Meguiar's New 3 Inch Professional Headlight & Spot Repair Kit

[Mike Phillips]

Meguiar's New 3 Inch Professional Headlight & Spot Repair Kit


Look what Max dropped off in the Show Car Garage Studio for us to test out...


Meguiars Professional Headlight & Spot Repair Kit

Kit includes:
1 Pneumatic Mini DA Sander
1 Pneumatic Mini Rotary Polisher
50 S3320 Unigrit 320 Grit Sanding Discs
50 S3500 Unigrit 500 Grit Sanding Discs
50 S3800 Unigrit 800 Grit Sanding Discs
15 S3F1000 Unigrit 1000 Grit Finishing Discs
25 S31500 Unigrit 1500 Grit Sanding Discs
15 S3F3000 Unigrit 3000 Grit Finishing Discs
1 S3FIS Unigrit Foam Interface
2 W4003 3” “Easy Buff” Knitted Wool Pads
2 W7204 4” Soft Buff Foam Cutting Pads
2 W8204 4” Soft Buff Foam Polishing Pads
2 W9204 4’ Soft Buff Foam Finishing Pads
2 S3BP 3” Professional Backing Pads and Adaptor Kits
1 S3HP 3” Professional Hand Pad - 1 ea
1 W63 3” Professional Rotary Backing Plate
1 T18MM Professional Masking Tape .75in
1 8 oz. Meguiars 105 Ultra-Cut Compound
1 8 oz. Meguiars 205 Ultra Finishing Polish
1 Meguiar’s Black Canvas Bag
1 Professional Headlight and Spot Repair Chart

This is a very complete kit with everything you need to refinish headlights that have deteriorated to the point where only sanding can save them and/or for doing spot sanding or spot damp-sanding to remove isolated defects out of fresh paint or factory paint.




After opening the box you'll find a soft case that hold everything inside with extra pockets on the outside for other tools or accessories...





Here I've spread everything out to show the complete selection of products found in the kit...



There are two backing plates with 4 different adapters which enables you to attach the backing plate to just about every known thread size used for small air tools.




The kit comes with 2 Chicago Pneumatic Air Tools, one is a Mini Dual Action Sander and the other is a Mini Rotary Polisher and both are clearly marked on the outside housing.





The Mini Dual Action Sander
After determining the correct adapter for sander you rotate the black hub until you see a hole align with the cutout on the exterior casing.







The kit comes with a wrench and a dowel type rod with a handle.



Place the steel shaft of the dowel through the cutout to pin the rotating assembly against the housing, this will enable you to attach the backing plate and tighten the backing plate to the rotating assembly.










Now you're ready to attach the foam interface pad...



The Meguiar's 3 inch Spot Repair Kit uses hook and loop style interface, so align the loop side of the interface pad, (the side with the "M" on it), and attach to the hook side of the face of the backing plate and do your best to align so it's centered or true.




Next select the grade of Unigrit Disc you want to use and align it to the interface and press on firmly.



Here's the sander with interface and Unigrit sanding disc attached...






You're ready to go to work...

[Mike Phillips]

Re: Meguiar's New 3 Inch Professional Headlight & Spot Repair Kit

Continued...

The Mini Rotary Polisher

The rotary polisher comes with a wrench to hold the spindle assembly.



After selecting the appropriate adapter for your tool, affix it to the backing plate first making sure the washer is between the backing plate and the adapter and then thread into the spindle assembly and tighten down a 1/4 turn after snug.








Select the right buffing pad for the task at hand and then align the backing plate to the hook and loop interface and press firmly.





You're ready to start polishing...



The kit also comes with a hand backing pad for working by hand...



And also a 3" rotary backing plate...



There are two 10 ounce bottles of M105 and M205...



Everything you need for professional results...



A fold out poster is included that shows step-by-step prodedures...

[gto_don]

Re: Meguiar's New 3 Inch Professional Headlight & Spot Repair Kit

Send one this way Mike and I'll help test it out from a "Consumer/Detailer" perspective.

[Michael Stoops]

Re: Meguiar's New 3 Inch Professional Headlight & Spot Repair Kit

Hey Mike, thanks for posting this up!

As you probably know, we introduced this kit at SEMA last November but it didn't ship until several weeks ago. We did a couple of write ups on using this kit for headlight restoration and paint spot repair, but we didn't actually have a complete kit on hand at the time to show off all the cool stuff that's included with it. This post of yours is the perfect compliment to our earlier write ups on how the kit can and should be used.

[Mary S]

Re: Meguiar's New 3 Inch Professional Headlight & Spot Repair Kit

Any observation on how an electric drill attached or pneumatic drill attached method would compare to the mini pneumatic rotary and DA?

Since rotary attachments can be attached to a drill through an adapter, would this work?

The main reason I ask, there are headlight restoration kits for sale that work through drill attachment.

[xantonin]

Re: Meguiar's New 3 Inch Professional Headlight & Spot Repair Kit

Did I read that right? 15,000 RPMs? Wow!

I should get an air compressor. What are some recommended specifications for a decent air compressor?

[Michael Stoops]

Re: Meguiar's New 3 Inch Professional Headlight & Spot Repair Kit

Did I read that right? 15,000 RPMs? Wow!

I should get an air compressor. What are some recommended specifications for a decent air compressor?

That label is on the D/A sander and the rating is a no-load max speed. The tool is adjustable, of course, and under even a light load the speed is greatly reduced.

[Jimmy Buffit]

Re: Meguiar's New 3 Inch Professional Headlight & Spot Repair Kit

$320.00

You gotta fix more than a few lights to justify this...
We'll probably get one.

Who has an opinion on retail pricing?
Any guess on how many hours would be involved (for a skilled tradesman)?
I'd like to see a spray UV protectant to finish the job.

Jim

[Andrew Wilson]

Re: Meguiar's New 3 Inch Professional Headlight & Spot Repair Kit

Through our research, Meguiar´s has estimated it taking less than an hour to do both oxidized headlights.

[CHzo6]

Re: Meguiar's New 3 Inch Professional Headlight & Spot Repair Kit

I was just at a dealer today and saw they had an ad stating headlight restoration, usually $149, now just $99. At those prices you could make your money back pretty quickly!

[sontakke]

Re: Meguiar's New 3 Inch Professional Headlight & Spot Repair Kit

I feel that there are very few customers who fall for $99 headlight restoration. The people who can afford that price probably are not driving the cars with the yellowed headlights. For the others, they have many options including extremely highly recommended 3M do it yourself kits (since 3M owns Meguiar, it should be OK to state this :-), or plain old rubbing compound or the Ultimate Compound or in a pinch tooth paste or even just brasso cleaner. They all work to various degree with little bit of elbow grease (or none if you have a cordless drill :-)

Personally, Meguiar should have let 3M do the headlight repair kits and concentrate its resources on 105, 205 type of class leading products.

- Vikas

[cnfowler]

Re: Meguiar's New 3 Inch Professional Headlight & Spot Repair Kit

3M has a kit identical to the Meguiar's kit. I saw it before Meguiar's came out with theirs. It was in a NAPA Auto Parts catalog of all places. $350 for the kit from NAPA.

Colin