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Product Review: Meguiar's Perfect Clarity Headlight Restoration Kit
Meguiar's Perfect Clarity Headlight Restoration Kit
Description: (Taken from the Meguiar's website)
"The Simple, Effective Way To Restore Headlight Clarity! Just 2 simple steps: Step 1: CLEAN Step 2: COAT Meguiar’s Perfect Clarity Headlight Restoration Kit makes restoring dull, yellowed & oxidized headlights quick and easy. And Meguiar’s proprietary coating prevents re-oxidation for up to a year! (*Lab Tested Per ASTM G154-12a) Squeeze a quarter-sized amount of Perfect Clarity Cleaning Solution on to the provided cleaning pad. Using a back & forth motion, thoroughly clean the entire headlight surface. The surface is properly cleaned when it has a uniform, frosted appearance across the entire headlight. Wipe clean with a damp cloth & dry completely. NOTE: For even faster results, attach the Cleaning Pad to Meguiar’s DA Power System! Apply one, medium wet coat of Meguiar’s Perfect Clarity Headlight Coating to the entire headlight surface & let dry for 3-5 minutes. Follow with a 2nd coat to completely seal the headlight lens. The coating fully cures within 24 hours."
Price:
$19.99
The Review:
The brother of a friend of mine was asking if there's anything I can do with his faded and oxidized headlights. His current headlights weren't producing much light and he felt it was very unsafe when driving through highways with no street lights. Having restored a few headlight lenses in the past, I didn't have a problem agreeing to this task.
Now any detailer hanging out in AG or any other detailing forum would know that headlight restoration involves a lot of elbow grease. It involves sanding with different levels of abrasions, polishing with compounds/polish and finally sealing your work for protection against the harmful UV rays. Well, all that hard work is a thing of the past. Be prepared to be blown away with this product. I know I WAS!!!
The kit comes with 2 scuffing discs, a cleaning solution, and the coating aerosol spray. The scuffing discs feel like scotchbrite so you know it has some bite in them. What's amazing about these discs is that they're sized and shaped to mount to the DA power system. I think that's ingenious!!! Being able to clean the headlights with the DA power system will literally take the elbow grease out of the equation.
Here are the "before" pictures of the headlights I had to work with:
Tape the surrounding area in order to protect them from unwanted damage especially paint:
The instructions say to put a quarter sized dot of the cleaning solution into the scuffing disc. (There was a delay between when I added the solution up to when I took this picture so the solution soaked in a little)
Then start cleaning the headlight lens as shown:
It is recommended that you go left/right or up/down in a uniform manner. Make sure that you hit all areas evenly. The following picture shows 2 sections of the headlight. The right side shows the cleaning solution being worked on while the left side shows what the headlight lens looks like after it is cleaned. As you can see, there's uniform frosting on the lens.
After the entire headlight lens has been cleaned, now it's time for the magic to happen.. Just spray the headlight coating on the frosted headlight lens and watch the opaque lens turn to PERFECT CLARITY! I had my socks knocked off!!! I couldn't believe what I was seeing. Here's what the headlight lens looked like after the coating has been applied (2 coatings with 5 minutes in between). (Only the top one has been restored)
Here's the passenger side headlight lenses after they have both been restored:
Here's a shot of the entire truck after the headlights have been restored:
Final Thoughts:
Meguiar's hit a home run with this product. This is a total game changer in the headlight restoration arena IMO. It eliminates all the hard work and elbow grease in the process of restoring headlight lenses. It's even easier that they made the scuffing discs compatible with the DA power system! Gone are the days of sanding and polishing. Just scuff up the headlights and spray on the coating. IT'S THAT EASY! Not only is it easy but IT WORKS TOO! The coating has also been lab tested to last for at least a year! That's AMAZING.
If you have oxidized or hazed up headlights, then do yourself a favor and pick up this product on your next headlight restoration project. I promise you will not be disappointed.
Meguiar's Perfect Clarity Headlight Restoration Kit
Description: (Taken from the Meguiar's website)
"The Simple, Effective Way To Restore Headlight Clarity! Just 2 simple steps: Step 1: CLEAN Step 2: COAT Meguiar’s Perfect Clarity Headlight Restoration Kit makes restoring dull, yellowed & oxidized headlights quick and easy. And Meguiar’s proprietary coating prevents re-oxidation for up to a year! (*Lab Tested Per ASTM G154-12a) Squeeze a quarter-sized amount of Perfect Clarity Cleaning Solution on to the provided cleaning pad. Using a back & forth motion, thoroughly clean the entire headlight surface. The surface is properly cleaned when it has a uniform, frosted appearance across the entire headlight. Wipe clean with a damp cloth & dry completely. NOTE: For even faster results, attach the Cleaning Pad to Meguiar’s DA Power System! Apply one, medium wet coat of Meguiar’s Perfect Clarity Headlight Coating to the entire headlight surface & let dry for 3-5 minutes. Follow with a 2nd coat to completely seal the headlight lens. The coating fully cures within 24 hours."
Price:
$19.99
The Review:
The brother of a friend of mine was asking if there's anything I can do with his faded and oxidized headlights. His current headlights weren't producing much light and he felt it was very unsafe when driving through highways with no street lights. Having restored a few headlight lenses in the past, I didn't have a problem agreeing to this task.
Now any detailer hanging out in AG or any other detailing forum would know that headlight restoration involves a lot of elbow grease. It involves sanding with different levels of abrasions, polishing with compounds/polish and finally sealing your work for protection against the harmful UV rays. Well, all that hard work is a thing of the past. Be prepared to be blown away with this product. I know I WAS!!!
The kit comes with 2 scuffing discs, a cleaning solution, and the coating aerosol spray. The scuffing discs feel like scotchbrite so you know it has some bite in them. What's amazing about these discs is that they're sized and shaped to mount to the DA power system. I think that's ingenious!!! Being able to clean the headlights with the DA power system will literally take the elbow grease out of the equation.
Here are the "before" pictures of the headlights I had to work with:
Tape the surrounding area in order to protect them from unwanted damage especially paint:
The instructions say to put a quarter sized dot of the cleaning solution into the scuffing disc. (There was a delay between when I added the solution up to when I took this picture so the solution soaked in a little)
Then start cleaning the headlight lens as shown:
It is recommended that you go left/right or up/down in a uniform manner. Make sure that you hit all areas evenly. The following picture shows 2 sections of the headlight. The right side shows the cleaning solution being worked on while the left side shows what the headlight lens looks like after it is cleaned. As you can see, there's uniform frosting on the lens.
After the entire headlight lens has been cleaned, now it's time for the magic to happen.. Just spray the headlight coating on the frosted headlight lens and watch the opaque lens turn to PERFECT CLARITY! I had my socks knocked off!!! I couldn't believe what I was seeing. Here's what the headlight lens looked like after the coating has been applied (2 coatings with 5 minutes in between). (Only the top one has been restored)
Here's the passenger side headlight lenses after they have both been restored:
Here's a shot of the entire truck after the headlights have been restored:
Final Thoughts:
Meguiar's hit a home run with this product. This is a total game changer in the headlight restoration arena IMO. It eliminates all the hard work and elbow grease in the process of restoring headlight lenses. It's even easier that they made the scuffing discs compatible with the DA power system! Gone are the days of sanding and polishing. Just scuff up the headlights and spray on the coating. IT'S THAT EASY! Not only is it easy but IT WORKS TOO! The coating has also been lab tested to last for at least a year! That's AMAZING.
If you have oxidized or hazed up headlights, then do yourself a favor and pick up this product on your next headlight restoration project. I promise you will not be disappointed.
That way you get to try out the product too! 
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