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This page shows how to repair a scratch on Most types of headlight lenses.

This photo shows a damaged plastic headlight lens

To repair this lens I will use 800,1500, and 2000 grit sandpaper, water, a highspeed polisher with a 3M waffle pad and 3M glaze polish.

Sand the sctatch out with the coarse sand paper first 800 grit then 1500.

Then sand out the sanding scratches by useing a 2000 grit

Sand the sctatch out with the coarse sand paper first 800 grit then 1500.

Then sand out the sanding scratches by using a 2000 grit

Sand using 2000 grit wet sandpaper

To repair this lens I will sand using 800 grit sand paper

Im using a dual action sander but it can be done by hand as well

This shows the lens sanded with 800 gritt paper

This shows the lens sanded with 1500 gritt paper

Wetsanding using 2000 gritt wetsandpaper

This stage is very important, use lots of water and sand all areas that you have sanded with the coarser grits

Now its time to polish

I will use the high speed polisher with a 3M waffle pad and the 3M Glaze

Use a high speed of aprox 1800 or 2000 rpm

Keep the pad wet with polish and have someone hold the lens still, also use safety glasses

Here is the repaired lens

saved 190$

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