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Posted: Tue May 23, 2006 11:02 am 
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If you only sanded it with 1200 then its going to take a lot more work to get them shiny. The finer the paper the less polishing you will need to do.

You should be able to find 1800 or 2000 paper in auto paint shops, Supercheap, repco, auto bahn etc.

Finish it off with plexus it is specifically for plastic.

 

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Posted: Tue May 23, 2006 7:48 pm 
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Cheers, lads. I'll be up earlyyyy tomorrow to fix this mess up.

 

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Posted: Tue May 23, 2006 7:57 pm 
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dont mean to saound silly but you did use water too didnt you?

 

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Posted: Tue May 23, 2006 8:10 pm 
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dont mean to saound silly but you did use water too didnt you?


Yep mate, lol.

Just to confirm. After I had sanded (w/water) with the three grades of sand paper, I was cool to just rinse off the milky crap left behind right? I did that, tried the light, applied my turtlewax, let it dry, then I buffed it out.

Now my original, untouched headlights looks quite good, and the one I tried to make better looks F**k worse! lol.

 

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Posted: Tue May 23, 2006 8:34 pm 
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hmm interesting. i would of thought 1200 would of turned out reasonable. probably take a fair amount of work as said above though. maybe the scratches arent all out.
im sure the 2000 grit should take care of it though.

good luck with it.

 

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Posted: Wed May 24, 2006 1:38 am 
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Can anyone tell me where they have managed to find plexus, i have asked around a few auto stores and none of them have every heard of it and after 6 months the lights are yellowing again so gotta do them again. wanna get this plexus s**t

 

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Posted: Wed May 24, 2006 10:40 am 
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http://www.mulford.com.au/content/locations.htm.

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Posted: Wed May 24, 2006 11:18 am 
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I found Plexus in our local Bursons. Do you have Bursons over there?

 

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Posted: Wed May 24, 2006 9:30 pm 
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nah, we dont have bursons..

always wondered what the hell that was when you guys talked bout it

cheers igley... that 5 mins from here ill take a look on the weekend.

 

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