Headlight fogginess

When you find it, let me know...

What has happened is the clear 'optical' coating on the headlights has worn away from years of 'sandblasting'. I don't know how to repair it except for buffing and a good coat of wax. This works for a few weeks or a couple months, but not very well.

The coating is a two-part clear optical epoxy that is not available over-the-counter. Even if it were, you have to polish the plastic lens surface clear agian before applying.

Best bet for a more permanent fix is to try Certi-fit and see how much a replacement costs. I know for my Caravan they are $38, but those are 'old school' '94 headlights.

Perhaps (hopefully) someone will have a suggestion that works...

hachiroku wrote in news:jVNpe.2872$2H2.363@trndny08:

You can get something for this purpose:

Nah...it keeps sending me on wild goose chases...

A fine grade plastic polish should do the trick. I have a BMW with foggy headlamps. I found a replacement set on eBay that was in good shape and near my house, so I bought them. I still have my original headlamps, and came across some plastic polish about three weeks after replacing the assemblies. Since these are now spares, I decided that nothing would be lost if I messed them up, so I went at them with the polish.

I could have saved the commute and the bucks I spent going to get the second-hand headlamps. The polish cleaned the lenses up very nicely, and they remain cloud free several months later.

If you want to keep your new lenses clear, apply a polymer polish, like Nufinish, two or three time a year, WBMA. Cloudy leases are simply the result of owner neglect.

mike hunt

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