"FULL" headlight restoration both sides 🚘
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 13 มิ.ย. 2022
- In this video you will be viewing the proper way to do a full headlight restoration, (both lights) You will also hear about using the proper tools and equipment in this video and negative points of bad headlight restoration practice..(2006 Lexus SC430)
I've done "OVER A THOUSAND HEADLIGHTS" and growing, more and more every day.And have tried DOZENS of different ways and combinations of products.. find out what I've discovered to be the best: products , techniques, and ideologies of headlight restoration and learn about headlights also check out my results and and see that I am correct...(the clearest headlights done right)
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🌎THE HEADLIGHT RESTORATION PRO🌎 EMAIL: theheadlightrestorationpro@gmail.com
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Note: Although I am a headlight restoration expert
and do headlights for a living, I also provide other restoration and detailing services (outside of the vehicle) such as: scratch removal, paint chip fix, minor painting, black trim restoration, water spot removal on Glass and paint, paint correction, paint restoration, oxidation removal, polish buff and wax, ceramic coat, engine bay cleaning and detailing, and much more.
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Hi, great work, I just keep watching and learning, getting my stuff together for my first try, thanks for all the how to videos.
Awesome....these videos will definitely get you to where you need to be..a huge starting advantage..💯🧠
Thank you for your continued support...🫵🏼
Great video man. Just a little adjustment I'd make is maybe reducing the volume on the background video cause it makes it a little hard to hear you. Keep perfecting your craft man 🤙🏽
Thank you for awesome content. Learning with every video I watch. Thank you for sharing your skill and tips with us, your viewers. Shayne, Cape Town, South Africa
Awesome man I appreciate you.. also very pleased that my presence reaches that far...💯👍🏽
Thank you for watching please don't forget to subscribe..
@@theheadlightrestorationpro Subscribed. Again, thank you for sharing your knowledge and putting in all the work to make your channel possible. You make a huge impact with your 'down to Earth' style because everyone can relate. I pray that GOD will bless you, your family and that your channel will exceed your expectations. 🙏
@@shaynejacobs7578 wow man...thank you very much..👏🏼
Hope all is well, look forward to your next video! Curious to hear about your "after care" kit or recommendations
Hopefully soon it's been really hot in California and I've been busy...lol hard to film in 103° heat
I love the results you are getting! And I have so many questions...
What clear coat do you use for the colder and wetter seasons?
Would wet sanding with the P500 make any difference?
What do you think of Meguiars PlasticX product?
Could you use a ceramic polish as the final protectant instead of the spray coating?
Keep up the good work man!
Thanks for watching my videos...
Appreciate it...
As far as a clear coat goes you can use this Maguire's year round, only whether or not good in is windy... Then I use towelettes..3m..
What standing with the p500 won't do anything but make the sanding less efficient, it will cut the power of the disc..
My glass plastic x is okay I find it to be a little watery at times.. I used the 3M stuff that's in most of my videos because it's thick and mostly oil-based with saturates the lights a lot better..
I would never use a ceramic coating or polish or anything on headlights, I've tried many ceramic sealants and polishes things like that on the headlights they do not seem to work correctly they always have a cloudiness to them no matter what company they're from..
Hope....that answers some of your questions..
@@theheadlightrestorationpro Thanks for the speedy response, you have saved us a lot of time with trial and error with your tips and tricks in the headlight restoration trade. 👍
Hi THRP thank you for all of your great videos. You have taught me a lot about headlight Restoration.
Question for you please. If the headlight is just lightly discolored would you start with your P 800 disc or something else? Thanks Tom
Thank you for your support it is much appreciated...
Usually I wouldn't start with 800, I would still run the process just the amount of removal and time removing that first layer would be different. There are times where I use one pad for both lights and barely take off any material because there's not much of discoloring or damage, then I rely more on the services of the 800 disc, I'm finished out the restoration with the same formula..
It's just a different gauging of how much you need to use the 500 disc.. the only variant that I do is if I have a life that only has one specific area of peeling or damage but the rest of the light looks good, then I used the 500 only on the bad part and use the 800 on the good parts just to dig into it a little bit to have something for the Cody to adhere to... But that's a rare scenario as well usually just a little bit warmer and on the top part..
