headlamp refurbishment

Just for anyone thinking of doing this.
I purchased a 3M kit which comes complete with a rotor pad, different grade of sanding discs, polish masking tape etc.
Its quite a good kit, but for deep scratches and pitting the sanding discs are a little fine in my opinion.
I ended up in addition using elbow grease and 320 and 1200 grit wet and dry too, with a final dab of T cut for good measure.
But combining those with my dewalt and the 3M kit brought fairly good results.
I left the bonnet open to save masking additional bits, if you do that cover the innards with a sheet, that polish gets flung everywhere.
Also, double up on the masking tape, one slip with the Dewalt could have cost me a lot of paint.
The first photo is a before heavily pitted lamp, the second after a bit of graft.
Anyway, lots of elbow grease and patience brought results, the 3M kit is around £30.00.

 

I have used the same kit and can agree the polish certainly flicks about. The two units I'm working on are heavily pitted and have decided to hand sand them and eventually machine polish them, however It's still a work in progress.

Which is just what I did Trev.
A sanding block with wet and dry, then the discs then T cut and then the 3M polish.
I was at it for around 2-3 hours and reckon they could still do with another polish.