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Old 07-13-2016, 03:03 PM
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Looks like a made a mistake here. I polished my DRIVER side view mirror with special glass polish and my 3" orbital buffer with a special glass polish pad. Looks like new. Did the same on the passenger's side but found out that apparently it's made of PLASTIC, not glass. Scratched it up pretty bad. Don't make this mistake!
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Good to know, thanks for the heads-up!
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Tough way to learn about that, but thanks for letting us know.
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Fortunately the mirror is still usable and it would only get noticed during a judged show.
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Bummer, thank you for sharing
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I have restored many a plastic headlight lense due to scratches, UV damage, etc - any reason why you couldn't try the same thing on this plastic lense? Wetsand with a very fine grade, then cut and polish?
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I have restored many a plastic headlight lense due to scratches, UV damage, etc - any reason why you couldn't try the same thing on this plastic lense? Wetsand with a very fine grade, then cut and polish?
Well, the mirror on the passenger side appears to have an optical coating that mirrors glass. Once I started with abrasive, that was fine for regular glass, it just started wearing out the optical coating, damaging it permanently.

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