Hope that answers your question..
Thanks for watching
@@theheadlightrestorationpro thank you very much for the quick reply and the additional tips. two 👍🏼👍🏼 up
Hey may love the vids! Question, what do you think of spray max 2k 2 in 1? It states it is a head light clear and that it has UV protection. Is that better or any different than the 2k you mention in your other videos? Thank you in advance
Yes these are the primary 2K clear that I speak of, the two-in-one the one that says for headlights is not as bad as the others people generally tend to use the others because they're more readily available. In my opinion even the headlight version or the one that can be used for headlights bonds to headlight too hard which leads to damage of the actual surface of the headlight.. also they are all heavily scratch resistant, extremely scratch resistant.. so when they go bad again which they will there's no permanent fix for a headlight, there's no headlight restoration that will last forever,, so if you ever hear somebody say permanent headlight restoration they have no idea what they're talking about...
Anyways they are extremely scratch resistant which is basically what you're doing when you sand off that clear coat to be able to send down the the damage surface of the headlight underneath the clear coat.. in some cases it's damn near impossible, others it'll just take a long time and a lot of material... And some of them will just make things worse for the headlight they heat up and smear around they're not made with the mindset that you will have to remove this in two or three or 4 years to provide a fresh headlight restoration...
Which is highly not optimal... For the person restoring the headlight and for the customer,, because now they're going to have to pay more because the guy doing the headlights is going to have to work more, not only that the potential of permanent damage is much higher.. UV repellent is pretty much microscopic reflective particles inside of the clear coat and they pretty much oxidize and die after a while so the actual clear coat will start turning yellow in any clear or any UV clear coat, once this does these 2K products are so hard it overheats the surface of the headlight even faster than it would if there was nothing there leading to permanent damage... They are good products but in my experience they do not belong on headlights.. also cost-effectiveness is not there, for business, or even for the regular person there's much better and cheaper products out there that are safer for your headlights, these products as you know once they're mixed when you pop the bottom with the red top you have one use that's it, you got to time limit on using the product and those go for about $30 a can...
As you see in my videos , I tell everybody 2K clear is the worst thing you can put on your headlights 💯....
Thank you for watching and thanks for the question.. hopefully plan to get some new videos out there been really busy...
Do I have to remove the old coating from the factory before applying the Meguiars Headlight Coating? My car is pretty new and I do have some minor scratches on the headlight. Can I start with 2000K-3000K, polish compund and then Clear Coat?
Also, do you recommend using water with 2000K-3000K?
Watch why not to double coat on this channel...
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Do you think drying the light off with rubbing alcohol is recommended pre-coat spray
I literally touch bases with question on every video on this step... check them out...
I went ahead and used all the same products listed in the description, what would be your advice if I’m seeing small swirl marks and fish tail looking sand marks after I do a pass with compound? Is it applying too much pressure during the p500 stage?
Exactly, you're on to it leaving the swirls behind at that stage would be either one or two things, too much pressure, or not enough of the p800 sanding stage with the hand sanding of the 800 as well..
But 95% of the time if you're following my videos you're applying too much pressure remember when you wash my videos I always say you don't have to apply pressure like that just the pressure and weight of the drill per se... Very light firm pressure let the drill do the work you don't have to push hard.. I'm 99% sure that's what's going on and when you do see that cuz even sometimes I get that as well you just do it over again start from ground zero and it should be quicker the second time around you won't have to do as much but still do it all over...👍🏼💯
@@theheadlightrestorationpro thanks man, definitely top notch in your skill.. appreciate the content 👍🏽
Hi I just came across your video… great work and results look amazing! I have a bit of an issue and hoping you could chime in… I opened up my headlamps to paint the housing… and I decided to clean the inside of the lens- not realizing there was a coating inside. I used windex and all of a sudden it got sticky 😭. I was able to get all the sticky out and it is clear again. There are surface scratches but my question is… what do you recommend I can do to salvage this before I can put them back together? Any info would be greatly appreciated 🙌 thank you
Sorry dude my best advice would be to get new headlights once you open the headlights they're nothing but trouble they're always going to fail you and do weird things various levels of malfunction and once you mess with that inside lens not too much you can really do.. and she just have thousands of hours to deal with this thing and keep playing with it forever but in my opinion is not worth it because it almost always will malfunction in a matter of months if not weeks whether it's to seal or the polycarbonate lens or the actual components of the light.. even when professionals that do that as a service always have issues and the lights all the crap...
