polishing rear light cluster

[gooseman949]

my rear light cluster is beginning to look a little jaded considering the age of the car. Does anyone have any tips or suggestions how i can make it look a little better ie polishing compounds etc. Thanks

[craig]

T-cut and autoglym polish

[jasongtr]

g3 cutting compound and then autoglim SRP works well for me

[g.lewarne]

i used some oven / hob cleaner on mine followed by autoglym glass polish then a coat of wax. turned out like new

[monkeymax]

Toothpaste. I kid you not. Not gel but the actual paste - ideally with some of the small particle bits in it.
Works wonders. Quicker than T-cut, plus leaves your lights smelling minty fresh!! I then follow this up with a quick wipe of plastic polish then wax, but really a couple of applications of cheap toothpaste rubbed on then wiped off works well!

[Torero]

Toothpaste. I kid you not. Not gel but the actual paste - ideally with some of the small particle bits in it.
Works wonders. Quicker than T-cut, plus leaves your lights smelling minty fresh!! I then follow this up with a quick wipe of plastic polish then wax, but really a couple of applications of cheap toothpaste rubbed on then wiped off works well!

Did they come up Ultrabright???

[monkeymax]

Did they come up Ultrabright???

LOL! Looking at the tube I used over the weekend, that's exactly the brand on the tube!!

[Torero]

LOL! Looking at the tube I used over the weekend, that's exactly the brand on the tube!!

Haha, thata's a result, Max.

As I understand , toothpaste has some very fine abrasive particles suspended in the paste which have to be very fine so as not to remove the enamel from your teeth. Makes sense that the same particles would remove the clouding from the lenses in the same way a fine grade sandpaper would.

I'll give it a try on mine the weekend, gives me somthing to get my teeth into.

[fearless]

dont knock the toothpaste bloody good on cleaning gold and wicked on crusty spots as it drys them out, picked up second tip from a female friend i was dubious about putting toothpaste on my face but results were amasing over night, ive used t cut and autoglym polish brought mine up a treat.

[LuizeGT]

i used cutting compound lightly then polished up with autoglym ultra deep shine then seal with some wax and bling bling!! that was 4 months ago and still look the same

[Harold]

Hmm, some good tips in here, my lights are a bit cloudy also.

[BrummieJDM]

I did mine with cutting paste and a G220


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[Harold]

I did mine with cutting paste and a G220


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Wow that is quite the difference! All the more encouragement to get mine sorted.

[gooseman949]

thanks for the advise folks going to give it a bash in the next few days and post some results.

[riot68]

think i'll be giving this a go too, certainly seems to have a dramatic effect, cheers for the tips, have some 3M fine finishing compound, might try that... J.

[JDM-MAT]

awesome im gona have a go at this

[Torero]

I did mine last week with toothpaste and then a silicone spray. It took all the surface clouding off and came up shining. A week later, it still looks good.

Thanks for the tip guys

[Leon.]

Toothpaste is effectively abrasive polish, so are cleaners like Cif etc. Polishes all have particles in them, T-cut is a corser grade of polish than Autoglym SRP, but they're all the same thing.

SRP on it's own works for me, followed by some Collinite wax

[TheBaker]

Went over mine with toothpaste too, has taken some of the dullness off but nowhere near as shiny as the ones above. I spent about 5 mins though lol

Is it possible to get them really shiny with toothpaste alone?? Just lots of elbow grease??

[Leon.]

Probably depends if you're using teeth whitening or not

I would suggest that it's fine for the first step, but you need something with a finer grit for the next stage.