my headlight fixtures on my 87 gt are pretty fogged up and yellow looking. i know i need some new ones but does anyone know a way to clean em up some in the meantime?

 

bro tried that with like 3 different products, it doesnt work......

 

mine weren't horrible, but i used meguiars plastx.
it worked pretty good... you just gotta keep rubbin! lol

 

I use McGuires Platsic polish and low speed buffer and they turn out good. Some dont take well and other look like new.

 

someone did a write up on this on this site try looking for it. save yourself the trouble and buy new. dont screw around and waste your time and money.

 

yea, I was in the same boat as you. I've heard of guys using toothpaste. I gave it a try and it worked pretty well. I havent seen the meguiars stuff used so i cant really compare the two. But the toothpaste is a short term fix, they start tofog back up in a month or so...

but i agree with matt, dont waste your time. Just go buy new headlights, it will look amillion times better.

 

yeah... i'm going to buy new headlights whenever i have money to do so.
it is only temporary.

 

Thanks guys i will give the toothpaste a try for now...i should be good on money soon so il just buy new ones...

 

if toothpaste doesnt work at advanced auto parts they have a kit in a silver package that somewhat works with getting the yellowness out...and it doesnt require having a buffer...but id say only use that if your sure your going to be getting new ones...becuase ive heard that it will damage the headlights...thats the only reason i used it on mine was to try ot make it so i could see a little better until i had the money to order the new headlights i have now

 

I have done this on a couple dozen cars and the biggest problem I have seen it the Yellowing came back within a year on a few of them. I did it on my moms Acura about 2 Years ago an they still look good. But on the Taurus it looked like crap in 3 months. It is definately a hit an miss type of fix. It usally works OK but not perfect every time. The Toothpaste works as a starting point. Follow it up with I good platic polish like McGuires. Hand rubbing them out as the final step seems to get better results.