Toothpaste + headlights = good

[fishy]

I can't remember if it was on this board or over at legacycentral that I read about someone taking toothpaste to their fogged up headlights but I decided to try it. Sorry, no pics (I know I know) but after investing about $0.12 worth of toothpaste and about 10 minutes of my time I saw a notable improvement!
Here's my complicated method:
Step 1. blast lights with hose and wipe off loose dirt
step 2. slop on a blob of toothpaste and rub it around with a clean rag till you get sick of doing it.
step 3. rinse everything off well with the hose


I'm going to give 'er another round or two of this treatment to see how good they can get. Then maybe clearcoat the lenses or something.

[nipper]

mint or regular

nipper

there is also a 2 part kit available in auto parts stores. Dont clear coat them yet, wait a few days to make sure it solved the problem, otherwise your sealing in all the oxidation that cause the yellowing to begin with.
DO a search here lots of posts on this

nipper

[forester2002s]

Originally Posted by fishy

step 2. ... till you get sick...
step 3. rinse everything off well with the hose...

The mind boggles...

[fishy]

Originally Posted by nipper

mint or regular

nipper

there is also a 2 part kit available in auto parts stores. Dont clear coat them yet, wait a few days to make sure it solved the problem, otherwise your sealing in all the oxidation that cause the yellowing to begin with.
DO a search here lots of posts on this

nipper

Good call, I actually intend to give them another session or two before clearcoat anyway. or I might just not bother clearcoating at all.

... and it was Mint

[fishy]

Originally Posted by forester2002s

The mind boggles...

Taken out of context some of the things I say can end up pretty "funny". Taken IN context some of them are even worse sometimes!

[nipper]

dont forget to floss

nipper

[Hotshot]

Originally Posted by nipper

dont forget to floss

ROFL

Going to have to give this one a try, my headlights are looking pretty bad, and $.12 worth of toothpaste is much easier than new headlights on my wallet.

[Megell]

I have dentures. I'm gonna try soaking my lens overnight with one of those little fizzy tablets in warm water. I'll get back to you in the morning with the results.

[nipper]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA


nipper

[970subaru]

if you are lazy like me, after you have the headlights polished, rather than clearcoating just leave them bare, and every time you check your oil you can polish the headlights with the oily rag. the oil somehow leaves the headlights looking like glass if your polishing job was good.