A pair of hazed lenses restored is $60 to $150 and takes 30 to 45 minutes while you wait. Bulbs and damaged housings are priced separately once we have looked. Jackson Heights is a straight run east on 34th Avenue, so it is a short errand rather than an outing.
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Curbside life is hard on headlight lenses, and this neighborhood is nothing but curbside life. A car parked outdoors every day of its life takes the full sun in summer, road salt spray in winter, and a constant coating of dust from a street with delivery traffic on it. The protective factory coating on the plastic degrades under that, and once it goes the plastic underneath oxidizes steadily. Yellow is the visible stage; the light loss starts well before you can see it.
What we do about it takes about forty minutes. The lens surface is wet-sanded through successive grades to take the oxidized layer off, polished until it is genuinely clear rather than merely lighter, and then sealed against ultraviolet light so the repair holds instead of clouding again by spring. Bulbs get checked at the same time, since a pair of tired bulbs behind clear lenses is only half the improvement available. If a lens turns out to be crazed all the way through rather than just on the surface, we will tell you that polishing will not save it, because that is a lens that has been left too long.
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Cars here often sit under the mature trees on the residential blocks, which changes the picture in an interesting way. Shade slows the ultraviolet damage, so some Jackson Heights lenses are in better condition than their age suggests. What they collect instead is sap and fine debris, and drivers scrub at it with whatever is to hand, which leaves fine scratches in the plastic that scatter light just like oxidation does. Those respond to the same treatment. If your lenses look cloudy but the car has always been parked in shade, it is worth having a look at, because the fix is often faster than on a sun-baked car. Shade slows the damage down; it does not stop it entirely.
Same service, same price, other Queens neighborhoods:
Usually yes, and it is common. Most kits sand the surface adequately but supply a weak sealer or none at all, so the lenses go yellow again within a couple of months, sometimes worse than before. We take the surface back properly and seal it with something that lasts. Having had a kit used on them does not prevent a proper restoration afterwards.
Wait if you like. Thirty to forty-five minutes covers a normal pair of lenses, and there are no parts to order for a straight restoration. If bulbs or a housing turn out to be needed, that may take longer depending on what your car uses, and we will tell you the difference before starting rather than halfway through.
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