My Headlight Lenses are Peeling....?

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bsmith_tsu

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Or they appear to be peeling. Anynoe else having this problem? WhenI bought the car from the dealership a year and a half ago, the headlights looked like they were fogged. After purchasing the car, the dealership made the headlights look like new. Now they are beginning to look like this.

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The area that is "peeling" is dry and crusty.
 
ovrkll said:
Never seen that problem before, so don't know what to tell you...:idunno:
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+1..
looks defective to me, I wonder what chemicals they used to "make them look like new"
 
After googling a bit, I found out about "Meguiar's PlastX" - Clear Plastic Cleaner & Polish. So I drove up to my local wal-mart and bought a bottle. Wow- this stuff actually works pretty good. You can still see a fine line where the peeling is occuring, but overall I must say that I am pleased with this quick temporary fix. :)

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I would not accept anything less then perfectly clear covers.....go back to your dealer and get them to do it right :thumbsdown: .....but I like your temporary fix...still, my ass would be right back at the dealership!
 
fire-n-ice said:
I would not accept anything less then perfectly clear covers.....go back to your dealer and get them to do it right :thumbsdown: .....but I like your temporary fix...still, my ass would be right back at the dealership!
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I couldn't agree more. Nice if they did apply some sort of clear covers but not when they look like that.
 
I am on my way to discuss this matter with the dealership right now as well as my defective third break light.

I will let you know what they say.
 
After my trip to the dealership they told me that my warranty does not cover cosmetic flaws and it would be $1000 to fix the headlights. :x
And they told me that I would have to pay for the third break light as well since it's been over a year. :x
 
You can try a Micromesh kit from Microsurface Corporation, we use their kits to refinish aircraft windshields, they also have one to specifically refinish cars headlamps, I did it in my car with a good result, but we aware that you need a lot of elbow grease and a certain level of skill. After that, you can maintain the headlamps using Plastic X (very good product, I use it often)
 
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