I was thinking about diluting some lacquer thinner in a little water to make it a little less aggressive and rubbing lightly the outside of my headlights where the clear coat is peeling to try and take it all the way off. What do you guys think? Any other solutions??

bumppp

 

I'm pretty sure water and lacquer thinner do not mix.

 

Oh well I'd try to find a less aggressive lacquer thinner then.

Anyone else?

 

i belive you can wet sand and polish them up again. but dont qoute me on that.

 

sounds to me like you may have to wet sand them and have someone (or you if capable) clear coat them again

you could try a wet sand of 2000 or 3000 grit sand paper and buff them out with polishing compound

 

mine did the same wet sand (1500-2500) make sure ALL existing clear is gone. you can buy clear in a spray can be carefull clear in a can runs easy

 

Is it a must to re clear it? Or can you do like that other person said and just buff it with polishing compound?

 

wet sand from 1000 progressivly up to 3000 grit then use something like Megiurs PlastX then buff/compound etc

 

Try using some Meguiars plastic-X polish and see if it does anything.

 

My gen1 where peeling so when I had my car buffed and waxed. I got the lens buffed and waxed too and it smoothed out the peeling now you can barley even see it!

Before pic of the peeling

look at the LEDs you can see the plastic peeling.

Buffed and waxed lens:

other lens

just buff and wax your lens.

P.S. I got new tires so don't say anything about my tires lol!!

Here both lens but hard to see with the reflections:

 

you can buff but within the year they will yellow up from uv rays thats why clear is used in the first place. clear protects from uv rays

 

Just use a buffer and some coumpound and buff it off. Either way they will need to be buffed. Thinner and water wont mix but acetone and water will. then i would reclear em

 

2x^^ Take look at my buffed and waxed lens and take a look at the before and after pics I posted on this forum

by then it time for an upgrade to a diff gen If my lights did that I would just replace them with gen2 I love the CFF halos and style better then the gen1. Even thou gen2 has issues (burnt out Halos ect).

 

liljone, so they just buffed the lights with polishing compounds, or what?

 

no ideal. I'm not the one that did it. I got the whole car done, whatever they used on the car they used on the lens.

 

wow. you really really needed new tires

 

yup lol finally got new ones.

 

You can buff the lights with the compound used for the paint... both will work. I used it on my tails when some ******* took a key to them.

 

http://www.headlightarmor.com/05-09-...ction-kit.aspx

I have the 35% tint on mine, but they come in clear as well. I love them, they look very good, not cheap at all. Definitely a good way to fix the peeling, and protect your lights in the future.