastwood...

Posted By: 1_WILD_RT

Re: Best way to restore taillight lenses. - 05/18/13 10:18 PM

Mothers Mag & Aluminum Polish...

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Posted By: Baller

Re: Best way to restore taillight lenses. - 05/18/13 10:30 PM

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Mothers Mag & Aluminum Polish...

Wow, looks awesome. Never used that stuff before. What was your application to get these results?

Posted By: DaveRS23

Re: Best way to restore taillight lenses. - 05/19/13 03:35 AM

You can also glass bead them and have them clear coated.

Posted By: 1_WILD_RT

Re: Best way to restore taillight lenses. - 05/19/13 04:16 AM

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Mothers Mag & Aluminum Polish...

Wow, looks awesome. Never used that stuff before. What was your application to get these results?

You can get allot of improvement just by rubbing the Mothers on the lenses with a soft cloth but I was dealing with some pretty serious scratches so I actually sanded the lenses with 800 grit then polished with Mothers & a buffer....

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Posted By: 1_WILD_RT

Re: Best way to restore taillight lenses. - 05/19/13 04:17 AM

And.. If Domingo happens to chime in he really did an outstanding job on some 70 Challenger lenses... They look better than NOS...

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Posted By: Anonymous

Re: Best way to restore taillight lenses. - 05/19/13 01:18 PM

What did you do about the area that has the raise letters/numbers?

Posted By: 1_WILD_RT

Re: Best way to restore taillight lenses. - 05/19/13 04:08 PM

You avoid sanding there & polish it with the Mothers as best you can....

Posted By: a12rag

Re: Best way to restore taillight lenses. - 05/21/13 03:39 PM

Other route is Mcguires Plastic Cleaner and then Polish. It works great and is made for this !!!

Posted By: 5wndwcpe

Re: Best way to restore taillight lenses. - 05/22/13 02:35 AM

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What did you do about the area that has the raise letters/numbers?

If it's not a points car you can just sand them off and be done with it.

Posted By: 1_WILD_RT

Re: Best way to restore taillight lenses. - 05/22/13 02:37 AM

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Other route is Mcguires Plastic Cleaner and then Polish. It works great and is made for this !!!

Meguiars has allot of decent products, their Plastic Cleaner #17 & Polish #18 aren't among them...

Posted By: Baller

Re: Best way to restore taillight lenses. - 06/03/13 02:45 AM

The Mothers worked great. Even used it on the reverse lenses which were heavily oxidized and coated in black soot. Did it all by hand as the lenses were not too badly scratched. Thanks again Randy.