How to Clean and Restore Your Headlights With Toothpaste

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clean and restore your headlights with toothpaste

How to Clean and Restore Your Headlights With Toothpaste

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Step 1 of 7

Wet the headlights with water

Step 2 of 7
Add a fair amount of toothpaste across the headlights

Add a fair amount of toothpaste across the headlights

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Rub the toothpaste all around with the damp cloth

Rub the toothpaste all around with the damp cloth

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Rinse with water and dry it off with paper towels or a clean cloth, preferably microfiber.

Rinse with water and dry it off with paper towels or a clean cloth, preferably microfiber.

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Voila! You save $20-$40!

Voila! You save $20-$40!

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Good as new! Sorry, not the same car but the pics were too dark.

Good as new! Sorry, not the same car but the pics were too dark.

Step 7 of 7
Any toothpaste will do, though, it would be best to get any whitening and teeth polishing toothpaste.

Any toothpaste will do, though, it would be best to get any whitening and teeth polishing toothpaste.

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19 Comments
Supplies

1 damp rag

1 clean microfiber or paper towels

1 tube of toothpaste

Water!

A Tay

Cool beans. Worked great. Thx for the advice.

A Tay 4 weeks ago

Tony Nguyen 👈

Sorry to hear, Richard. How about the headlights?

(author) 2 months ago

Glenn Hole

Lots of elbow grease too.

Glenn Hole 2 months ago

Richard Keenan

I followed Tony's recommendation and there wasn't any change to my car's fog lights.

Richard Keenan 2 months ago

Darrell Adams

Cant wait to try this......as soon as daylight arrives here! Will let you know!

Darrell Adams 5 months ago

Glenn Hole

However, the guide works. One workshop wanted $65 to do this work.

Glenn Hole 5 months ago

Glenn Hole

Totally worked. Took 5-10 minutes on each headlight. They were very cloudy before I started, and now they are superbly clear and powerful. Just had a big melt of the snow in calgary today, so they got covered up pretty quick

Glenn Hole 5 months ago

Sindee Stevens

I wanna try this but ill have to wait its 2:35am I need to go to bed soon :/

Sindee Stevens 5 months ago

Tony Nguyen 👈

Awesome

(author) 5 months ago

Glenn Hole

Will try this tomorrow. The headlights are pretty cloudy on my Camry. I'll let you know how it goes.

Glenn Hole 5 months ago

Popuri Choudary

It was awesome

Popuri Choudary 5 months ago

Sumit Sood

Tried it! Works perfectly! Headlights good as new now :) thnx

Sumit Sood 5 months ago

Tony Nguyen 👈

😎

(author) 6 months ago

Jared Dodson

This totally worked! Thanks for the guide!

Jared Dodson 7 months ago

Tony Nguyen 👈

Awesome, I wish I knew this before buying the actual restoration kit.

(author) 9 months ago

Jerry Freeman

I've done this and posted the instructions on the app as well. It does work.

Jerry Freeman 9 months ago

Ali Mk

Sure I'll do, but my peugeot head lights are really deposited with dense white materials... I wanted to change them many time recently...It would not be so strange for me if doesn't work to them ;)

Ali Mk 9 months ago

Tony Nguyen 👈

Let me know how yours turn out!

(author) 9 months ago

Ali Mk

I hope it works !

Ali Mk 9 months ago

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