3M 39008 Headlight Lens Restoration System

3M™ Headlight Lens Restoration System is a 4 step process that restores the clarity of yellowed, hazed, or dull headlight lenses. Plastic lenses can yellow with age, reducing headlight brightness, and new lenses can be expensive. The 3M™™ Headlight Lens Restoration System lets you shine and restore plastic lenses, including headlights, taillights, fog and directional lights.

• For use on headlights, taillights, fog, and directional lights
• Kit contains sanding discs and polishing pad with compound
• For use with a drill
• Saves $100s versus purchasing a new headlight
• Improves the appearance of a car - with "like new" headlights
• Simple, four-step process
• Use with a drill

In the past, replacing scratched, clouded or yellowed plastic headlight covers was an expensive necessity in order to preserve safety. But now with 3M™ Headlight Lens Restoration solutions, car and motorcycle owners can shine and restore plastic lenses — including headlights, tail lights, fog and directional lights — to like-new condition for a fraction of the cost.

Plastic surfaces are great for giving vehicles lightweight, durable components – from plastic headlight lenses to motorcycle windshields, plastic tail lights, trailers and more. But these plastic components can yellow and haze with weather, sun and sand, limiting visibility and diminishing the appearance and value of the vehicle.

Dim headlight bulbs and hazy plastic headlight lenses or surfaces may lead to this reduced visibility, putting you, your passengers and other cars at risk. The problem increases with the age of the lens, and with the average age of cars on the road over 10 years old, the problem is growing.

The 3M™ Headlight Lens Restoration System is designed to restore clarity to headlight lenses that have become yellowed, cloudy, or hazed over time. By restoring clarity to the lens you improve the performance of the headlight and enhance the appearance of the vehicle. Headlight lenses have either a hard surface layer or a UV resistant coating on the outer surface of the lens. Once a lens has been degraded by sun or UV light and becomes yellowed or cloudy, it is necessary to remove that yellowed layer in order to restore clarity to the lens. The effort required to refurbish headlight lenses will vary greatly by vehicle manufacturer, year, make, model, and headlight design. Large or extremely hazed lenses may require more than one kit.

With the 3M™ Headlight Lens Restoration System, you will use a 1200-1600 RPM drill equipped with a backup pad and sanding discs to remove the yellowed layer from the headlight lens surface. A higher rpm drill could generate excessive heat and can cause damage to the headlight lens that is difficult to remove. A lower rpm drill does not work efficiently for this process. Two sanding steps will follow to refine or reduce the sand scratches that are made when removing the yellowed layer.