Repairing Scratched/Crazed Cayman Headlights

[Beanoir™]

The headlights on my CR have developed a crazed effect across the tops of the lens and I've no idea how it's happened but it's been getting worse and worse and looked a bit scruffy.  I don't use a high power jet wash on the car anyway for fear of removing the body decals, and don't use anything abrasive to clean it with.  

 

I had in the past used a headlight lens kit on another car and decided that I would have a go with what I already had in the garage.  

 

The headlights were looking like this... 

 

 

 

I used a microfibre cloth pad to apply some Faracla G3 scratch remover.  It's not too harsh I've found in the past, and far less abrasive than some others.  

 

 

The G3 is quite a thick compound though so I used a spray bottle to let it down a bit.  I applied this 3 times, wiping away the residue each time.  

 

At this point the scratches were still visible but much finer and more of a haze.  I then used a finer polish, just some Auto Glym Resin Polish.  Repeated the polishing a couple of times then buffed with a clean microfibre towel.  

 

I'm pleased with the result, if I did it again then I might remove he headlights and do the job on the bench.  Avoids having to clean up polish on the area of the car around the headlights - you can see in the photo below I've still got some polish in the gap to clean off!

 

 

 

 

[PhilCS]

Get some film on them once you've finished the polishing job, protects them from UV and scratches.  

 

Good work! 

[Bushman]

toothpaste works really well on small areas

[DKR_77]

Nice job, I might give this a go on mine actually