Clear coating headlight fail lol

[willisnz]

@sobanoodle  ahhh, that makes much more sense. Had never come across autosol and just saw "polish" in the description (ignoring that it's for metal!) so was wondering how it would get rid of oxidisation!

 

I already have some heavy cutting compound, step I am missing is some polish afterwards.  You do it by hand?

[sobanoodle]

6 minutes ago, willisnz said:

@sobanoodle  ahhh, that makes much more sense. Had never come across autosol and just saw "polish" in the description (ignoring that it's for metal!) so was wondering how it would get rid of oxidisation!

 

I already have some heavy cutting compound, step I am missing is some polish afterwards.  You do it by hand?

 

Autosol is originally a metal polish, brilliant for polishing mufflers etc (or headlights if you wish, I even polished some high end Swiss watches with it at some stage believe it or not  )

 

8 minutes ago, willisnz said:

You do it by hand?

 

I like Meguire's, get it from Smits.

[Subru]

Did other headlight.

I sanded it a tad more and took more time. Also used hot cans and 4 light coats and these two things helped heaps. Also has a small fan wafting farm air at light as it was getting cold. Came out mint other than the orange peel. How do I fix orange peel?

[sobanoodle]

18 minutes ago, Subru said:

Came out mint other than the orange peel. How do I fix orange peel?

 

Wet send with 1500 grit than cut and polish?