Autoglym Headlight Restoration Complete Kit, Quickly Restore Cloudy And Discoloured Headlights, Designed For Use With An Electric Drill, Includes Sanding Discs, Restoring Compound And Microfibre Cloth

Before I start this review, I have assigned this product 5 starts for what Amazon references as Sheerness. I have interpreted 'Sheerness' as the ability of the product to do what it claims. My reference for this is the Concise Oxford English Dictionary, 11th Edition. This product was purchased to undertake a repair to the headlights on my wife's vehicle that were starting to show early signs of 'lens bloom', external clouding on the top of the perspex main lights. I selected Auto Glym based on product reputation and 40+years of using Auto Glym products on all of our vehicles. I felt that £30.00 was an acceptable risk before purchasing 2 x new lights if this did not work. I need have had no such fears. Clear simple instructions, a supporting Auto Glym video, watched 2-3 times prior to undertaking the task were excellent training tools and gave me confidence to effectively destroy the surface of each headlight. I was able to easily remove the lights on our Volvo XC-60 and was able to perform this repairs off the vehicle. This helped me considerably and I felt gave me a better quality finish. It took me around 30-40 minutes per headlight working on a bench next to the car and providing you follow the instructions to the letter in terms of drill speed, use of water and the various grades of discs the end results were outstanding and much better than I anticipated. Overall a very professional crystal clear finish was obtained on each headlight. The headlights have been on the vehicle around 4 weeks and no signs of any bloom returning. Following the task I found I was able to recover the very fine grit discs and have reused them undertaking a headlight repair on a Mercedes due to a stone chip. I was able to remove the scratch completely that was in the middle of the headlight lens. It took around 20 minutes to complete while the headlight was left on the car. I don't have any before photos but in the attached images, on the white car the bloom extended from the top of the headlight lens over its complete length and down to 20% of the lens surface. On the grey car the chip and scratch damage was in the centre of the lens. As you can see, more than 4 weeks on the finish on both sets of lights has been exceptional. A great saving over a set of replacement lights. What a great product that even the least able DIYer will be able to obtain first class results. I have been looking for replacement fine grit discs but have managed to clean, wash and reuse the original sets of discs. The instructions from Auto Glym and clear simple and work but I recommend you also look at the video if you have never done this previously. Very highly recommended, an excellent product.

A very good product. Step-by-step instructions. Take your time and you will achieve great results.

I have a 20-year-old Mazda with headlights that had seen better days, scratched, chipped, yellowed, and cloudy. Honestly, I was pretty sceptical about whether a restoration kit could make a real difference. But what a pleasant surprise! The Autoglym Headlight Restoration Kit did a fantastic job. The headlights now look almost like new, clear and fresh, which really lifts the whole appearance of the car and increases safety at dark. A quick tip for anyone using this kit: if you're using a battery-powered drill, make sure the battery is fully charged and strong. Even better, use a corded electric drill for consistent power. Be mindful of the drill speed, especially during polishing. If you go too fast, you'll end up with white polishing compound splattered everywhere. Ideally, your drill should have adjustable speed control. All in all, I'm very pleased with the results. The difference is night and day. Check out the photos, they really do say more than a thousand words. Highly recommended for anyone looking to bring their old headlights back to life!

Good, easy product to use. Just wish it came with more of the lowest grade sandpaper for the first blasting. They just clogged up almost instantly, not sure if it was a product on the car or what. But overall the headlights do look much better. Cheaper than a full new headlight so worth a shot before you buy them if they’re needed.

My headlights were really bad, I read loads of reviews on here and other sites and decided to buy the Autoglym Headlight Restoration kit. I can't compare this with any others as this is the first time I have ever restored headlights. I bought tape for the paintwork and have a battery drill that will just about reach the recommended speed. The problem with my car is that the plastic grille sits slightly proud and the lights are quite pointed so I was concerned that I would cause damage. Luckily the Internet came to the rescue and I found instructions to remove the grille and the headlights. That made the task a lot easier, apart from getting it apart and back together again. I watched a lot of videos and one of the reviewers suggested a manual wet and dry sanding with P600, so I gave that a go and lightly sanded off the damaged outer coating, I sprayed the surface down regularly and cleared it with a cloth to see how it was going. The kit has a P800 and P1500 discs which you use dry, I followed the instructions using medium pressure, there are 6xP800 and 4xP1500 which I split between the lights and used them all. The foam disc is used wet and it's really the first time that you get to see that it is working. Finally the sponge pad with the polish finishes it off. One recommendation is cover everything as the polish gets everywhere, it does come off but everything has white flecks of polish including me. I managed to get my car back together and the lights look like new, my garage wanted a small fortune to replace both units. It took me around an hour to remove and refit the lights, there are just two bolts holding them in place, the adjustment is internal to the unit so I shouldn't have any issues with the alignment. I would happily recommend this restoration kit, I would suggest a UV clear coat or film after restoring so that it lasts longer. I have a 3M clear coat wipe that I plan to use.

Worth every penny! Takes some time, but the results really are worth it. I've used other non-drill based products in the past and they didn't work as well, so decided to go for this and it's like I have a new set of lights. If you have the ability to remove the lights from the car, I would recommend this as it saves a lot of time taping and you can get right to the edges without worrying about paintwork.

Solid. Watch the youtube video.

The instructions tell you to use a high-speed drill, my lights have a plastic type surface so I opted to use arm power as wet and dry paper can remove a fair amount of surface material, the procedure with out the drill took about an hour per lens, using water different grades of wet and dry in circular motion and the fine paste. The kit did remove most of the light scratches and did bring back some clarity , but not perfect by any means even when using the fine paste and hard surface rubbing still looked a bit dull, it should be noted there is no clarifier final coat sealer with this kit , it’s basically keep sanding and polishing until it gets to the point that its acceptable , but I wasn’t keen on the drill idea so used a clarifier sealer from another product that supplied 2 sealer packs , this did the job for me and would pass an MOT or NCT. I have restored several head lights on several vehicles and it would appear to me if you don’t use a clarifying liquid for the final coat it could take quite a bit of rubbing and polishing to get a good result, admittedly you may have to do the restoration as a yearly or 2 yearly thing but its reasonably easy to do

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Funciona genial siguiendo todos los pasos. En casos de grandes daños abra que lijar con un grado menor al que incluye el kit.

Wow, de koplamen van een wat oudere Honda Civic zijn weer helemaal als nieuw geworden. Echt als nieuw!! Het eindresultaat gaf echt een wow gevoel. Zorg wel voor een goed opgeladen accu voor de schroefboormachine. Ik heb twee volle accu's gebruikt voor al het schuurwerk. Maar je resultaat wordt rijkelijk beloond!