What Is Restoring Headlights, Several Ways of Headlamp Restoration

What is headlight restoring?

Until now, many people in the world know little about headlamp restoration, they just change the whole headlamp when the headlamp function is not so good.  In fact, we can regard the headlight assembly as an integral part, just like the gearbox and engine of the car, which has its own independent structure and function. Therefore, the damage of one part does not mean the whole component, which can be repaired, so we called this headlight restoring.

Restoring Headlights before and after

When our headlights are valuable, it's more economical to repair them than to replace them. As long as our headlamp is well repaired and restored, our headlamp can be the same or newer than before.

Different from other parts, restoring headlights requires care and patience. Some people often ignored this point, resulting in poor appearance after restoring. It is recommended that we leave this work to professionals. However, if you are hands on, you can restore it yourselves.

Then let’s see what kinds of headlamp can be restored?

Over the years, affected by automobile exhaust, ultraviolet rays of the sun, chemicals and other reasons, the headlamp becomes old and yellow, cracking oxidation and other phenomena, reducing the lighting performance.

In this case, there is no need to change the headlamp, three ways for restoring.

The first way, polishing

Choose the right sandpaper from 320# to 2000# according the degree of aging, polish from coarse to fine, and then use 3M mirror wax for polishing.

The advantages of this way is low cost, convenient and fast while the disadvantage is not durable, the surface of the wax loss, the lamp surface blurred again.

The secondly way, lamp renovation

Polishing the cracks with right sandpaper from 320# to 2000# according the degree of aging are polished off, and then use a special potion to fumigate on the headlamp to make it shiny as new.

The third way, replace the new lamp shell.

Replace the old lamp shell with a new one to make it look just like new.

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