I’ve seen videos of people using brake fluid, brake cleaner, and paint thinner to remove the spray tint off of tail lights. I will not try this because I know those chemicals will dissolve plastic. I did the passenger tail yesterday. The tint was faded out and to me just looked like crap.
I used the 3M method of plastic lense restoration but with more hand sanding. This tint kept gumming up the expensive 3” Velcro disc so I switched to hand until I removed all the tint, then finished it out with 800 and then 3000 trizact pad and compound. Of course later I watched a YouTube of a guy using denatured alcohol and removed but with a lot of elbow grease.
The tint made them look like an old cracked light with trash and mold settled in the bottom. I might get to the drivers side this afternoon. Headlights are really hazed and I might start on one of them. The battery life on the cordless 3” polisher really sucks, takes one and a half battery to finish one light. I thought of making a come to you business out of this, but not until I come up with a polisher that won’t die after one light. It’s 12V lithium 2Ah. I’d rather it be corded to a car battery I could recharge at home and do several cars a day.
I used the 3M method of plastic lense restoration but with more hand sanding. This tint kept gumming up the expensive 3” Velcro disc so I switched to hand until I removed all the tint, then finished it out with 800 and then 3000 trizact pad and compound. Of course later I watched a YouTube of a guy using denatured alcohol and removed but with a lot of elbow grease.
The tint made them look like an old cracked light with trash and mold settled in the bottom. I might get to the drivers side this afternoon. Headlights are really hazed and I might start on one of them. The battery life on the cordless 3” polisher really sucks, takes one and a half battery to finish one light. I thought of making a come to you business out of this, but not until I come up with a polisher that won’t die after one light. It’s 12V lithium 2Ah. I’d rather it be corded to a car battery I could recharge at home and do several cars a day.