What Causes Headlights to Become Faded, Dull, or Yellowish?
Headlights can undergo this deterioration due to various factors such as oxidation, prolonged exposure to the sun, wind, carwash chemicals, and airborne acids. Additionally, areas with a high concentration of mines may experience accelerated fading, dullness, or yellowing of car lights. Similarly, headlights can become sandblasted in desert regions or when subjected to high-speed driving.
Do We Polish or Restore Headlights?
We go beyond mere polishing, we offer a complete restoration solution for damaged vehicle headlights. Our process involves restoring the headlights to their original condition and then applying our speciailised polish for a pristine finish. Our proven formula ensures that the headlights will stay new, for years to come.
How Long Does The Restoration Take?
Headlight restoration usually requires around one hour, but the duration may vary depending on the extent of the damage. In the case of highly damaged headlights, the process may take slightly longer. However, if the headlights are cracked or broken, they will need to be replaced.
Do You Only Do Home Call-Outs?
No, our Mobile Unit consists of 4 teams namely: Home Unit, Office Unit, Dealership Unit and Shopping Center Unit.
Our teams are specifically equipped to restore headlights on the go.
How Does Payment Work?
No – The scratch has already weakened the glass by causing a strain in the silica lattice, If scratched glass is subjected to impacts or stresses, it will often crack in the area where the scratch is located. It follows on from there that when the scratch(es) are polishes out, this weakness is removed and the break resistance is restored to about 90-95% of its original value.
With reference to toughened panels, Glass Polishing process does not adversely affect strength, even for toughened glass. When our technicians remove the scratch they are leaving behind a structurally sound piece of glass.
Will it work on curved or bent glass?
Yes – Absolutely, we regularly remove scratches from curved glass for our customers. Our technicians are trained to work on curved glass whether it is automotive or architectural. Our system is light, compact and can reach places that were considered out of reach previusly.
Can scratches be removed from tinted glass?
Yes, that is no problem. The tint is not sitting on top of the glass, but is part of the glass itself. Removing a thin layer, as done by the cutting process, will not at all affect the tint. As an example, most modern cars come with tinted glass right from the factory. Typically, scratches in those panels can be removed without a problem. However, some people additionally get part of their car glass tinted with an aftermarket product (film). Scratches in that film can typically not be repaired. Instead, the film needs to be replaced.
Does it create a lot of dust?
The actual polishing of the glass is a wet process and therefore does not create dust. The first few stages, however, are done with a dry abrasive. We pride ourselves to take special care by protecting all surrounding surfaces. In some instances the dust and overspray control takes more time than the actual polishing. Many of our clients have commented on how clean their premises were left.
What do you consider a deep glass scratch?
Low long is a piece of string? It largely depends upon who is talking. A glazier that only ever replaces glass would probably say that any noticeable scratch is too deep to repair. an inexperienced glass polisher would likely say that anything that catches the fingernail is too deep to repair (you see a lot of that on the internet). We generally call a scratch that leaves a ragged edge, i.e. where the scratching action has caused tiny chips been broken out of the glass. Such scratches are usually more than 100 micron deep. In a way this is fairly academic to an experienced glass polisher, because we routinely remove all of the above, as long as they are not too close to the edge. The deepest damage on glass is what is called “angle grinder splatter” or “spatter” for our British friends. That type of damage is typically more than 500 micron deep. Can that be removed? See our FAQ about angle grinder splatter.
Can scratches on eye glasses be removed?
Yes they can, by a skilled optician and not by a glass polisher or by someone using a D.I.Y Scratched Glass Repair Kit. These days optic glass is, in fact, not glass but a very specialized plastic. Even if it is actually silicate glass, it has undergone a very sophisticated manufacturing process. Do not attempt it.
Can you repair scratches with toothpaste?
It never ceases to amaze me, how many people suggest this as a solution, dozens of sites on the internet and many clients I talk to. By all means, go ahead and try it. Toothpaste (the whitish variety- not the clear stuff) contains a very fine abrasive similar to white cleansers used to clean kitchen surfaces. This abrasive in theory would be able to remove some glass and hence a glass scratch. However the sheer numbers are against you. Consider this: A fine scratch would be typically around 50 micron deep. The particle size of the abrasive in tooth paste is smaller that 5 micron. How long would you have to polish to get 50+ micron of glass off? It might be a good project for your retirement years!!!
Can you remove scratches from phone screens?
If you are going to attempt this, please be very careful. Most mobile phone screens are made from Gorilla Glass, which is not glass in the traditional sense, it is extremely thin, does not react well to heat or pressure and the inside of you mobile phone will not react very well to polishing compound or water. We do not advise that you try it.
How about DIY kits
I knew you were going to ask that. -:) Google anything related to ” glass scratches” and you will find dozens, if not hundreds of sites selling them. I have to declare our past conflict of interest here. Yes, we have sold kits also in the past – and we had may happy customers. So how about them? Yes, there is a place for them, especially if they contain abrasives rather than just a polishing paste. But, for anything large or serious, I would have reservations. You may end up really disappointed. Which DIY glass polishing kits are best?
How much does it cost?
The most important factors in the approximate order of relevance are the following
depth of the scratch
a deep scratch can be three or more times as time-consuming to repair than a light one or glass stainingthe area affected by scratching
it could be either (1) two square feet for the smallest scratch, or (2) half the panel when multiple scratches in a confined are are present, or (3) the full panel when the scratches are not in a confined areathe size of the panel
smaller panels are harder to polish than larger onesthe type and thickness of the glass panel
toughened glass is the easiest to polish, followed by laminated (if thick enough) and then, lastly, ordinary float glassGlass polishing is specialised work requiring high skill levels and it is time-consuming. It is most cost-effective on large panels where damage is confined to a limited area
Do you provide free quotes?
When you explain your problem to us we will usually give you a free estimate of the cost over the phone. IN case you accept the estimate and the technician on arrival finds that the cost of the job will be significantly above the estimate and you then decide not to go ahead with the repair, you will not be charged anything. In most other cases, if you require a site inspection and written quote, we will have to charge you a call out fee.