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How it works

How Pete restores headlights.

Three steps on every car. Sanding takes the yellow off and leaves the lens frosted. The ceramic UV coat is what turns it clear, and what keeps the sun off it.

  • Prep mask and check
  • Sand the yellow off
  • Protect ceramic UV coat
A real phone video from one of Pete’s jobs, five seconds, no sound. The gloved hand is wiping the ceramic coat onto a freshly sanded lens. Cropped, nothing else.

The three steps

What happens in your driveway.

  1. A Honda Fit headlight masked off with blue painter’s tape before sandingPete’s photo

    01 / Prep

    Mask it off and check it.

    Pete washes the lens, masks off the paint around it with painter’s tape, and checks the haze is on the outside. If it is not, he stops there and you pay nothing.

  2. A freshly wet-sanded headlight lens, evenly frosted, on a silver carPete’s photo

    02 / Sand

    Take the yellow layer off.

    The lens is wet sanded through finer and finer grits until the yellow layer is gone. It comes off the paper evenly frosted. That is normal. Sanding alone never makes a lens clear.

  3. Pete’s gloved hand wiping a ceramic UV coat onto a sanded headlight lensPete’s photo

    03 / Protect

    The coat is the job.

    A real ceramic UV coat goes on last. It turns the frosted lens clear, cures hard, and blocks the sun. This is the step a cheap job skips.

A real job, by the clock

One morning in Chandler.

The times below are the timestamps on Pete’s photos of a Mitsubishi on July 29.

  1. 7:09 AM

    Before photos

    Yellow, hazy lenses, photographed in the customer’s driveway.

    The Mitsubishi’s headlight before, photographed at 7:09 AM
  2. In between

    Prep, sand, protect

    Masked off, wet sanded through the grits, then the ceramic UV coat.

  3. 8:04 AM

    After photos

    Same headlight, same morning, 55 minutes after the first photo.

    The same Mitsubishi headlight after restoration, photographed at 8:04 AM
  4. 8:16 AM

    One last look from the curb

    The Mitsubishi from the curb after the job, at 8:16 AM

Questions

About the steps.

What actually happens?
Three steps. Prep: Pete washes the lens and masks off the paint. Sand: the yellow layer is wet sanded off, which leaves the lens frosted. Protect: a ceramic UV coat goes on, turns it clear, and blocks the sun.
Will sanding hurt my paint?
Pete masks off the paint around each lens with painter’s tape before any sanding starts. You can see the blue tape in his job photos.
How long does it take?
About an hour for a normal pair. Bad ones take longer and cost the same.
Do I need to give you power or water?
No. Pete brings his own.
Who does the work?
Pete. He does every job himself.

Next step

Get your headlights clear again.

$149 for both lenses, in your driveway, in about an hour. Book a slot, or call or text 480-270-4679.

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