Not joined yet? Register for free and enjoy features such as alerts, private messaging and viewing latest posts and topics.

Cloudy headlamp clean

Discuss your latest mods or ideas, and anything to do with the BMW X5 (E53).
Post Reply
A Blair
Member
Member
Posts: 106
Joined: Thu Mar 23, 2017 5:35 pm
Location: Antwerp

Cloudy headlamp clean

Post by A Blair » Sun May 02, 2021 2:14 pm

So I have had my E53 for some time now, it has ran perfect except for one ongoing glitch I will raise in a separate topic.
The front headlights had been clouding over with time as any plastic headlights will. I had bought a 3M kit a long time ago which a few members out here have tried.
I followed the instructions faithfully and just about finished although not to my satisfaction. So I grabbed my chemical guys vline stuff and polisher.
I used the orange pad and v36 chemical to do a little more polishing followed by the white pad and v38 chemical followed by a sealant. It is a considerable improvement over the original cloudy look. I now feel that it can be done better with sanding discs and chemical guys pads and chemicals. I spotted some discs on ebay that seem perfect for £5.94p.
Attachments
Final
Final
20210501_184420.jpg (283.72 KiB) Viewed 601 times
Taped up
Taped up
20210501_154530.jpg (294.34 KiB) Viewed 601 times
Passenger side
Passenger side
20210501_154243.jpg (242.34 KiB) Viewed 601 times
This is how they looked
This is how they looked
20210501_154235.jpg (239.6 KiB) Viewed 601 times

Online
Leslie
Snr Member
Snr Member
Posts: 1276
Joined: Sat Sep 29, 2018 10:58 am

Re: Cloudy headlamp clean

Post by Leslie » Sun May 02, 2021 6:19 pm

Those turned out well , I did mine with a little kit of small rounds sandpaper type pads you mount in a drill of ebay but its hard work and all to easy to leave swirl marks in the plastic so a buffer/polisher is a much better job :D

Post Reply