How To Clean Car Lights

The lights of a vehicle are often underestimated, however, the lights of the car are one of the most important active safety elements that exist in a vehicle of these characteristics.

The headlights of a car are not only useful for driving at night, but they have many more uses that we may not be aware of, but that we constantly use for any situation.

One of the uses of car headlights is to notify other drivers that we are going to carry out some type of action, for example, with the turn signals to warn that we are going to make a change of direction or with the emergency lights. to warn that we are going to make some kind of unusual stop, that is, that we did not expect to stop and we have made it as an exceptional option.

Among other uses of the headlights of a car we have driving at night and in dimly lit places such as tunnels (where we are forced to turn on the lights) and we also have the possibility of warning other drivers of situations due to the use of headlights. the bursts of light

There are also several types of lights in circulation, such as low beam, high beam and position lights, which are used to warn other cars that we are driving (they always come on together with another type of light, with exceptions such as parking in crossings or towns that are not well lit).

Now that you know how important the headlights of a car are, you will know that it is also necessary to maintain them well, being one of the most important things that they are clean.

Clean headlights are up to 50% more effective than dirty headlights, something you’ve already seen that can save your life.

I am going to show you step by step how you can clean the headlights of your car, something that you will do very easily.

What do you need to clean car lights?

• A polisher.
• Glass polishing liquid.
• A rag.
• Soap and water.

Instructions for cleaning car lights

1. First pass with soap and water: When we are driving, especially if we have driven on country land where a large amount of dust has risen, we will have noticed that there is a lot of dust embedded in the headlights of our car, something that also happens in the rest of the parts. What we are going to do first is to make a simple pass with soapy water, rubbing the headlights with a damp cloth with soapy water. This will remove the most superficial layers of dirt from the car, something that will improve the luminosity of the car by up to 20%. Surely if you had known this information before, you would have cleaned the car headlights before.
2. Drying: Once we have wet and cleaned the car’s headlights, it is time to do something that seems obvious but that we sometimes forget, that is, to dry the headlights. The drying task is very important, since the headlights are in contact with electricity and, as you already know, water conducts electricity, especially if it has soap. Another reason to do it is that if we let the soap dry, without having dried, its remains will remain in the lighthouse and the remedy will be worse than the disease. To dry the headlights, we are going to dry it with a dry cloth, until there is not a drop of water left in the headlight.
3. Polish: Many people would be satisfied with having cleaned the headlights with soap and water to remove surface dirt, however, at doncomos.com we always want to go one step further than the others and this time we are going to polish the headlights to also remove the dirt scratches and the most encrusted dirt of it. For this we are going to use two materials, a glass polishing liquid and a special glass polisher. First of all, we are going to pour glass polishing liquid over the entire surface of the headlights, until it covers them correctly, now we are going to take the polishing machine and with great care and smoothness, we are going to use it on the surface of the headlight so that it is be polished. Follow the natural shape of the headlight until the liquid has done its job and you will see how the headlights have recovered their natural luminosity.
4. Final touch-ups: Now that the car light is polished, we must take one more small step, which is to give it a final touch-up in order to remove any remains that may have been left over from polishing. To do this, we take our dry cloth again and we are going to rub a little on the surface of the headlight, which we will see as it has been as if it had just left the dealership. Now all you have to do is repeat all these steps in this tutorial on how to clean the car lights with all the lights in the car, both the front ones and the back ones and without forgetting the fog lights.

Tips to clean car lights

• Car wash: Some car washes also offer a headlight polishing service, something that will allow you to do it with greater precision.