Another Recycling idea from Water Star Motors!
BG LenzSaver™ clears up headlights and keeps them shining bright!
Over time plastic headlight lenses become discolored and hazy. This is primarily due to exposure to exhaust fumes, sunlight and chemicals used in washing. BG LenzSaver ™ restores them to original clarity.
Problem:
The need for headlight restoration is growing exponentially. Most vehicles built after the early ’90s are equipped with acrylic rather than glass headlight lenses. Unlike glass lenses, acrylic lenses are susceptible to clouding, yellowing and fading without proper care and maintenance. In as little as two or three years on the road, headlight lenses may become so cloudy that they reduce visibility during nighttime driving. It is a problem that affects nearly every vehicle make and model, foreign or domestic.
Solution
BG LenzSaver™ Headlight Restoration removes scratches and discoloration, restores the lens to like-new optical clarity with a new UV protectant. The restoration process takes a couple of hours at Water Star Motors.
History: Over the past 25 years, the LenzSaver™ process has thrived in the aircraft industry as a reliable method for removing scratches from airplane windows.
Automotive headlight lenses are made of a similar plastic, a stretched and formed acrylic. As lens’s are manufactured, they are coated with a UV protectant and then baked and slow-cooled. As the plastic is heated, the coating is embedded in the substrate levels of the plastic. Over time the protectant degrades and the lens becomes more susceptible to the damaging effects of pollution and the environment.
The BG LenzSaver™ process restores the lens and reapplies a UV Protectant. A hair dryer is used at the end of the service, heating the lens to draw the UV Protectant deeper into the substrate levels for best lens protection.
It’s science. The BG LenzSaver™ polishes are blended in a vacuum-emulsifying machine. Under nitrogen, the particles bond in such a way that they create a homogenous product. The product is sustained in this environment and stored in a foil packet. Opening the packet exposes the mixture to oxygen for the first time. The oxygen activates the polish and then it’s ready to use.
What is crazing? Crazing is a series of fine cracks on the surface of a material, for example in the UV protectant layer. Crazing can weaken the material and the slightest amount of tension, such as a rock hitting the surface, will cause noticeable fractures.
Less luminosity: Yellowed lenses may only be shining at an unsafe 50 percent efficiency or less. Reaction times of the driver are affected by how much and how clearly they can see hazards around them. Yet this drop in luminosity happens gradually as the headlight ages, so car owners may not even notice the change. Since the time change has just occurred it may the perfect time to look at your headlights from the front and see if you are still happy with how clear they are.
The latest sampling of headlight replacement costs are $165 -$1850 from Prius to the highest end Mercedes…PER HEADLIGHT ASSEMBLY! Ouch! If your headlamps appear to be cloudy come to Water Star Motors for your LenzSaver restoration service. Only $225 for both Headlamp assemblies restored!
