Fog light restoration?
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Fog light restoration?
Has anyone had any luck in restoring the glass fog light lens? I see I am not the only one with pitted lens on the glass fog lights. I would like to get mine back in shape without spending $400 bucks.
What about this?
James
What about this?
James
Last edited by James1549; Aug 15, 2018 at 10:20 PM.
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Re: Fog light restoration?
Car-Part.com--Used Auto Parts Market used foglamps
polish out glass scratches
I removed and cleaned the inside of my foglamps this removed that hazy film and they look a lot better. I haven't tried to polish out the scratches hope the video helps. car-parts .com prices are reasonable, I have used them on other parts
I removed and cleaned the inside of my foglamps this removed that hazy film and they look a lot better. I haven't tried to polish out the scratches hope the video helps. car-parts .com prices are reasonable, I have used them on other parts
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Re: Fog light restoration?
I used the 3M kit for this. Bought it from the local auto parts store. It worked fantastic. All you need is a drill motor.
Meguires has a kit as well
Warning, you must tape off the area around the lens, or risk damaging your paint.
Meguires has a kit as well
Warning, you must tape off the area around the lens, or risk damaging your paint.
Last edited by David M; Aug 16, 2018 at 11:53 AM.
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Re: Fog light restoration?
I believe so, James1549 tried to polish the glass some time back, but removing a couple of thou of glass takes some doing. Probably need a diamond wheel of some kind to do it, getting finer and finer until it was polished again.
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I had bought a fog light from eBay really cheap and it was terribly pitted.
I got some glass polishing stuff from Amazon that was advertised to fix pitted windshields.
2 hours later and almost burning out my drill, I had hardly made a difference.
I sold the light as-is.
I got some glass polishing stuff from Amazon that was advertised to fix pitted windshields.
2 hours later and almost burning out my drill, I had hardly made a difference.
I sold the light as-is.
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I had bought a fog light from eBay really cheap and it was terribly pitted.
I got some glass polishing stuff from Amazon that was advertised to fix pitted windshields.
2 hours later and almost burning out my drill, I had hardly made a difference.
I sold the light as-is.
I got some glass polishing stuff from Amazon that was advertised to fix pitted windshields.
2 hours later and almost burning out my drill, I had hardly made a difference.
I sold the light as-is.
You guys must enter the Baja desert race.
Last edited by onehundred80; Aug 17, 2018 at 08:29 AM.
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My mistake. Glass is a pretty hard substance compared to plastic. The only thing I can think that might work is a clear (two part) LPU paint. Basically the same clear coat paint you find over the base coat paint on your car.
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Get a spare set while you can.
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