I got some 210+ plastic scratch remover and 210 polish from Airgate because of a thread he posted a while back in S2k talk. He did his by hand, I used the pc.

My headlight lenses were getting a very disturbing milky sandblasted effect on the upper edges and had alot of pitting. Plexus would only give me temporary results and the hazing returned within a day.

Here are a couple of before shots




Here are the shots after polishing and finishing, they cleared nicely. Took out about 90% of the hazing. I went through about 5 separate applications of product.






Here is the product




I polished using a sonus green pad and I smeared the lens with the product vs putting it on the pad...learned the hard way - lots of splattering.



I painted my calipers this week also, so here's a gratuitous shot

 

great thread!
at first i was wondering what was wrong with your lenses- looked good in the first pic...
until i saw the after pics! then i really could tell.
car looks nice!

 

Do you think this may have taken off the UV coating said to be on the lenses and therefore making them more prone for yellowing?

They look great by the way. I would love to do the same for mine but am concerned about removing the UV coating.

 

The hazing effect already made the lens a dirty yellow tinge. After polishing the pitting out, the lenses had a nice clear blue-ish hue. If there was UV protection on them, it wasn't working


Here are some side by side before/after pics to better illustrate










As I said before, Plexus was a temp fix and the hazing would come back within a day. Short of headlight replacement, this is a great solution to maintain a stunning new car look. Both bottles came up to $18. Might be hard to find, that's why I hit up Airgate.

 

I was organizing my polishes and I was reading the label on this 210plus stuff...

made especially for heavy cleaning and light scratch removal of Lexan, Lucite, Acrylite, and Plexiglass.

fyi None of my other plastic scratch removal products mentions these specifically.

 

The polymer used for making the lens cover has UV additives in it's formulation. So there is no danger of removing any coating.

 

my car has the same problem! im going to give the 210 a try

 

I used the 210+ / Sonus sfx-1 yellow pad / PC speed 6 on my clear bra and it took out the scratches and the swirls!

 

Where can you buy this 210 stuff

 

The most important piece to this procedure is the Porter Cable/Sonus SFX-1 pad combo. You can probably get away using a plastic specific polish and get the same results.

I got my 210+ from another S2ki member Airgate, so you might hit him up.