So cleanning the lens on my JDM lights will only go soo far since it is physicaly worn from the sun and very noticable. My question is, where can I buy a SiR/JDM lens for a 96-98 civic? Im also looking to get it new not used.

Honda Only sells the whole housing in which they dont sell the lens itself. The whole housing is 200$ per. That is wayy too expensive and its not SiR or JDM nor do they even offer the SiR to start with.

Damn shame the lens are plastic. Had they been made of the same type of glass as the windshield then this problem would never arised but, its an economy car that wants to be extra light. I would still perfer an aftermarket option to replace the plastic lens with a glass lens. Yea it would be a little more expencive to produce a glass lens seeing that it needs to perfectly fit around the housing but, hell the benefit of it not wearing out to the fast degree of plastic to heat, rays. Damn plastic cracks soo much easier than the windshield glass. Even tinyyy scratches allow moisture to seek its way into the housing clouding it.

My previous truck had some pebbles and rocks hit the windshield from constantly ridding behind Trucks transporting lots of rock. Although heavily cracked from the outside, the inside was still flat with no air entering the inside.

 

Go to any mom and pop auto shop, they should be able to order it new for you. If you want glass, consider a conversion. I think BMW has some glass headlights, and those would fit without too much modification. It's all in how much you want to spend.

 

Glass modification on a 96-98 civic with BMW lights? I never heard that before

If the mom and pop store and order it then some online store has got to have em. Its just what store.

 

wetsand it with 400grit, then polished up with rubbing compound. mines came out like brand new.

 

400 grit will scratch it easily and look worse than new

Your the first person i heard say to use 400. Everyone I read said to use 1500 or 2000 and dont rub hard.

 

holy crap, ur right, :chuckles: i was thinkin of something else. i use 1000 and 1200, wetsanded, then polish with rubbing compound on a buffer, came out new.

 

What is the real difference between a SiR/JDM lens and a USDM one? (apart from possibly the DOT stamp)

I know the JDM headlights are dark but that is due to the trim and not the lens.

 

You may want to go as far as wet sanding it with 2000. I done mine earlier today. Whatever you do, dont use acetone. Maybe fingernail polish but not straight acetone. Yeah the acetone will clean the yellow stuff off but then it starts to eat the plastic and your lenses will be more fogged up than before. I finally got mine looking decent. First I had to use 600 to fix the plastic that the acetone funked up then I worked my way up to
2000 and wet sanded. You will really start to see a difference when you use the polishing compound. I used both the 3M stuff and the Meguiars Plastx plastic cleaner and polisher (Meguiars a little better). They came out better than before but they are not perfect. Tommorow I am going to use the buffer I bought from Wal-Mart maybe that will help a little bit. I would suggest you to use the polish first before you started sanding anything maybe to save yourself some trouble.

 

Its not fog at all. The grime I can take off with sandpaper no problem but, if you rub your finger over the lens you can easily feel the physical wear from the sun. No amount of buffing is gonna fix that.

My only option is to replace the lens and noone knows where to get it. I really doubt some hole in the wall store that sells fany rice parts is gonna have connections over what I'm able to find on the net.

 

The buffing did work they turned out looking almost new.