Re: Headlight refurbishment steps
Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2017 10:48 am
I've submitted a fact sheet adding in some more detail and thoughts based on feedback 

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BongoBongo123 wrote:That looks great I have a 21 year old old car as well as the Bongo and do the car each year with T-Cut restorer as you say the clean up it does not last for very long and I have to do it every year at least to keep them clear and keep the pattern ok for the M.O.T. so a nice find. Good share.
bongolow wrote:I've just done mine with the Autoglym kit. Almost identical to the 3M kit and identical results. £24.99 from Halfords but you can get it a bit cheaper on ebay. Yes, a bit daunting at first but very satisfying when you see the results..!
Edit - bloody Photobucket, I'd forgotten I had my avatar on there...
Great to see you posting on here after all this time bongolow - i often wonder who amongst longstanding BF members still has their Bongobongolow wrote:I've just done mine with the Autoglym kit. Almost identical to the 3M kit and identical results. £24.99 from Halfords but you can get it a bit cheaper on ebay. Yes, a bit daunting at first but very satisfying when you see the results..!
Edit - bloody Photobucket, I'd forgotten I had my avatar on there...
Id be interested in this as well as I'm looking to make up cupboards over the sink / hob in our side conversionmikeonb4c wrote:Great to see you posting on here after all this time bongolow - i often wonder who amongst longstanding BF members still has their Bongobongolow wrote:I've just done mine with the Autoglym kit. Almost identical to the 3M kit and identical results. £24.99 from Halfords but you can get it a bit cheaper on ebay. Yes, a bit daunting at first but very satisfying when you see the results..!
Edit - bloody Photobucket, I'd forgotten I had my avatar on there...
Soneone was i think trying to find your drawings/templates for Bongo cupboards/lockers the other day and found the link from a thread on here no longer worked. Did you ever do a factsheet?
I've saved a copy (I think they are yours - a 13 page PDF of drawings plus a couple of folders of photos?) so let me know if you can't find them and I can forward....bongolow wrote:I think I've still got the drawings and photos somewhere. They were hosted on my ntlworld webspace but Virgin pulled the plug when they took over. I'll see if I can dig them out and find somewhere to host them. I try to avoid my current webspace for message board links as I'm usually near my bandwidth limit towards the end of the month.
Brill. Would be great to post them to Ian at Bongo Fury for putting in the members areajimmo62 wrote:I've saved a copy (I think they are yours - a 13 page PDF of drawings plus a couple of folders of photos?) so let me know if you can't find them and I can forward....bongolow wrote:I think I've still got the drawings and photos somewhere. They were hosted on my ntlworld webspace but Virgin pulled the plug when they took over. I'll see if I can dig them out and find somewhere to host them. I try to avoid my current webspace for message board links as I'm usually near my bandwidth limit towards the end of the month.
Great! Glad it worked for you toosamuel wrote:Thanks Mitchelln. Excellent post. I ordered the 3M kit and the results are absolutely brilliant. I now have crystal clear headlight lens.
One of my lens was actually brown and I thought only a replacement lens would be any good. But thankfully your post gave me the courage to go for it. I say that because the first stage of the process turns the lens to white! The 3M instructions are excellent though. I spent quite a bit of time on the final polishing and now have crystal clear lens like yours. In fact they look like new!
My advice to anyone in the same situation is go for it. The result I reckon is great value for money at £21.10 off ebay.
My avatar shows 'Bong' a Mk1 which of course has glass headlights and is still in my ownership after 13 years. We recently purchased a Mk3 'BongTu' which of course has the acrylic lens. So no I haven't done this job on glass!