How to make your car headlights shine: how to clean car headlights at home

The onset of the cold season means that car owners have more work to do when it comes to car care. In particular, it will be necessary to regularly clean car headlights from dirt – their condition affects the safety of the driver at a time when it is dark outside most of the day.

But how do you clean your headlights to make them shine and stay clean longer? And what will cope not only with dirty but also yellowed and faded lights? OBOZ.UA found out a few secrets.

Toothpaste

A regular toothpaste will not only clean the headlight glass from dirt but also gently whiten and polish it. Apply a little toothpaste to the headlight and rub it in light circular motions with a microfiber cloth. Then leave the paste on for a few minutes to help dissolve the dirt, then rinse off the ends with water and wipe the headlights dry.

Baking soda and WD-40

An unexpected combination of baking soda and universal lubricant WD-40 gives a very good result. Take the amount of baking soda you need and mix it with the lubricant to a paste-like consistency. This mixture will be both abrasive enough to remove stubborn dirt from the headlight and not too harsh, so it won't damage the surface. Apply the paste to the surface of the lighting device and rub it in a circular motion with a cloth. It is also better to remove the product with a cloth, after which you just need to rinse the headlight with water and dry it with a textile or paper towel.

Ready-made headlight cleaning kit

This is a somewhat more expensive option, but such kits include everything you need to restore the condition of the headlights – cleaner, polish, scrapers, wipes, etc. All that remains to be done is to follow the instructions for using the kit, and the headlight will shine like new again.

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