Discolored plastic headlights

[Bob N]

I have a 97 Subaru Legacy SUS and the lens (headlight) are pretty discolored, anyone know a good product to get rid of this. I tried tube stuff at Wal-Mart and to no avail. :confused:

[pdawg]

Here is a link to cleaning your headlight on ScoobyMods. I did this for my wife 97 OB. Works well.

http://www.scoobymods.com/forums/showthread.php?t=322

[Bob N]

Thanks, I wanted to hear from someone who has actually used something that works. I'll give it a try...

[Blaze]

I have noticed the problem on several Chrysler cars where the headlights start to get little cracks in the surface and the plastic begins to yellow. It got really bad on my wife's last car, a '00 Dodge Intrepid. I wasn't about to spend $350-500 on new headlamp assemblies...so I sanded them down to get off all the old yellowed plastic...then polished them up with some 3M liquid polishing compound. They still didn't look as good as new...but they looked a lot better than before.

After I got my LGT, the wife inherited the '01 Jeep I had....and I have noticed the early stages of the same problem on it...so I'll probably be doing the same thing again soon. Doh!

[Huffer]

That's a bloody good tip. My 98 Fogs are pretty bad too.
Has any tried this on the normal headlights? Same sort of principle, right?

And does anyone know if there are any headlight protectors available?

[pdawg]

I believe rockblocker makes a protector.