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Got Yellow or Cloudy Headlight Lenses?
Can’t See the Roads at Night?
Want Us to Restore Your Vehicle's Yellow Headlight Lenses?
Call for an Appointment Now!
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Prayer and a Bucket now can restore, clean, polish, and clear those cloudy, yellow plastic headlight lenses at your location without putting more money into the car manufacturer's pocket.
We restore headlights to like-new condition by taking off the top layer of oxidized plastic. This can be achieved through polishing, wet sanding, or through the use of chemicals.
Auto manufacturers would rather you go to them for a headlight repair (charging as much as $150) or headlight replacement ($100-$1,000).
The top layer of plastic on the headlights contains a UV polymer that retards or slows down the aging of the plastic lens. So we use an ultra-violet coating to slow down the oxidation or discoloration of the lens.
Parking your car in the shade or garage, or maintaining the lens by washing, waxing, and polishing a minimum of every three months, could avoid further damage to the headlight lens.
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The cause of the yellowing is constant exposure to damaging sunlight, air pollution, dust, and other contaminants. Over time, these elements can wreak havoc on the plastic headlight lenses of most modern cars and trucks.
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In the past, automakers designed headlight lenses made from glass so they were limited in the size and shape they could produce. Since then, auto manufacturers began designing cars with plastic or poly carbonate headlight lenses. This modification mainly occurred due to changes designed to make vehicles lighter and more aerodynamic, plus plastic was by far less expensive to produce than glass. Today this plastic material is the chosen choice because it is very light and can be transformed into unlimited sizes and shapes to satisfy new car designs.
Poly carbonate has its advantages but also has its disadvantages - namely oxidation/discoloration. To the naked eye one cannot tell that these plastic lenses are actually a porous material that expands ever so slightly when it gets hot. Degradation of the lens occurs over time. Having your headlights on or being exposed to the heat of the day causes the pores to open allowing debris from the road to get in. Debris, together with a combination of environmental factors such as the sun (UV rays), smog, acid rain, car exhaust, and harsh chemicals used to wash you car can cause the plastic headlight lenses to become oxidized.
Plastic oxidation leads to lens discoloration, which transforms new, clear, bright, shiny plastic to a dull yellow tint that appears to be foggy, hazy, or cloudy. This process (oxidation), as described above, not only becomes an eyesore but also is unsafe. Because of the degradation of the plastic lens, less light passed through resulting in diminished visibility during night driving. The car owner either had to deal with these cloudy yellow, oxidized headlight lenses posing serious safety issues or purchase expensive replacement headlights costing hundreds or thousands of dollars.
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As you can see in the image above, the surface of the headlight becomes chipped, rough, and yellow from wear and tear over the years. All you need to do to restore the look and clarity is remove that layer. This not only helps make the overall appearance of the car look much better, but now that more light can pass through your lenses, safer at night as well.
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Headlight restoration is actually a necessity today because it is a safety issue. It has been well documented by safety industries that dim headlights have played a serious role in major car accidents.
By maintaining proper light output of your vehicle's headlights by simple maintenance and by restoring headlights many of these accidents could be avoided.
Many consumers neglect there headlights until it is too late. Many consumers are not aware that their cloudy foggy headlights could even be repaired, because the majority believe that the faded yellowish appearance of their headlights is because there is damage to the inside of the lens. That is a huge misconception of the general public of the "cloudy" headlights only a small few have damage to the inside of the lens.
Note: moisture on the inside of the lens cannot be restored by this method.
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