Plastic X any good on milky foglights?

[Alfa]

Hi i've just had a damaged fog light replaced on my car and it looks brilliant, crystal clear like glass.

The problem is it makes my other one look all milky. So how good is plastic x? can i expect to get it looking like my new one?

I try get some pics up soon of the two.

[Ghettocivic]

As long as the fog light is plastic it should be able to improve it. Ive had great luck with it and old headlights.

[Alfa]

Good point as long as its plastic best check first, headlights are plastic so chances are fogs will be.

What's best way to do it?

remove from car or is it easy enough to do in situ?

The fog light is only small about size of a tennis ball and is in a recess bit of plastic.

[2000]

plastix is great, but to get really great results it will take alittlte elbow grease. If the light is easy enough to take out that would probabaly make it alittle easier on you. if your patiant you'll be amazed at what you can do with plastix.

[soonercivic]

if you have a PC or some type of buffer you can take it out and hold it lightly in some vice grips so it wont move and buff it out. I did that for my dads taillights on his truck. Came out perfect.

[Alfa]

no buffer, looks like hard old elbow grease.

[soonercivic]

still try some vice grips or something of the sort. It will be really hard to do if you have to hold it in your hand.

[Alfa]

good point

thanks for the advice

[scrub]

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I just followed the directions on the bottle. Good luck!

[Rick]

It's worth a mention that there's a possibility the fogginess is on the inside of the housing, then polishing the outside won't do any good. I talked to a guy who does all sorts of plastic stuff, apparently Supra's have problems with the insides fogging so he has a setup to bake them apart and he polishes the insides and out for them and can make the set look brand new. It's still deffinitely worth a try with PlastX. If it's on the outside and plastx doesn't do it you can still wet sand and polish out the housings and make them look brand new.

[Buellwinkle]

Most headlight are not plastic but lexan/polycarbonate which is much harder than plastic lense uses on rear tail lights and such. Something like PlastX may work but only with a buffer. Personally I use my rotary with 10" loose cotton buffing wheels and some plastic rouge.

http://www.caswellplating.com/buffs/images/loose.jpg