cudaspaz
Well-Known Member
As some of you may know, I work on crappy Mercedes benz vehicles for a living.
Well, some of them are crappy, some nice.
Anyways, I decided to start cleaning up some of the yellow, faded headlights on some of the older models as part of the major service intervals for an extra charge of course.
I went to Advance auto parts and asked them what was the best stuff they had and they recommended CV headlight restorer/defogger kit.
Crystal View.
www.myheadlight.com
I decided to use it on my first victim, a 2002 E-320 with horribly yellowed lenses which made it hard to see at night.
The finished result was phenominal.
They actually looked brand new by the time I was finished.
The kit includes, and requires wet sand paper and alot of elbow grease.
It has a two stage wet sand procedure with different grit paper, and two different types of liquids to apply.
Helps to have a spray bottle of water near by.
The first liquid seems to be a gritty-like paste which you rubb into the freshly sanded surface.
Then once that is washed off, you apply the second milky liquid really quick over the entire surface and let it air dry.
Before the last liquid is applied, you think the lights will look like crap, but once you apply that stuff, it's like magic.
My customer was very sceptical and thought for sure she was wasting her money, but she was really, really happy at how nice they looked.
So now, I can sell these jobs for $100 a pop easy, but my shoulders hurt like a mother the next day from all that sanding.
I guess it's something I don't do every day so I really felt it. LOL.
Well, some of them are crappy, some nice.
Anyways, I decided to start cleaning up some of the yellow, faded headlights on some of the older models as part of the major service intervals for an extra charge of course.
I went to Advance auto parts and asked them what was the best stuff they had and they recommended CV headlight restorer/defogger kit.
Crystal View.
www.myheadlight.com
I decided to use it on my first victim, a 2002 E-320 with horribly yellowed lenses which made it hard to see at night.
The finished result was phenominal.
They actually looked brand new by the time I was finished.
The kit includes, and requires wet sand paper and alot of elbow grease.
It has a two stage wet sand procedure with different grit paper, and two different types of liquids to apply.
Helps to have a spray bottle of water near by.
The first liquid seems to be a gritty-like paste which you rubb into the freshly sanded surface.
Then once that is washed off, you apply the second milky liquid really quick over the entire surface and let it air dry.
Before the last liquid is applied, you think the lights will look like crap, but once you apply that stuff, it's like magic.
My customer was very sceptical and thought for sure she was wasting her money, but she was really, really happy at how nice they looked.
So now, I can sell these jobs for $100 a pop easy, but my shoulders hurt like a mother the next day from all that sanding.
I guess it's something I don't do every day so I really felt it. LOL.