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Subject:Re: Cleaning Headlights
From:Per Lindgren
Date:Thu, 29 Oct 1998 16:05:47 -0800

This is a very nice tip, but NEVER use your fingers or ANYTHING to wipe the chrome,
as you would scratch the chrome very easy, taking the very highest shine off the
chrome, thus reducing the output of yuor headlights. BTDT! :-(

PerL
88 Syncro

Roy O. wrote:

> Hats off to whoever (whomever?) suggested swishing liquid glass cleaner
> (Windex)inside headlamps then using a hand held hair dryer to dry them up. Very
> clever! and it works! Now the headlamp lenses and reflectors are clean and
> shiny. With the extremely poor light pattern of the factory installed Hella
> headlamps, every little bit helps!
>
> Roy O.
> '87 Westfalia
> (till death us do part)