I don't know what is going on with my desktop. It keeps saying that my CPU and RAM are about 50% capacity, but I have spent almost half an hour trying to pull up this thread on my desktop. I posted it on my phone and wanted to fill in the details here, but Compy just wasn't cooperating.
This is the junkyard headlight before and honestly, I wouldn't have minded:
However, this is the undamaged side:
I cannot tell if mine or better or worse than Mom's, but she periodically tells me to redo hers. I have a can of spray UV-resistant clear coat for plastic in the garage, but I don't know that I used it on her headlights:
I definitely did not use it on whichever Civic headlight I cleaned.
You cannot even tell now.
All that I remember is using toothpaste. I still have the tube! If I could have found my new tripod I would have filmed it. I thought I was so clever!
I was going to use a Dollar Tree toothbrush to apply my Dollar Tree toothpaste. However, other guys on YouTube did that, and one guy scrubbed his headlight with his toothbrush.
I was just going to apply it.
Then I was going to pull out my buffer and make short work of it, but my buffer cover comes off after 1-5 cycles. I tried spraying with water, but the pad still came off too quickly.
Even though I searched for "Cleaning headlights toothpaste buffer," it gave zero results for people using toothpaste and buffers, just commercial products and buffers, or toothpaste and a washcloth--or a toothbrush.
I would have been the first!
I kept stopping to adjust the cover, but it didn't seem to be doing anything, so I scrubbed for 5 minutes with my handtowel. My washcloth would have made a better choice, but it was already wet, and my handtowel already had toothpaste on it.
Every minute either I reapplied the toothpaste or I sprayed it again, then I used the damp washcloth that I should have used to scrub to wipe it off, then I dried it with the clean part of the handtowel.
I did something:
A couple of guys said to use a whitening toothpaste with baking soda. ChrisFix said you could add baking soda if your toothpaste didn't already have it.
What about a baking soda paste?
I did a quick search and everybody mixed baking soda and vinegar or lemon juice.
Are they trying to neutralize it?
It is well past dark. I have a crazy-bright headlamp, but I need to replace 4 AA batteries each time that I use it for very long. It came with off-brand batteries, but I replaced them with Energizers, and already replaced them.
In the morning I will try the washcloth and a baking soda paste, then my clear coat.
Here I thought I needed to buy wet-dry sandpaper!
I mostly attached the splash shields Saturday night. I am going to jack my car and put in the 3 in the back.
Is there anything else I need to do before I get this car inspected?
I need to replace the shocks, but I cannot imagine the officer will inspect them.