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Old Jan 25, 2002 | 04:06 PM
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i have a 93 gs 300

the headlight cover is plastic and very scratched and discolored, what can i use to buff and polish it.

i've tried the meguiars plastic care kit with no success.

any suggestions??
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Old Jan 25, 2002 | 04:40 PM
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Try the search funtion - we had a discussion about this about a week or so ago.

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Old Jan 25, 2002 | 05:21 PM
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Old Jan 25, 2002 | 07:37 PM
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i tried searching in the search field.

no results??!!

any help??
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Old Jan 25, 2002 | 11:04 PM
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just stay in the Mantainence section, go down till u see where it says Last 10 days, or 30 days, and switch it to Beginning and just flip through the pages, good post a little while ago about this like Dexter said

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Old Jan 25, 2002 | 11:55 PM
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http://groups.google.com/groups?q=He...ng-cb1.aol.com

http://groups.google.com/groups?q=He...ews.uswest.net

http://www.brickboard.com/ARCHIVES/2...20148259.shtml

or if you wanna clean up inside(I really recommend clean up outside first, if it doesn't work, try inside). try
http://www.mkiv.com/techarticles/headlights/index.html, I used the OVEN, it works , I'm not sure if it'll work for your GS.

For outside, I used 2000Grit sand paper and Novus heavy scratch remover(ordered from http://www.airsource1.com/, search for Novus Polish Sampler #s 1,2,3, good size) works good.
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Old Jan 26, 2002 | 06:22 AM
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thanks for all the help.

let me now try to browse through the maintenance pages.
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Old Jan 27, 2002 | 08:51 AM
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i looked through the forums, and some of the links (most of the links did not work though)


so what a gather is that there's no magic answer to scratched discolored plastic headlight covers???

you must use sandpaper and maybe removing the headlight to sand inside, and then buying novus, or plexus stuff that cost $20 or so???

is there any magic cleaner out there that can simply clean it off??
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Chances are if the stuff out there listed on the replies doesn't work for you, you will need a new lens. Not exactly what you may want to hear, but it replacing the lens on my SC was the only way to finally fix it after using all the "snake oils" that folks indicated would fix the problem.

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Try Zaino Z14. I used it on my lights and it tookout a lot of the haze that was on. The bottle costs about 14 dollars i think. You have to really scrub it at. Maybe even apply a couple of times, but it will take out a lot of marks.
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