It's highly advised not to do these things even though people do them they don't tell you the dark secret that the lights are shi# afterwards..💯
@@theheadlightrestorationpro thank you very much for your feedback. I think the moment I sprayed windex on it I realized that I f&cked up 😑. Since the car is not a daily driver I am going to try my best and reseal them best as possible and just see what happens lol. Thanks again and looking forward to more of your videos! 🙌
@NSXomfg ☺️ awesome... No problem
Thanks again for a informative video! I have done a couple now and I end up flinging polish all over the car with the finesse it pad, I'm assuming I'm using too much or getting it too wet? Also do you wash the finesse it pad or does it just go its whole life just adding polish?
Gotta watch videos closer...
But never wash just keep adding to...it resurface itself... No need to get it so wet sometimes not at all if you used it anytime recently.. and it only takes a dime size amount for a headlight..
If you find stuff flinging everywhere, hold the polisher away from the vehicle and pull the trigger, it will spin that moisture out...
Also you can even get away with out hitting it with liquid ever if you keep it saturated with the compound...also always shake up the compound before use...never wash the pad ,it just keep grinding down, it resurfaces it's self until there is not enough to use... Then you change it..
Thanks for watching..
I would watch all the endings of the videos, at that point...
I rarely ad liquid,,this is only for new or pads that haven't been used for like a week or more...
Sweet, thanks!
Good video. What drill attachment do you use? I don’t see it on your list. Thanks
There are millions of different type of drill attachments to use.. I use the cheap ones cuz they're light.. you can find them in some drill attachment kits.. or search the internet for them Amazon does not typically sell them.. so much effect that I kind of make my own... Gluing a interface pad to the Post and continue to replace it..
@@theheadlightrestorationpro thank you. I guess I got homework to do. 😂
Watch... plenty more to come....today Even...😊
Thank you very much for sharing this knowledge! I will start offering this in my area . What type of marketing are you using to get clients? Also how long does the Ryobi regular drill battery last?
As far as the battery goes I have different ones 1.5ah ,2.0ah, the 4.0 will last a long time.. like 5-7 cars...the other ones about 3-4.. as far as marketing goes just show what you got to offer is always the best approach to any business. 💯
@@theheadlightrestorationpro Hey thank you for your input and responsiveness! Where are you located ?
@@kevinjohnson-qc6cs California...
How long does it typically take to do a set of average size headlights?
@@kevinjohnson-qc6cs typically about 30 minutes to 45 minutes on average..
I'm working on 2016 Hyundai Elantra and the oxidized top mowed down nicely with the 3M 500 however now trying to remove the lower half of the good clearcoat and so far it has taken SIX discs and its still not removed. Is this normal? Do i leave the good coating alone?
It's very rare that a factory light is this hard,, hyundais sometimes have really hard surface light..
That or somebody has done this before and spray 2K clear on it which is almost impossible to grind off.
On these lights sometimes it's best to fix the problem area and fade into the non samish area and possibly just hit with an 800 to run a bit and then seal over everything with clear coat..
You can only work with what you can..
@@theheadlightrestorationpro Check your email! about the last job I did, LOL
@@bobsgarageFL great work buddy...those lights were jacked up...
They came out really good...👍🏼
@@theheadlightrestorationpro check email
How much headlight you can do whit the meguiars coating??
Depends... average 3-4 cars..
Hello Sir .. Ok so i followed your steps and after the 3000 i still have haze ?? I’m thinking one of a couple of reasons for this 1- i did not go far enough with the first two steps ? or The 3000 i ended with was not the trizact pad ? What are your thoughts?
