Keeping headlights sparkling

Keeping headlights sparkling

Servicing

As our national fleet of passenger and light commercial vehicles ages so does the plastic coverings of vehicle headlights.

If you ask your mates around the traps how they clean cloudy headlights, you’ll get various tips or advice from using toothpaste to applying a generous dollop of abrasive kitchen bench cleaner. Others might recommend a mixture of baking soda and vinegar.

However, Toyota Genuine Parts has come to the rescue with a useful Headlight cleaning kit.

This might all sound a bit trivial, but headlights need to be bright and clean otherwise a vehicle could well fail a Warrant of Fitness.

The Toyota Headlight kit retails for $40, a lot less than a replacement headlight unit and it is much more environmentally responsible to repolish a headlight than to replace it and send the old unit to the landfill.

Using the Toyota Genuine Parts headlight cleaning kit is easy. It consists of wet and dry sandpaper and liquid coatings which prolong the life of the headlight cover.

One Headlight restoration kit will restore a set of headlights per vehicle. The kit includes:
• Masking tape
• Sanding pad
• Two sandpaper
(coarse – 2000)
• Sandpaper (fine – 6000)
• Liquid ‘A’ Coating Agent 6ml
• Liquid ‘B’ Coating Agent 6.2ml
• Two gauze pads for application

All up, the cleaning process takes less than 30 minutes per headlight. So, your customers can say goodbye to ugly, yellowing, and less than effective headlights and hello to bright sparkling headlight covers for a few years to come.

Contact any Toyota Store to enquire.

 

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