How to clean tarnished Jaguar lights?

[Mart-1]

My brother has just bought himself a nice secondhand Jaguar XJR, and the 4 front lights have a milky residue on the external face, mostly located towards the top of the lights (pictures attached). At first sight it looked like condensation on the inner surface, but there's a definite change in surface texture externally

Could anyone recommend a cleaning product to get this residue off?

I don't know if the lenses are glass or a tough polycarbonate or plastic derivative, so I was concerned about using anything abrasive before asking around

Any tips?

Many thanks in advance

[Ironballs]

You could try going over with a clay bar in the first instance to see if that will fetch it off - ie if the surface hasn't been etched

[kds keltec]

Thats not residue really , more damage to the uv coating on all plastic head light lens.

here is a link to what i do with such damage

got to be the worst i have seen so far

http://www.kdskeltec.co.uk/glass_plastic.phtml

Its very common to see this sort of damage , comes from someone in the past wiping strong solvents over a panel for either a re-paint on panel or panels or before graphics and vehicle wraps applied , which inturn wiped the lights by accident , this melts the coating leaving a texture and milkiness look .

went to a large vehicle wrap company recently about future work , while there they asked my to look at there demo car which had the same problem on the lights , dont think they understood it was their own handy work which has caused this .

The fix is an abrasive cut by either compound and/or wet sand and compound to remove damage in the same way you machine correct paint work .

I bet the bonnet has been resprayed in the past, this is not just back street cheap company's i have a nice gallery of pics of such damage some being on nearly new cars which have been repaired through dealerships.

HTH kelly

[Mart-1]

Many thanks Kelly - that's really helpful, and a nice surprise to hear from you personally, given the amazing work you do. I'll let my brother know so he can decide what to do

By the way, your record of the yellow Murcielago detailing last year was epic

Thanks a lot

Martin

[kds keltec]

I am here too help really , just dont have the time to spend as long as i would like on forums thou .

this time of year the bookings pick up alot of course too , also tracy not to impressed when i spend alot of time behind a computer screen helpping out fellow members either .

kelly