Car headlights and windows play a key role in ensuring the safety of the driver and passengers. In addition to all applicable standards regarding light transmission, physical and chemical properties, there is another important circumstance. These are fines for carelessness. It is known that the law establishes the rules for using the car's light alarm and a measure of responsibility for their non-compliance. Imagine you are driving in a car in the evening with poor headlight. It doesn’t matter if the lamps are weak or the glass is dirty. Just a bad light. Any adequate driver will correctly assess this situation. Over time, a veil will overwhelm your eyes from fatigue. This can be detrimental.
To improve light transmission, polished glass headlights are used. When the car moves, its frontal part takes on the entire frontal flow of incoming air with all the impurities. Naturally, the headlights get the most. Dust, dirt, insects will certainly leave their marks on the glass. As a result, it will become clouded with interspersed dirt in the sinks. Polishing your headlights with your own hands may well protect you from many subsequent troubles.
So, during operation, the headlights acquire a not quite presentable appearance. A rhetorical question naturally arises: to change or repair? The approach to the decision should be individual. There is easy money - change. No - repair. Please note that it’s very difficult to find new optics for old foreign cars, and if you find it, you will regret it - they will break a terrible price. Exit - disassembly. Or repair. Do-it-yourself headlight polishing is a worthy replacement for the high cost of optics. To whom to entrust this procedure?
At first glance, any work is complex and difficult. But having understood the essence, self-confidence appears, which means that the fear of losing disappears. There are many recommendations for polishing glass. Shoe yourself with knowledge is not superfluous. In any case, when purchasing the necessary materials, you will consult with the seller. Tell him that polishing your headlights yourself is your life credo! Then there is a chance that he will correctly instruct you. And yet, what you need to know about headlight polishing?
Always wash before polishing! No dirt! Everything should be like in a pharmacy. The surface to be polished must be cleaned. The grain size of the abrasive (600, 1000, 2000, 4000) depends on the condition of the glass. The abrasive has a fabric base and is fastened with Velcro to the sander (you can work manually). Well, polishing paste.
Before cleaning, it is necessary to glue the mating surfaces to avoid damage to the paintwork. If desired, the headlight can be removed. Before starting work, the headlight glass must be sprinkled with water. You need to start processing with a larger abrasive (grit 1000), after - with a smaller abrasive (2000) and lower. The duration of the procedure is three to four minutes. Do-it-yourself headlights are polished by rubbing the polish onto the glass surface. This takes approximately 15-20 minutes of your time.
Thousands of small scratches remain on the headlights, which even fine sand and stones leave. Dirt easily gets into these scratches, the removal of which is a simple task for any driver. However, over time, the glass becomes cloudier and already transmits much less light, moreover, it scatters incorrectly.
As you can see, the work of imparting transparency to headlight glasses is quite up to ordinary citizens. Just think how much you can save on replacing headlights. By the way, your family will be immensely grateful to you. You do not burden yourself with the search for cheaper and better optics. Do not overpay repairmen for replacement. You don’t worry if the new headlamp will be replaced by fixtures, and in the end, polishing the headlights with your own hands is a hell of a lot of fun for the lover of his “iron horse”. This is just an opinion. The decision is yours.