What are cloudy, yellow headlights? Why are they dangerous? How can they be fixed?
Here are some before and after pictures of a customers headlights that I treated with the New Lite kit from MDWholesale.com - it really works that good!
Most every car you find on the road today is made with clear, plastic headlight lenses. You will not see glass headlights on cars made since the early 1990′s. This is because glass headlights break easily in car accidents and the glass shatters everywhere. The auto industry found plastic headlights to be better constructed and safer, plus they greatly add to a car’s appearance and appeal (hence they sell better if they have plastic headlight lenses).
So, obviously all manufacturers will be using plastic headlight lenses. Now, they didn’t know this when they first started using plastic headlight lenses in cars, but within a few years they were getting all sorts of complaints from customers (millions of complaints that is) about the headlights becoming yellow and cloudy. They received so many complaints that GM made an actual technical report on this.
GM and several other car manufacturers were forced to do some extensive research into this cloudy headlight problem and find out what caused it and what they could do to cure the situation. They wanted their customers happy with their cars and the last thing they wanted is for the other manufacturers to fix this problem first.
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It turned out that the cloudiness and yellowing was caused by oxidation of the plastics outside layers due to weather and the sun. Plastics oxidize and change color with exposure year round to the sun. Unless a car is routinely garaged during the daytime it will eventually get this same cloudy appearance. It;s not a matter of if, but when.
Since then auto manufacturers have come out with protectant and coatings that may add a few years at best to the lifespan of the plastic headlights. Some manufacturers like BMW, Mercedes and Lexus used more expensive lexan in the manufacture of their headlight lenses. This makes them more durable and last a little longer also, but as you can see for yourself in any Wal-Mart parking lot the sun isn’t selective. It doesn’t matter what brand of car you drive.
The sun and weather will eventually destroy the plastic on your headlight lenses. It will start off slowly at the bottom, middle or top (it depends on the size, shape and composition of the plastic headlight lenses). Then it will spread across the headlight lens. This becomes dangerous as it blocks or impedes the ability of light to shine through the headlight lens. This reduces your headlights lumens or brightness and reduces your field of vision when driving at night.
You can easily fail a yearly state safety test due to cloudy headlight lenses. Most states measure the luminosity or light output of your headlights. If you are under what the state says is the minimum acceptance level you will fail and for a reason – your car is unsafe to drive at night.
So, the problem still exists on all plastic headlight lenses. What should one due to fix this situation? Well, you can buy new headlight lenses for around $500 or more. Or you can save a little and buy aftermarket headlight lenses made in China (they are all made there). The aftermarkets have poor fit, leak water in and don’t last long. I have had terrible experience with the aftermarket headlight lenses – they are horrible.
At about the same time as the auto manufacturers were trying to find a cure David Maillie, the founder of MDWholesale.com, received a patent for automotive headlight restoration. He created a kit which restored these cloudy and yellow headlight lenses to new looking. This kit was an immediate success and soon became the most effective and best selling automotive treatment of its kind on the market (and it still is today).
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I have been using the New Lite kit from MDWholesale.com in my service bays for about 7 years now and sell it to all of my customers. The stuff works just as great today as it did 7 years ago. I have since seen numerous other products sprout up promising to do the same thing. I have tried just about all of them and none can compare to the effectiveness and great results I and my employees have obtained from the New Lite headlight restoration kit. That is how I fix cloudy headlights – with New Lite.
