Autoglym Headlight Restoration Complete Kit

Before I start this review, I have assigned this product 5 starts for what Amazon references as Sheerness. I have interpreted 'Sheerness' as the ability of the product to do what it claims. My reference for this is the Concise Oxford English Dictionary, 11th Edition. This product was purchased to undertake a repair to the headlights on my wife's vehicle that were starting to show early signs of 'lens bloom', external clouding on the top of the perspex main lights. I selected Auto Glym based on product reputation and 40+years of using Auto Glym products on all of our vehicles. I felt that £30.00 was an acceptable risk before purchasing 2 x new lights if this did not work. I need have had no such fears. Clear simple instructions, a supporting Auto Glym video, watched 2-3 times prior to undertaking the task were excellent training tools and gave me confidence to effectively destroy the surface of each headlight. I was able to easily remove the lights on our Volvo XC-60 and was able to perform this repairs off the vehicle. This helped me considerably and I felt gave me a better quality finish. It took me around 30-40 minutes per headlight working on a bench next to the car and providing you follow the instructions to the letter in terms of drill speed, use of water and the various grades of discs the end results were outstanding and much better than I anticipated. Overall a very professional crystal clear finish was obtained on each headlight. The headlights have been on the vehicle around 4 weeks and no signs of any bloom returning. Following the task I found I was able to recover the very fine grit discs and have reused them undertaking a headlight repair on a Mercedes due to a stone chip. I was able to remove the scratch completely that was in the middle of the headlight lens. It took around 20 minutes to complete while the headlight was left on the car. I don't have any before photos but in the attached images, on the white car the bloom extended from the top of the headlight lens over its complete length and down to 20% of the lens surface. On the grey car the chip and scratch damage was in the centre of the lens. As you can see, more than 4 weeks on the finish on both sets of lights has been exceptional. A great saving over a set of replacement lights. What a great product that even the least able DIYer will be able to obtain first class results. I have been looking for replacement fine grit discs but have managed to clean, wash and reuse the original sets of discs. The instructions from Auto Glym and clear simple and work but I recommend you also look at the video if you have never done this previously. Very highly recommended, an excellent product.

The Autoglym Headlight Restoration Complete Kit is a game changer that easily restores your vehicle's headlights to a factory fresh clarity, saving you hundreds compared to replacing oxidised or yellowed lenses. This comprehensive kit includes everything you need, drill adaptable backing plates, a complete range of sanding and foam discs (from P800 to P3000), a high-performance restoration compound, and a microfiber cloth. It eliminates the guesswork involved in removing years of UV damage and surface pitting. By using the speed of a standard electric drill, this kit significantly reduces the manual labour required for the restoration process. It restores crystal-clear optical transparency, giving your vehicle an instant cosmetic refresh while dramatically improving driving safety at night. This cost-effective, prosumer grade solution earns a well-deserved five-star rating.

I'm just a girl, with my boyfriends drill and this was so easy and so effective. 25 quid for under an hours work, and this will make it so much safer for me to drive now. Super super pleased. Got enough sandpads to do at least 1 more pair of headlights, and more than enough fluid.

This kit did an excellent job on my Ducato van headlamps. My only comment is that with large headlights with quite a few scratches, you will need extra 800 grit paper ( luckily I had some ) Otherwise would be 5 stars.

I don’t often write reviews. But I felt this was justified as I’m really pleased with the results. Had some fogging on my Mazda 2 headlights. See photos. Started to look online for a DIY option. Buying everything separately was going to be quite expensive. Then I came across this Autoglym headlamp restoration kit. I use some of their other products so I felt confident this would be decent and it’s surpassed my expectations. The kit comes with 800, 1500, 2000 and 3000 grit sanding discs. As well as as a drill attachment. The final step is using the polishing attachment and compound also supplied. I did two complete, thorough passes over each headlamp working my way up through the increasingly finer sanding discs. I then did about five passes with the polishing compound and polishing disc. With masking off the headlamps, working through the sanding and washing the car afterwards I would allow yourself two hours for a good finish. Top tips: make sure your masking tape is at least three or four layers thick so you don’t scuff your paintwork. Work with the bonnet up to save masking that up too. Put a sheet over your engine bay before the polishing stage unless you want to spray everything with compound like I did! After the 800 grit first stage of sanding, you will be terrified that you’ve wrecked your entire headlamp. Don’t worry and just press on. I’m really pleased with the results. They are not 100% clarity, or back to factory condition but they are at least 90 to 95% and way better than they were previously.

This is probably the best thing I have ever used. Works flawlessly, the results were outstanding and the headlamps look 100 times better. I cannot recommend enough if you read the instructions and do it right.

I mean it's okay. I have a 64 plate Golf with awful looking headlights. Not yellow but pitted and constantly looking dirty. Bought this on a recommendation. The p800 sanding sheets didn't touch them, I used 5 and achieved a small milky patch before deciding to visit Halfords and buy a pack of coarser grit paper with p180 and up. This did the job. And I followed with the kit. And hand sanded some with the pack of paper. Took a few hours, they look better, not perfect but much better. Not pitted anymore just a little cloudy in parts (probably due to my sanding / polishing skills). Also the kit doesn't have any kind of sealer. Just polish. Having sanded my lights back and polished I'm thinking now I need to protect. And that's not included. Not sure I'd buy again for the price. To be honest now I've done the job once, I'd purchase a large pack of drill compatible sanding paper, p180 through p3000 and some polish and then some sealer. I'd have gotten more, not had to spend an extra £15 at Halfords and had the same if not better results. Basically all this is, is a drill bit, some compatible paper and a small bottle of polish. Big whoop.

i don’t usually leave reviews but this kit was so good it was unbelievable, clear instructions, simple and easy to use and figure out, relatively compact, and the spinning head was metal and seemed really strong and durable, turned my faded headlights into nice and clear and almost like new, great value for money. genuinely really happy with this. photos below are before and after

Solid. Watch the youtube video.

The instructions tell you to use a high-speed drill, my lights have a plastic type surface so I opted to use arm power as wet and dry paper can remove a fair amount of surface material, the procedure with out the drill took about an hour per lens, using water different grades of wet and dry in circular motion and the fine paste. The kit did remove most of the light scratches and did bring back some clarity , but not perfect by any means even when using the fine paste and hard surface rubbing still looked a bit dull, it should be noted there is no clarifier final coat sealer with this kit , it’s basically keep sanding and polishing until it gets to the point that its acceptable , but I wasn’t keen on the drill idea so used a clarifier sealer from another product that supplied 2 sealer packs , this did the job for me and would pass an MOT or NCT. I have restored several head lights on several vehicles and it would appear to me if you don’t use a clarifying liquid for the final coat it could take quite a bit of rubbing and polishing to get a good result, admittedly you may have to do the restoration as a yearly or 2 yearly thing but its reasonably easy to do

Det är värt varje krona. Vilken skillnad. Jag är helt imponerat.. Väldigt lätt använda också.. Rekommenderas varmt.. 🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟

Funciona genial siguiendo todos los pasos. En casos de grandes daños abra que lijar con un grado menor al que incluye el kit.

Wow, de koplamen van een wat oudere Honda Civic zijn weer helemaal als nieuw geworden. Echt als nieuw!! Het eindresultaat gaf echt een wow gevoel. Zorg wel voor een goed opgeladen accu voor de schroefboormachine. Ik heb twee volle accu's gebruikt voor al het schuurwerk. Maar je resultaat wordt rijkelijk beloond!