I did a tail light mod that made me feel like I spent hours doing it, but it only took me an hour. I just used plastic buffing compound from Eastwood Company and a buffing wheel. It took out ALL of the scratches that dulled the tail lenses. It looks sweet now and it is sooo smooth. Check it out; 'before' picture is on the left, and 'after' picture is on the right.

 

Nice work. Some good old rattle can clearcoat works for me.

 

very nice!!

 

Chrome polish works well too, especially if you're doing it by hand. It's a bit more abrasive, so it takes the scratches out faster. But, the plastic polish is nice to finish with.

If you've got a buff, then you're probably better off sticking to the plastic polish for all of it. I'd like to do my IROC lights with a buff, but I'm afraid it'll take down all the edges. Doing it by hand didn't give me results as good as what you have, but it definately helped.

 

I have a spare set that I was going to sell, and I spent about 3 hours hand polishing them. I used 1000 grit sandpaper to surface them, then finished them off with normal car polish. They look like glass, like the ones pictured.

 

worked fine here, too

 

What is the cost of the Eastwood polish? That looks good.

 

Freeze- you should sand down those letters that collect wax on your lenses. It takes about 10 strokes with 400 grit wet. Then rebuff or resand and you cant even tell that they existed.

RU-QUIK- The plastic compound is $6 for a 13 oz tube. Doesnt sound like much but you use very little, so it will last for A LOT of tail lenses. Unless you already have a buff wheel, those are like $5 for eastwood. stock # from eastwood is 13138 for the compound.

BTW, the pics that i have above are not even close to doing those lenses justice, you will freak when you see the difference. It look so awesome. It gets rid of all of the scuffs and scratches on your lenses. You will be so thankful and cocky when you are finished

 

Your taillights look great. I have been thinking of doing the same to mine. good job

 

i encourage every one to do this. it took me about an hour for all 3 pieces and i spent less than 15 bucks! do it man, you will not regret it.

 

Looks great, are you going to put it into the tech articles? Could you post one with them on the car?

 

is it possible to polish the IROC tail lights as well??? if so post some pics and directions...

 

looks damm good
biker

 

Here are some better pics with them on the car...

 

another...

 

and the last one...

 

Nice job guys! Does anybody have a pic of the grid tail lights off a camaro that are poloished? I would like to see what that looks like.

 

damn, those look incredible. I used the Maguires clear plastic cleaner and polish and I don't think my tail lights looked that glass-like.

 

yea the cleaner wont do it. you have to buff to take out the scratches. thats what the trick is.

 

I should have pics of my 91 Camaro lights up tomorrow, I have spent some time with them today.... Hopefully they turn out as good as the above set.

 

Do you think this plastic compound would work on my brothers 90 corvette's aftermarket lexan roof??

 

did you put the buffer in a vise to hold? man they look GOOD i definately have to do it to mine

 

That looks great.

 

what do you mean? i put the buffing wheel on my dads 8" bench grinder and away i went. the grinder is bolted to the bench.

 

can you get that plastic buffing compound at like auto zone or wal mart or something?

Ive got a set of grit lights in my 84 se that need some of that!!!! I would like to do that to my car. Ive got a bench grinder...i just need to find a buffing wheel...

Looks fantastic!

 

oh!!! i can hardly wait to get my TA lights here and polish them up, i just bought a set for my new formula project (i'll have pics tonight hopefully) My photoshop is down right now and i can't find pics of my old 86 grid tails. i polished them using a 3m plastic finishing compound and they turned out great.

 

im not sure if you can or not. I was given the recommendation of Eastwood's plastic buffing compound cuz it had been used by a buffing expert and liked it, so i went with something I knew would do i good job.

And buffing wheels, you will need either a Canton style, or a loose style. You can learn a lot from MIKE's website. just click on the link HERE and scroll down to the buffing and polishing tips...go through every article, it is very informational.

If you have any questions, email me, as Mike is kinda hard to get ahold of and a pretty busy guy, ( i sound like a freakin secretary)

 

Save the money and get some type of spoiler.

 

Save the money and get some type of spoiler. [/QUOTE]

what do you mean?

 

what do you mean? [/QUOTE]

There appears to be a lack of a rear downforce body part on Bills car, that is what he meant.

 

oh, ok, derrr on my part, i see now

 

exactly.. no offense intended, car just looks like it needs a stock spoiler of some type. The lights look sweet, but gotta have a car that can compliment it IMHO

 

I bought a standard flat spoiler that was seen on the 82-84 Trans Ams....I haven't gotten around to putting it on. Im selling the car anyway so ill figure Ill leave it be and through in the spoiler and have the buyer mess with it.

 

i would really like to know if this can be done on Camaro Tail lights

 

sorry, i dont know, i dont own a camaro. i would assume that you could. what would cause you not to be able to?

 

looks great, I did mine as well, and was surprised at the difference it made.

 

what method did you use? eastwood plastic compound? or sandpaper?

 

Damn those look amazing. Who sells Eastwood products?

 

Eastwood Company sells eastwood products....

eastwoodcompany.com

 

i know this may sound stupid but when you are using compounds the buffing wheel, now the part that is sorta furry is that where u apply the compound too? dont you have to like heat it up to get it on the buffing wheel, do you have to wipe off alittle bit at a time when you do it with a rag?

 

the buffing compound comes in a tube. you just turn on the grinder or buffing wheel or whatever you have the wheel mounted to, and then push the compound against the wheel. the friction of the wheel against the compound causes heat causing the compound to adhere itself ot melt to the wheel. after that you start buffing, wiping your piece off every now and then with a rag. is that the answer you were looking for?

 

Cause it isnt all clear..........