[W126 Coupe] Ooops !! How not to clean headlights.

[John Poole]

I hope I`m not going to tell my grandmother how to suck eggs here, but today I had the front bumper and trims off the car and thought it might be a good idea while I could access them easily to clean the lenses and reflectors of the headlights and foglights. The lenses come off very easily with simple push-on/pry-off clips used to secure them. I washed all the lenses which were a bit dusty inside and hopefully will let a bit more light through now. Three of the reflectors I just wiped with a duster as they were also slightly dusty but otherwise perfect, however the drivers headlight reflector was slightly tarnished, deciding to do the job properly I thought I`d give it a good polish, applied some autosol, rubbed for three seconds, bellowed some of Mr. Heins wonderful new words as my reflector turned a rather feeble shade of beige plastic. I`m lucky in having spares from a car I stripped, but just in case you ever decide to clean your reflectors  DON`T USE METAL POLISH.
  All the best, 
  John Poole `91 560 SEC     
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