Re: Not an ad: Restore yellow and fogged GC plastic headlights

John wrote:
> Fellow Grand Cherokee owners,
> I was going to fork over about $180-$300 worth of new plastic
> headlight housings for my 1999 grand Cherokee.  My old ones were a
> mess and light barely came through these nasty, yellowed, funked up
> plastic lenses. A friend of mine turned me on to Crystal View
> headlight restorer kit.  I bought the kit at Advance Auto for $20
> (cheaper than the web-site which charges $23.96)

That kit does work.  There are other options but some of them I'd
try on a junker lamp first.

http://www.carspace.com/guides/Healing-Hazy-Headlamps

Personally I wouldn't use the brakecleaner trick, but toothpaste is just a
simple mild abrasive and does work.

Good writeup from the folks at permatex.
http://www.permatex.com/documents/10.05.TheFamilyHandyman.pdf

Me, I used rubbing compound and ultra fine cutting agent, followed up with
a buffer and some clearcoat for plastic.  Still working 
well.

-- 
DougW