What am I doing?

[JoFotoz]

X2...

It won't take much longer to go ahead and sand the whole thing. Then polish and clearcoat and you're good to go for another ten years of sparkly, maintenance-free headlight bliss. The key is protecting them with a good UV resistant clearcoat. If you don't, you'll be re-doing the job in a couple years.

I havent clearcoated, but a good all over sanding with 1500 wet & dry..
....although kind of scary at first (cloudy / hazy mess!) is IMO the way to go
to remove original coating.

Follow this with a good mechanical buffing (drill/sponge buff pad)..
...using liberal amounts of Mequiars "PlastX".

We did two VX's a couple of weeks ago...took about an hour.
Mine had been done 3 years ago, the other VX, never.
They both look like new.

After this...15 mins with the buffer and PlastX every year
will keep them pristine

Jo

[SlowPro48]

Yeah that'll work too! I'm just lazy I guess. I'd rather spend an hour on three coats of clear (most of which is cleaning the gun) and not have to think about it again for a long while than spend 15 minutes every year polishing. Definitely agree on finishing up with 1500 grit. Makes the polishing go much quicker....