You're actually supposed to have Hayes if you follow the videos... After the water dries or dehydrates it hey just back over,
Then you polish your buff out...
Definitely make sure you have a trizact pad..
Just make sure you slow down and watch a couple more videos rewind it if you have to watch all of them on just that segment..
You will get it and just keep in mind sometimes it takes time to get it,,, when you watch my videos don't forget that even though it is possible to reproduce something on that level I still have done thousands of headlights.....
Just because you can watch a Mike Tyson video of him showing you how to fight does it mean you can go be heavyweight champion metaphorically..lol
It takes time... Practice makes perfect..
👍🏼
@@theheadlightrestorationpro Yes i agree with all .. i noticed in your video after the 3000 i thought you had a mirror finish at that point ? i need to get a delco polisher the drill won’t cut the mustard
@@kevinjohnson-qc6cs yeah it's possible to get a little clarity with the regular drill put on a percent scale you'll get like 15% with the drill with the polisher you get like 300%...
If you go into the the bio everything that I use is in there with an Amazon links which is where I got all my stuff from....
@@theheadlightrestorationpro Yes i did that and saved everything in my amazon cart i had to wait on the polisher until the resources come in 🤑🤑
@@theheadlightrestorationpro Ok i was thinking the same once i go over it with the 3m compound and the polisher i should be amazed
Love that chair where did you get it from
Amazon there's links in the bio direct link you to it...👍🏼
@@theheadlightrestorationpro great man
I’m going to be doing paying customers later today . Do you mind me asking what is the going rate thanks
You would have to Google your area ..
@@theheadlightrestorationpro ok thanks
Have you or do you use 2k clear coat spray sir?
Watch my videos...there is a couple of videos that talk about 2k clear products..👍🏻
Will you tell me how much to charge for this restoration?
Sorry, I can't really answer the question this depends highly on what location in general you are at and a bunch of different variabilities like: what city, what services you're offering, do you have a shop or are you mobile, what is the quality of your work, how long have you been doing it experience is a big thing, many different factors..
I was just suggest doing some research in your area.. everything realistic with yourself and your customers on your skill set and level versus your pricing..
Lot of factors that you'd have to figure out for yourself
The main thing is demand which pretty much boils down to what city and area you live in..
I touch bases on this in a couple videos. Please continue to watch you probably run into it..💯👍🏽🤓
Subscribe.. watch all my videos, literally more than once if you need to soak up information and I guarantee you'll have a marketable product.
What do you charge for Headlight Restoration?
Headlight restoration varies and you're given town and you're given skill if you do poor work you can charge top dollar if you do the best work in your town you can only charge so much.. it all depends where you're located hotter cities means more need for headlight restoration more dense cities like, Los Angeles, Arizona, Texas etc .. will be in a higher demand because of the population density and the bad weather hot weather..
800 vs 3000 disc?
What exactly are you referring to that I use or in general?
@@theheadlightrestorationpro P800 paper after jumping P3000? No need for 1200-1500-2000? Thanks!
Absolutely no need for these pads in this formula...the are too close to one another in grit size and sanding ability.. you could use them but you would just be spending the a lot more money to get exactly the same outcome.. I've tried it and come to the conclusion there's no difference except expenditure of funds...
And general the finer the disk they get more expensive...
Hope this answers your question..
Thanks for watching..
@@theheadlightrestorationpro thanks!
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Check your email please! We need more videos!! LOL
There's an old saying Jonathon Deaux and it's even more relevant today, ignorance is bliss.
Yes I agree..
Private car's are NOT VEHICLES.
Not sure what you mean
I know that @@theheadlightrestorationproa vehicle is a contraption constructed to be employed and used on the (PUBLIC ROADS) for PROFIT GAIN HIRE and REWARD and a driver is a PERSON who operates such a vehicle, a private car/automobile is the owners private property and can only used for the social domestic and pleasure purposes, and freedom of travel, never for profit. any help T.H.R.P?
Awesomely put..👍🏼😎
Check email please. Awesome video. We need more!
Got it!