After seeing Joshp14's tailights, it inspired me to buff mine.

I went out to Sears and bought a Craftsman buffing kit which included 3 buffing pads (loose), emery compound, tripoli compound, white rouge, and red rouge.

I first applied the tripoli to the buffing pad, and started buffing them. After that, I wiped the lights off...and buffed with the white rouge. Then I buffed with the red rouge. Etc etc. To get some of the haziness out, I then polished them with Eagle One Aluminum polish on a rag. This made the tailights shine very bright...but there were still some fine scratches.

So for the final step, I wax them using Meguiars Gold Class wax. Here's the pics- HERE

 

Those are absolutely beautiful, I'm almost tempted to pull off my rear blackouts just so I can polish my lights. Very nice work.

 

Ughh sorry about the pics being down. Damn Angelfire

They should be back up soon

 

Holy ****. That first pic actually made me exclaim out loud! Those look about twice as good as mine, which I just wetsanded and used some rubbing compound on. Awesome job - makes me want to go to Sears.

Sweet.

-Anthony Helton

 

That looks SWEET. Too bad i got like 15 cracks in my tail lights

 

Thanks for the compliments guys.

In the first pic, in person you can actually read the sign. That house is about 200feet away. I wish that pic was a little better, but the sign says "Dead End".

 

Wow! The pics finally loaded... they look awesome. Probably the best looking tail lights I've ever seen.

 

Looks good. ...but still not as good as mine.

Have you thought about using plastic polishing compound instead of using all sorts of different compounds?

 

HEY! LOL j/k

Yeah I though about it, but I already had all those compounds laying around from my aluminum polishing, and some ideas popped into my head....then one thing led to another

 

Hey joshp, what procedure did you use to do your tailights? Your tailights look awesome tunedport :hail:

 

Looks good.

I have to polish mine every few months cause they dull quickly.

 

can you polish blackouts the same way?

 

Look better than new

 

Simply beautiful..how much was the polishing kit?

 

I beleive it was around 12-15 dollars.

I used a Craftsman drill when buffing.

 

Sweet, looks like my Sears card will finally get some use.

 

My method and pictures can be found by clickinghere and scrolling down the page.

I bought my plastic polishing compound from Eastwood.

 

those tail lights look sweet... if i wasent so lazy i would do mine too. lol

 

they look pretty damn good

 

Dang...I'm gonna get in the running and do mine, too...I have nothing but time on my hands....why not make the old taillights look as good as yours! Say, my center section has some warps in it, any ideas on how to straighten it out? Thanks

Looks awesome, guys!!!

 

Last question, then I'm off to Sears. You meantioned you used a Craftsman drill? I'm assuming there are some polishing attach ments I can buy that match up with the kit you bought?