clear coat of headlights peeling

[Theory208]

Did you spray clear coat on them originally??? I need to know. And if so, how many layers did you spray? If you clear coated them, you need to get the cc off. Clear coating your head light lenses is a waste of time. Buff with meguires plastic X after you get the cc off. If you put clear coat on the lenses, you'd have to polish them anyways to clean them up every now and then. In that case you might as well buff the original plastic with the plastic polish, you gettin my drift?

 

[johnnydinh701]

i never clear coated them, its the oem clear coat that was peeling off, so i tried to fix it. and ive been trying to use the plastic X and its not working at all.

 

[Theory208]

are you using a buffer?

 

[Crono139]

are you using a buffer?

Not necessary, and it wouldn't really make a difference in the end.

I've always applied polish to my headlights by hand.

 

[Theory208]

The point of using a buffer is that, since you've wet sanded, you've gone beyond the typical wear of daily driving wear. How even the sanding is? I don't know. A buffer would make clock work of rubbing by hand, and make it more even. I don't know the rate of rpm's on a buffer, but I bet you couldn't make that many strokes in a min, nor evenly "no pun intended" Lol! Just tryin' to help ya out. Buffers aren't that expensive, and a good investment. Maybe someone could lend u one.

 

[Crono139]

The point is that applying polish by hand would at least yield some results, regardless of the time spent doing so. The sanding isn't that aggressive to begin with.

And his lack of provided information doesn't exactly help.

 

[Theory208]

What grit sand paper did you wet sand it with? Say if you originally sanded with 800 grit, go up to maybe a 1000, then 1500 etc. Until it's as fine of a grit as you can get. The surface isn't probably ready for the polish. Don't throw in the towel yet, it's completely re-conditionable

 

[johnnydinh701]

i used 1000 grit and 1500 grit. i used a buffer and after awhile i guess it started to clear up... so i guess i jsut have to give it some time...

 

[likeawp]

starting wet sanding with 1000 was too low for headlight covers.......I would have started with 2000 or even just 2500 by itself......afterward run a buffer with polish/wax on it for a very long time haha

don't worry, you can always spray a new clearcoat on it and buffer away the orange peel.........just keep buffering it now to see if the clear comes back first

 

[johnnydinh701]

what do u mean spray on a new clear coat? like use duplicolor spray can of clear coat on the headlights? because im kinda confused when everyone says spray on clear coat...