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Old 06-30-2009, 09:19 PM   #3
absolutevodka
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Drives: 00 E320 W210
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Originally Posted by ohlord View Post
they should come out and you don't need a kit.
400 600 1000 2000 grit wet sand paper
a bucket of water with a splash of dish soap. Lightly sand with a sponge wrapped under the sand paper after you have soaked the sand paper for a half hour. Keep dipping it in the water sand side to side for about 5 minutes with the 400 grit then 5 minutes top to bottom the next grit and so on up till the 2000 grit and then get the buffing wheel out and polish the uniform haze to a high shine with Meguires plastx or menzerna intensive polish. Keep the buffer moving if you stay in one place you may scar the lens.Also do't have the buffer going crazy fast.
The first and last pics are the befores the third pic is the during the second pic is the almost done and the night time pic is with the 65watt www.danielsternlighting.com
rally bulbs installed. No malfunction warnings and lots more light.
More headlight polishing tips on www.benzworld.org w210 diy section.
And where would i be able to get those grits, becuase the only kits I've seen in auto shops like strauss and so on have 1000-1500-2000-2500 and a bottle of polish. It took out most of the nasty cloud build-up, but there are still parts of the headlights that are clouded mostly the bottom half of all 4 lenses. It told me to use 1000 for 8-10 minutes up and down or side to side, and then 1500-2500 3-5 minutes the oposite way of the previous grit. I was thinking about getting the 3M kit.
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