Cloudy and dim headlights may be reducing your night vision and safety
By David Maillie
Clear plastic headlights started seeing use in automobiles in the late 70’s and early 80’s, but didn’t receive wide acceptance until the 1990’s. Now every car manufactured has clear plastic headlight lenses. The problem is that unlike glass lenses, plastic lenses have an average lifespan of only 3 years before they start to wear and become cloudy. This results in a very unsafe condition and puts many drivers at great risk during night time driving. As featured on a recent TV news show it is becoming obvious that this is a serious problem.
When plastic headlight lenses wear due to exposure to harsh weather conditions (UV rays, extreme heat and temperature differences, acid rain (yes, acid rain affects plastic just like paint, but worse), etc…), scratches (yes, scratches from road debris will also eventually cloud the surface just like with glasses), etc… it starts to breakdown and become cloudy. At first it may be barely noticeable, but quickly it progresses just like melanoma and spreads to the entire lens enveloping it in a thick fog that actually reduces light output. There are actually people out there that must drive with their high beams on all the time just to see as their headlights have become so cloudy and dim that the regular lights are unsafe. According to the New York State Trooper Association, headlights must have a brightness that extends to atleast 115 feet to be safe and effective. Anything less than that and night time driving safety becomes compromised.
According to the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety, upwards of 90% of the vehicles on the road have some degree of lighting or illumination blockage due to these compromised cloudy headlights. That means 9 out of every 10 vehicles on the road are causing greater risk of an accident for both the driver and other drivers that may not see them as well due to poor illumination. It is also fact that a large portion of serious night time accidents occur due to improper vision and illumination due to bad or cloudy headlights. Most states have safety inspections required on a yearly basis and most of these do have a illumination requiement. Sadly, most do not follow through or even check on this very important part of the safety inspection. If more states took this seriously, many more cars would fail the required inspection and as a result have their lighting and illumination fixed so it would then pass and be safe once again.
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If you were to just take a look around at a local shopping mall or just even at passing vehicles, you would see many that are clouded, hazed and basically at a much greater risk of causing an accident. So, what is one to do to stop this from happening or to fix it if one has cloudy headlights? Well, you can buy replacement lenses at your local car deaaler and it will cost you an arm and a leg. The average price for a pair of replacement plastic headlights is over $500 and that is excluding the added costs of instalation and labor. That is a very expensive fix. There is another way. Headlight repair and restoration. Yes, MDWholesale.com has a federally patented headlight repair kit that will take a cloudy, yellowed plastic headlight lens and restore it to new again. This kit has been thoroughly tested and proven to work. It is in use by numerous government agencies, police departments, emergency and fire departments, etc… This kit will help in several ways:
1) It will improve illumination so you can avoid road hazards better at night. This will obviously improve safety both for the driver in question and others.
2) It will save the consumer a lot of money over replacements. The average pair of replacement headlight lenses is over $500. The cost of this headlight repair and restoration kit is under $15. It is easy to do and does not require a mechanic or automotive knowledge to do.
3) It will also improve the look and resale value of your vehicle. It is a proven fact that the better your car looks the more people are willing to pay.
So, seeing that properly operating headlights are extremely important to your night time driving safety and that you can now save big money by repairing and restoring your cloudy headlight lenses to new again it is a no brainer to get the kit from MDWholesale.com and have greater piece of mind. It is also important to note that the kit is also very useful for warding off this eventual wearing of the headlights on newer cars that haven’t started to show signs of wear yet. Article provided by MDWholesale.com headlight cleaner, headlight restoration and headlight repair.
