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Headlight polishing is a demanded service, which every responsible car owner uses every 2-4 years. It allows you to restore the efficiency of the car optics without replacing or repairing it.
Polishing plastic headlights
For the manufacture of auto optics, modern manufacturers have long been using plastic. It has better performance than glass and is cheaper to maintain. However, there is a minus in it: over time, the plastic becomes cloudy. Rubs, chips and scratches form on it, under the influence of UV rays, it loses the transparency of the upper layer, which oxidizes into a cloudy coating. Together, these factors significantly reduce light transmission, and worsen the appearance of the headlight.
You can avoid such phenomena in one way: order a protective polish for car headlights.
It is performed using abrasive polishes, and at the request of the owner with subsequent varnishing, and can significantly improve the optical properties of the car. The headlights gain transparency, the light stream they generate becomes clear, and its brightness increases. Thanks to this, traffic safety increases, and an additional "bonus" is the beautiful appearance of the car.
Headlight polishing for lenses
The service of polishing the headlights under the lenses is also popular among car owners. It is ordered when installing lens optics on a car and can be performed in three variations:
· partial (only the place under the lens is polished);
· complete (the entire surface is sanded / polished);
· curly.
Fog Light Polishing (PTF)
Fog lights are made of glass. Although it is less prone to scratching and abrasion than plastic, polishing the fog lights is also necessary.
It is performed using sandpaper and polishing pastes. Unlike plastic, it necessarily includes the application of a protective layer of acrylic varnish on the finish. It allows you to replace the factory protective film that is removed during grinding. Otherwise, the PTFs will quickly fail.
Inside polishing
When using xenon light, a permanent dimming layer forms inside the headlamp. To remove it, the headlights are polished from the inside with preliminary dismantling. A feature of this processing is its high complexity and labor intensity: with internal polishing it is very easy to break the fragile surface of the reflector and ruin the headlight.
Types of polishing
· In the standard version, the headlights are polished as follows:
· the headlight is being prepared (includes washing, degreasing);
· processing with an abrasive paste is carried out, eliminating headlight defects: dullness, small and large scratches;
· a polishing compound is applied to make the headlamp transparent;
professional polymer paste is applied to compensate for headlight defects at the "jewelry" level.
Such polishing, as a rule, is carried out in the absence of deep scratches and chips on the headlight (most of them with a car mileage of up to 50,000 km). If available, the headlamp is deeply polished using an abrasive nozzle with a grain size of 600-4000. The cost of deep polishing of headlamp glasses, respectively, is higher than usual, but such processing allows you to eliminate even very serious surface defects.
Headlight protective polish
To prolong the polishing effect and protect the headlamp from external negative influences, a protective polish is performed. It provides for the application of a protective varnish on the finish in several layers. It allows you to protect the headlight from yellowness and minor damage. The service of varnishing is especially recommended for vehicles with a long service life or serious damage to optics: in conditions where the factory protective coating is broken or missing.
Booking
In addition to varnishing the headlights, another way to protect them is to apply a special film. With its help, an effective barrier is formed that protects the optics from scratches, cracks and chips. After processing with a film, the headlights are qualitatively protected from mechanical damage provoked by gravel, sand, etc.
The armored film can be applied to both new and re-manufactured headlights.
