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| Author: | bob fisher [ Wed Feb 11, 2009 1:02 pm ] |
| Post subject: | headlights not like they used to be |
hello sages- i have a question which i dont think has been dealt with before unless i missed it. for years cars had sealed beam headlights. when one or both filaments burned out you plugged in a new one. they didnt last for the life of the vehicle so you never had to worry about the reflector box losing its ability to transmit a beam. even when they went to square sealed beams it wasnt a problem. now we have these plastic headlight boxes. in the back is a turn and pull socket with a special $$$ bulb in it. i never thought these projected the light of the old sealed beam even when new. now the problemis that the clear plastic in the front of the box, gets dull cloudy or yellowed and significantly reduces light projection. have noticed some shyster garages and clip joints generously offering to clean buff and otherwise transmogrify the faces of these boxes with a secret potion they wont show you for only $50 .despite his occassional rants poehler was right years ago when he criticized the demise of the sealed beam in favor of less effective lights for streamlining goals. bottom line, is there a special procedure or chemical cleaner one should use to correct this money suck. bet dan or di is a specialist with a silver bullet for this anomaly. thanks bob f |
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| Author: | Wesola78 [ Tue Mar 10, 2009 8:08 pm ] |
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Meguiars makes a product that might help. It comes in two bottles; one gray, and one white. One bottle is the cleaner, and the other is the polish. Kind of a labor intensive process, but I used it on my wife's PT Cruiser, and it made a difference. |
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| Author: | SlantSixDan [ Tue Mar 10, 2009 8:18 pm ] |
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Polishing is only half the answer — this is the headlamp resto kit worth getting; you really need an optically-clear topcoat after you've polished (what you're polishing off is the anti-UV/anti-scratch hardcoat…once it's thinned or gone, the deterioration comes back faster and worse). H'mmm…where'd the rest of this thread go???  Oh, here it is. Weird, how'd that happen? |
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