{"id":1831,"date":"2016-11-25T01:26:19","date_gmt":"2016-11-25T01:26:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.specr53.com\/blog\/?p=1831"},"modified":"2016-11-25T01:26:19","modified_gmt":"2016-11-25T01:26:19","slug":"mini-headlight-restoration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/diy\/mini-headlight-restoration\/","title":{"rendered":"MINI Headlight Restoration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re on the fence about using one of those restoration kits or not, then check out these photos. For about $30 and a half hour of your time, you could save several hundred dollars. You may still need to replace them eventually, but you can probably buy yourself a couple of years before incurring that expense.<\/p>\n<p>Take your time to mask off the trim before you begin and only use a minimum amount of polish or you will make a huge mess.\u00a0 Keep the lenses wet as you sand, and trust that the product will work as advertised.\u00a0 It can be a bit disheartening to see how clouded the lenses get before the final polishing step. The results, however, are pretty dramatic. Be sure to use the final conditioning lotion\u00a0at the end.\u00a0 Think of it as sunscreen for your newly polished lenses. One <a href=\"https:\/\/www.specr53.com\/store\/car-care\/83-sonax-headlight-restoration-kit-405141.html\" target=\"_blank\">Sonax kit <\/a>will restore two sets of headlights.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/IMG_2326-e1478571946172-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-1834 alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/IMG_2326-e1478571946172-1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"img_2326-e1478571946172-1\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/beforeafter.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-1833 alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/beforeafter-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"beforeafter\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/IMG_2836-e1479237922289.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-1836 alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/IMG_2836-e1479237922289-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"img_2836\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re on the fence about using one of those restoration kits or not, then check out these photos. For about $30 and a half hour of your time, you could save several hundred dollars. You may still need to replace them eventually, but you can probably buy yourself a couple of years before incurring &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/diy\/mini-headlight-restoration\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;MINI Headlight Restoration&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1832,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7,14],"tags":[140],"class_list":["post-1831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-diy","category-mini","tag-headlight-restoration"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1831\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}