Turtle Wax 51768 Headlight Restorer Kit Headlamp Cleaning Restores Brightness Kit 51768

I drive a 2005 Toyota Prius and I'm the fifth owner. Not sure if it's ever had its headlights done to be honest, but as you can see, they were in a pretty bad state from when I bought it. I don't keep the car in a garage and for at least the last three years that I've owned it, it's always been exposed to the elements all year round.FIRST:Why buy this instead of the sandpaper and clear coat solution available on YouTube?If you have 1000, 2000, 3000 grit sandpaper laying around and clear coat, I think you could give that a go as there are lots of videos on how to do that method online. I didn't have any of that gear and going to the store and buying it all separately would have been way more expensive than the tenner I spent on this.THE PRODUCT ITSELF:Delivered very quickly and packaged well. The instructions are absolutely simple, plain English. There's really no making any mistakes with this as the process is also simple. Although packaging is always "optimistic" shall we say, you can absolutely believe the hype on this box: as you can see from my pics, the results could practically be on the box!The only thing missing from this kit is masking tape, but I'm not convinced you really need it anyway. If you're careful, you can do without it.As with several other reviewers on here, I actually could have got away with just applying the cream, and that took all of three minutes per headlight! As there was some ingrained oxidisation on my lights though, I ploughed ahead and did step 4 with the pads too.Once I'd finished with the pads, I actually thought I'd messed up and made the lights worse! However, I re-applied the cream and followed the remaining steps and these came up and absolute treat. Definitely worth the extra elbow grease. One word of warning: If you do use masking tape, peel it off carefully afterwards. I found that some of the residue from 'sanding' the lights with the pads dried on the masking tape and when I peeled it off, it threw up clouds of dust that stuck to the headlights while the fluid from the Lens Sealing Wipe was still wet. I had to wipe it down again quickly.DOWNSIDESThere's only one set of lens sealing wipes and base coat wipe and they don't sell them separately. I have 3/4 of the tube of Clarifying Compound left, so could scrub these lights down several times again, but I will have to buy some clear coat to seal them again in the future. Although, I could just use the cream (compound) more regularly and that wouldn't require sealant.CONCLUSIONThis is well worth a tenner if you have faded lights. It's delivered to your door, you don't need to waste expensive sandpaper on it, or buy a rattle can of clear coat and it takes 30 minutes tops to do, 6 minutes for both lights if you catch the fading early and just apply some cream. If you're selling an old car, you could probably add another hundred to the price for little cosmetic things like this: my car really looks as good as new now. With a little tyre shine too, a layman would never guess it was 15 years old!HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!

Having a now elderly 2007 Fiesta, and never having been a regular car washing type of guy (a good dose of rain does it - yeah?), even I was becoming aware of the yellowing and careworn state of its front peepers. They were even casting an insipid and yellowing light in use.On a mission I bought some Meguiars headlight cleaner from my local motosave, but that merely tickled the problem. Dispirited, I resigned myself to having less than pristine headlamps.Then I stumbled across this whilst browsing, and while I am becoming quite cynical of some of the reviews on amazon (some for different products are identical, down to the same spelling mistakes), I was seduced by the reviews and brand into investing 10 of my hard-earned pounds into buying this.Now, I won't say that it is a miracle worker, and 13 years of neglect and road attrition will not just magically disappear. In my case it took two sessions of applications, but I now wish that I had taken before-and-after shots, because with a good application of elbow grease the lights have scrubbed up much better than expected. To say I am pleased with the results would be an understatement. I am actually quite proud, considering where they have come from!So, the important thing to report is that the product works, and works well. I feel that my headlights gave it a stern test.The kit comes with all that you need, instructions, a lens clarifying compound, a lens lubricating liquid, and two small reversible sanding blocks of different grades, colours and labels. There is also a disposable plastic glove and two sealed pouches containing a base coat wipe and an anti-yellowing finishing wipe (yay!).The blocks are adequate but parsimoniously small. I would personally like to see the size increased, as they are fiddly in use. The only upside I can see for the small size is that it ensures careful control when nearing paintwork.I had concerns when looking at the size of the bottles supplied that they would run out before I could complete the task of restoring my lights, but in the event I only used around 1/4 of each bottle, so all was good.A reasonable question, for me at least, would be, "Why only one glove?!" The finishing moistened and folded paper towels are labelled as possible skin irritants, but you need two hands to unfold them!I am aware that this review is probably nearing Dr Zhivago in length, but the bottom line is that if you feel the need to renew the look of your headlights, then this has to rank as a proven product. It works, and works well.

I had some discolouration in places on my 10 year old Saab lights. It didn't seem too bad and I tried Turtle Wax headlight cleaner and sealant first which although it made a slight effect I needed something tougher so I decided to try the restoration product which is much cheaper than some of the others available to purchase.I followed the instructions and used the clarifying compound first. It made more impression than the previous cleaner and sealant but couldn't get it all off, certainly not by hand. I very intrepidity used the four stages of sanding pads with the clear fluid. This took the discolouration off but left the sanded areas worse than ever with a dull opaque finish and certainly not clear and see through. Heart in mouth time!I then applied the clarifying compound by hand and this polished the sanded areas to a clear see through look to match the rest of the lights. It took a bit of effort!It's not totally perfect and ideally an electric drill polishing mop would probably polish it much better but for a tenner and just using muscle power it is a very good kit. I can't imagine how paying over twice the price for some other kits would do any better by hand to remove ingrained oxidisation and discolouration, unless you are trying to eliminate scratches and chips which are much deeper in the plastic. I would also be wary of some of the slightly cheaper and less well known brands being able to remove and polish out the discolouration.I didn't bother with the sealant that came with it as I used the cleaner and sealant I had bought previously to see how it lasts.I'd definitely buy this kit again although I'd invest in a mop polish head for my drill to do the final stage .