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[tooleater]

I see from Sam Burtons pics that he said he purchased 2 new head light lenses. Can these be purchased separately guys as I spent hours restoring mine with Tcut, I thought my right arm was going to fall off But it was a vast improvment on the old manky yellow oxzidised units
Cheers John..

[tidla]

They do look good.

New headlamps complete?

Do tell.

[Nick W]

I see from Sam Burtons pics that he said he purchased 2 new head light lenses. Can these be purchased separately guys as I spent hours restoring mine with Tcut, I thought my right arm was going to fall off But it was a vast improvment on the old manky yellow oxzidised units
Cheers John..

It's too late for you now, but T-cut simply isn't coarse enough for the job. Which is why it took you hours.
I did mine last week with G3 rubbing compound, and turned them from rough yellow lenses into sparkling clear ones in about 20 minutes for the pair. As I was off work with tonsillitus at the time, it didn't take a lot of effort either.

[JimE]

I see from Sam Burtons pics that he said he purchased 2 new head light lenses. Can these be purchased separately guys as I spent hours restoring mine with Tcut, I thought my right arm was going to fall off But it was a vast improvment on the old manky yellow oxzidised units
Cheers John..

It's too late for you now, but T-cut simply isn't coarse enough for the job. Which is why it took you hours.
I did mine last week with G3 rubbing compound, and turned them from rough yellow lenses into sparkling clear ones in about 20 minutes for the pair. As I was off work with tonsillitus at the time, it didn't take a lot of effort either.

Never having used G3, what did you polish them up with after using it?

[dbug]

I see from Sam Burtons pics that he said he purchased 2 new head light lenses. Can these be purchased separately guys as I spent hours restoring mine with Tcut, I thought my right arm was going to fall off But it was a vast improvment on the old manky yellow oxzidised units
Cheers John..

It's too late for you now, but T-cut simply isn't coarse enough for the job. Which is why it took you hours.
I did mine last week with G3 rubbing compound, and turned them from rough yellow lenses into sparkling clear ones in about 20 minutes for the pair. As I was off work with tonsillitus at the time, it didn't take a lot of effort either.

Never having used G3, what did you polish them up with after using it?

T-cut probably 

[kcl]

I just polished one headlight yesterday, took about an hour or so doing it all manually, part of the G6 was applied with a machine (which is too large for headlights and therefore merely of no use). First with 1500 wet paper, then with Farecla G6, finally AutoGlym red. Looks ok, alot brighter though not as new.

[Nick W]

Never having used G3, what did you polish them up with after using it?

Nothing. I polished them with compound until it stopped cutting, and then buffed them with a clean soft cloth. The driver's side took two attempts, and the passenger three.

I was going to swap to G10, but I couldn't find my bottle, and it hadn't proved to be necessary.

[AndysCD]

Yes, as mentioned above, 1/2 hour with G3 was enough to sort mine out. Just keep going till it stops cutting and clean off with clean rag and warm soapy water.

Andy

[a2reed]

can we just buy NEW  plastic lenses anywhere?

[RobG]

can we just buy NEW  plastic lenses anywhere?

Nope

[a2reed]

Doh!

[bigdom]

just a quick question and maybay a stupid question but to clean up the headlights with g3 etc, is this on outside of headlights or inside the lense cover

[Sam Burton]

Hi guys i just brought a set of Headlights of of ebay (bidding for £30) they were the standard bulb units but all i wanted was the Lenses so just simply pealed off and stuck them on the HID light units Just keep an eye on the bay and grab em quick as they were piece of p*** to change over and also the units were only a few months old   

[Andy B]

..... is this on outside of headlights or inside the lense cover

The outside of the lense 

[Entwood]

Hi guys i just brought a set of Headlights of of ebay (bidding for £30) they were the standard bulb units but all i wanted was the Lenses so just simply pealed off and stuck them on the HID light units Just keep an eye on the bay and grab em quick as they were piece of p*** to change over and also the units were only a few months old   

methinks you might be breaking several C&U laws here .. as well as being dangerous to other users.

HID lenses are AFAIK TOTALLY different to "standard" lenses due to the way the projector bulb works ...

I may be wrong, and in some ways I hope I am ...but PLEASE check that the lenses are "correct" for your type of headlight system before anything untoward happens....