Anybody know if this is as good as the Amazon reviews make it out to be? Amazon.com: Rain-X Headlight Restoration Kit: Automotive Or am I better buying professional headlight restoration products? This is just for me and a 2000 Maxima. I don't need perfection, just something easy to use that has little chance of me screwing it up. Thanks for your thoughts.
just use a regular compound and polish. wetsand first if it's really bad. if your lights are yellow they will turn yellow shortly after correction if you just buff and seal them. you really need to wetsand them and have a professional painter clearcoat them if you want a permanent fix.
I've seen good results from the 3M Headlight Restoration kit which uses a drill and a seres of pads to clear and fix them.
For 13 bucks it is worth a shot. I have used wetsanding and then Megs 105/205 with good results and also used a customer supplied Turtle Wax resto kit that worked very well. Amazon has it for 10 bucks and it has 297 reviews with almost 5 stars. http://www.amazon.com/Turtle-Wax-T-..._1?s=automotive&ie=UTF8&qid=1327421593&sr=1-1
I personally like the 3m kit, just because of the drill adaptor and included discs. But i bought it once and bought refill discs. I recommend to all my customers they invest in some sort of clear film after correction, because it will come back!
Opti-Coat them after the wetsanding and polishing. With the 3M kit I only used the drill for the 500 & 800 grit discs, then switch to a DA with 3" pad for the remaining sanding. Using a drill left too many tracers that are hard to remove.
