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Old Mar 22, 2010 | 10:16 PM
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i've used this restoration kit to restore my rsx headlights and the results were amazing, besides the rock chips.
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Old Mar 22, 2010 | 10:34 PM
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Originally Posted by Fizzboy7
Out of curiousity, had you waxed your headlight lenses over the years? I have yet to have this happen to any of my cars, all of which were notorious for hazed lights.
Not really. if had my car sense new in 07 and had it waxed (not by me) about 3 times only... i did travel A LOT and been in weater from winter Wyoming to summer Phoenix.. Might be the bad water..
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Old Mar 22, 2010 | 10:37 PM
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Originally Posted by mxis350
Not really. if had my car sense new in 07 and had it waxed (not by me) about 3 times only... i did travel A LOT and been in weater from winter Wyoming to summer Phoenix.. Might be the bad water..
I hear ya. So can one prevent this from happening just by more waxing and protection from the hot sun? I'm trying to figure out what actually causes it to get so bad...
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Old Mar 22, 2010 | 10:41 PM
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Originally Posted by Fizzboy7
I hear ya. So can one prevent this from happening just by more waxing and protection from the hot sun? I'm trying to figure out what actually causes it to get so bad...
I don't really know. It just started happening here in NM.. I think it might be something at my dealer were i always get my car washed. They already had to repaint my stock brakes (or replace, im not sure what they did) because they were turning white with grime.. Albuquerque water is awful. If you boil some water until it completely evaporates you get the most nasty calcium around the pan. Also you should see the cooler units. They have so much calcium and crud in 1 summer that I installed filters for my entire house water, even the toilet water.
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Old Mar 22, 2010 | 10:42 PM
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i was always curious about that product...
good to see it actually works...
nice job!
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Old Mar 22, 2010 | 11:08 PM
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what causes it to go bad is the sunlight. the sunlight oxidizes the lens and makes its hazy. by cleaning the lense or sanding it, you effectively remove the top most layer, which is the layer that gets hit by sun and becomes oxidize. overtime, your new layer underneath will eventually get hazy too. theres really no way to stop the hazing effect, you can only slowly it down
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Old Mar 22, 2010 | 11:27 PM
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good 30 min
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Old Mar 23, 2010 | 06:31 AM
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Nice! Thanks for sharing, I was telling my mom to get this product for her 02 Highlander which has really bad hazing on the headlights Now I can show her it really works and that I do have some cred haha
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Old Mar 23, 2010 | 07:26 AM
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I have work to do this weekend
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Old Mar 23, 2010 | 07:34 AM
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Glad to see the stuff works.
I just picked some of the Meguiers headlight stuff for my cars planned on trying it this spring.

as things worked out i just swapped out 2 cars (unplanned) and will not be using it after all.
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Old Mar 23, 2010 | 08:28 AM
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WOW This was good to share. Big difference.
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Old Mar 23, 2010 | 09:50 AM
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Nice!! Thanks for sharing.. I'm going to try this out on my IS350 and my girl's car this weekend...
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Old Mar 23, 2010 | 10:08 AM
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$80 for elbow grese
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Old Mar 23, 2010 | 05:10 PM
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I JUST finished doing my headlights today, and it works GREAT!!! Thanks for posting this!!! :-)
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Old Mar 23, 2010 | 05:25 PM
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I am here to serve!!
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