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Cloudy headlights and MOT
« on: 08 March 2011, 13:17:18 »
Hi there folks,

The meggy went in for MOT today. Guy at the garage was decent enough to phone me after I dropped it off and tell me it'll definately fail before taking my money. One of the reasons is the headlights are apparently excessively cloudy. Hasn't been a problem in the past, but this isn't my normal friendly, understanding garage, and maybe it's gotten worse in the last year.

So any idea what can be done? I'm tempted to try T-cut and polish, although looking closely they seem to be very finely cracked with age, so maybe that's all the way through and it wont T-cut out? Anyone had any luck with this?

If not, then is it possible to buy new covers only and disassemble/reassemble the units myself? Anyone got an idea of source/price?

Or am I stuck buying whole new units (xenons :() or finding a breaker?

Any advice appreciated. Cheers,

Liam
« Last Edit: 08 March 2011, 13:17:43 by Liam »
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Re: Cloudy headlights and MOT
« Reply #1 on: 08 March 2011, 13:36:20 »
As far as i am aware as a newbie, this would be your solution, depending how bad they are
http://www.omegaowners.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1275518109
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Re: Cloudy headlights and MOT
« Reply #2 on: 08 March 2011, 13:47:40 »
You can try using a light cutting compound like t cut or g3 ect and.lotts of water and a machine polisher and plenty of elbow grease.  You cant buy new lenses but try looking in the parts for sale section for some one breaking One and then look at the maintenance guides for refurbishing the lenses and the one for replacing the adjusters
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Re: Cloudy headlights and MOT
« Reply #3 on: 08 March 2011, 13:57:28 »
Thanks guys! I hadn't seen that one in the guides before :). Will give it a go.

Cheers
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Re: Cloudy headlights and MOT
« Reply #4 on: 08 March 2011, 14:00:00 »
Oh just one question...

In the guide he mentions using an orange or yellow polishing pad. Is that just cos he likes orange and yellow, or do the colours relate to different types of polishing pad?

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Re: Cloudy headlights and MOT
« Reply #5 on: 08 March 2011, 14:25:45 »
Different types of polishing pads.
Colour of pads represent how coarse the pads are
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