Car Headlight Lens Restoration
So, I have a 2001 car with dull or cloudy headlight covers. I have seen kits for restoration for sale in auto parts stores, Walmart, and HarborFreight for $10 to $20. Basically, they give you some polishing compounds, plus a buffing pad or cloth.
I told myself that the cost of $10-20 would be cheap, compared to replacing the polycarbonate covers (in the $100!). But what kit works the best? I meant to research on the Web, but kept forgetting.
Then, one day I sat down and finally looked it up on the Web. No, you need nothing more than a piece of cloth and toothpaste. Yes, common toothpastes nearly always have a very fine polishing powder mixed in.
So, I jumped up and headed out there with my tube of toothpaste. After about 1-2 min of buffing, I rinsed off the paste, and what do you know, the cataract was mostly gone! Son of a gun!
I could have spent a few more minutes of buffing to bring it to 20/20 vision, but not being picky and having suffered the terrible look of the covers for years, that was good enough so I declared it done.
Yep, no need to spend $10, which gets this LBYM guy a couple of [-]cheap[/-] underpriced bottles of wine. My toothpaste happened to be a variety of Colgate, but there is no reason to doubt that Crest or any other brand would not work as well.