Cleaning Headlight Cover

[Geoffury Find all posts View Profile Close Geoffury]

My 2012 Prado headlight factory cover is suffering from sun fade across the top of it.





There are a few repair kits on the market, has anyone tried any?
Do any of them actually work?

[fido666 Banned Find all posts View Profile Close fido666]

Toothpaste makes a good polish. There's been a few posts on here about headlight polishing, just do a Google search with "siteradopoint.com" at the end of the search criteria.

[Geoffury Find all posts View Profile Close Geoffury]

Hey fido,

I searched but I used cleaning not polishing :-)
Thanks for that.

Admin, kill this thread

[fido666 Banned Find all posts View Profile Close fido666]

All good, hope you find the right product. My comment about toothpaste was not in jest, it does work.

[Colmano Junior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Colmano]

My 2012 Prado headlight factory cover is suffering from sun fade across the top of it.

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There are a few repair kits on the market, has anyone tried any?
Do any of them actually work?

How'd you go ??? - Mines the same and was only looking at it this morning....

[ScottT Lurker Find all posts View Profile Close ScottT]

My 2012 Prado headlight factory cover is suffering from sun fade across the top of it.

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There are a few repair kits on the market, has anyone tried any?
Do any of them actually work?

Try a product called Plastix, works a treat. The same company makes a kit for restoring head lights

Cheers

[Geoffury Find all posts View Profile Close Geoffury]

Saw that Supercheap had 20% off today so went and purchased some Meguiar's Headlight Lens Correction



Will see how it goes tomorrow and report back

[Colmano Junior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Colmano]

Saw that Supercheap had 20% off today so went and purchased some Meguiar's Headlight Lens Correction

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Will see how it goes tomorrow and report back

The anticipation is killing me

[madmax1982 Junior Member Find all posts View Profile Close madmax1982]

Mine is starting fading the same, at top of headlight, at home and work is parked inside the building,

[chappy Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close chappy]

I've used Brasso in the past as the head lights were heavily mud stained-work ute.

[Grumpy Junior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Grumpy]

Saw that Supercheap had 20% off today so went and purchased some Meguiar's Headlight Lens Correction

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Will see how it goes tomorrow and report back

I've used this before on other vehicles, works great. I currently use this on the Prado as a preventative.

[Geoffury Find all posts View Profile Close Geoffury]

So I used the Meguiar's product today on both my Prado and the wife's Suzuki.

This is what you get in the kit


I wet the sandpaper pads in some water, and cleaned the headlight cover of the usual dirt.
Then used the 4 sandpaper pads, (the 3rd & 4th fine cut are on the one pad, different each side)
Starting with no. 1 - coarse, working the headlight cover left and right and then up and down.
After 2 mins going each way, the sun fading was gone, but there was the scratches from the sand paper.



Then I used pads 2, 3 & 4
By the finish of no. 4, the scratches were almost gone.

From there I used the Plastx which is a fine cutting liquid, with the Orange microfibre cloth.
Rubbing in circular patterns, I worked the plastic and removed all the scratches,
it was back to like when I drove it out of the dealership.
It took around 20 mins per headlight to get to this point.



From there I used the Headlight Protectant paste.
I wiped this over the entire lens, it left I light smear, which was then wiped off with a terry towel clothe.
The lens comes up looking this.



All in all happy with the result.
They have come up nice and clean, and now have a new UV protectant coating.
In future, I would just purchase seperate bottles of the Plastx and the UV Protectant.
They were on the shelf next to this product, for $20 per bottle, 200ml I think.

I say this, as I then went to work on the wife's Suzuki, but didn't use the sandpaper pads.
I just started with the cutting liquid. The lens on her car were much worse than the Prado,
And was starting to turning yellow.

The lens on the Suzuki came up just as good as the Prados.
Took the Suzuki for a drive tonight and took notice the light was clearer.

I will be purchasing the UV Protectant and reapplying it each 6 months or so.

I'm in no way associated with this product or paid for this review.

[Auscanclan Member Find all posts View Profile Close Auscanclan]

Geoffury,

Thank you for being the test subject and I will use your experience to do mine. I have the 120 and my headlight do need to polish.

Pierre

[Hollywood Member Find all posts View Profile Close Hollywood]

I just used a light cut and polish compound and it worked a treat on my 150 series. In fact when I looked at buying a dedicated product from Repco the guy suggested I just use cut & polish, does the same job for half the cost!