How to refurbish car headlights, headlight refurbishment video tutorial

Since most of the car headlights are made of polycarbonate plastic, they will easily age and turn yellow after a long time of use, and the headlight lampshade will become blurred, which will reduce the brightness of the headlights, affect the lighting effect and irradiation distance, and also affect driving safety. At this point, we can refurbish, how to refurbish the car headlights? Let's take a look at it together.

Polished and refurbished

For some small scratches and cracks on car headlights, you can use fine-grained sandpaper to polish, and then polish with polishing wax, the principle is like paint polishing. The specific operations are as follows:

1. Clean the dust and dirt on the surface of the headlight;

2. Use tape to cover the area around the headlights that does not need to be refurbished;

3. Use water sandpaper for sanding;

4. Remove the powder after polishing, then dip a towel in the polishing wax, and polish it in circular motions.

This method is the most commonly used refurbishment method for auto beauty shops because it is quick and convenient, can be refurbished and repaired well, and has low cost. However, there are disadvantages. Since the lamp surface is generally made of plastic, not paint, the light transmittance will decrease when the wax component on the surface is lost.

Fumigation repair and renovation

This refurbishment repair method uses a heater, adding alcohol as a volatile agent, and then attaches the specially processed and blended raw materials to the lamp surface through the method of steam, fills in the scratches, and then polishes again to achieve the refurbishment effect . This method is actually coating, which lasts up to two years after repair.

Headlight refurbishment video tutorial(Fumigation repair and renovation)