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Old 07-16-2009
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Need help with headlights

My headlights have turned yellow and I was just wondering if anybody would know and like to enlighten me on how I can clean it...

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Re: Need help with headlights

There are several post on how to wet sand your headlights back to normal, you can also get a thing called Mothers Mag & Aluminum Polish from walmart. I used it all the time on my old 97 Civic. They always turned yellow again after a few months but they look like new when you clean em. Sanding them down is the best way tho.
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Re: Need help with headlights

I've had the best luck with Meguiar's Plast-x from Wal-Mart. Its about $4-5 for the bottle and does a pretty good job at cleaning the hazy yellow film. As with other similar products, a slight yellow tint (but no haze) will come back after a few months, but its nothing that another application can't fix.

I've heard and seen pictures of amazing results from wet-sanding but haven't tried that method myself.

Good luck!
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Re: Need help with headlights

Ok.... follow this DIY

http://forums.clubrsx.com/showthread.php?t=598661
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Re: Need help with headlights

thank youuuu
I appreciate the help, I'm hitting up walmart 1st thing after work tomorrow
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maybe I'll try the sanding sometime too
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Re: Need help with headlights

i heard with the meguires' plastic-x, it will work, but eventually the yellow will come back. you'll have to wet sand the headlights to ensure the oxidation (yellowness) stays off.
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Re: Need help with headlights

I bought the plastx and ma headlights came out ok, I guess for best results I'm going to have to wetsand it but I do see an improvement
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