Headlight Restoration

Need to Know:

Headlight restoration works on cloudy, discoloured headlights.
Headlight restoration is an easy, one-hour job.
You can do headlight restoration in the driveway at home, with essentially no tools or training. All you need for headlight restoration is a $30 self-contained kit, some masking tape, and elbow grease.
To restore your headlights you don’t need to remove them from the car (we just did that for the video above).
Headlight restoration could save you thousands (think: old European prestige car). It will certainly save you hundreds of dollars compared with the price of two replacement headlamps, even on a basic car.

Here's the detail on restoring those cloudy headlights:

video, DIYJohn Cadogan18 September 2011car, diy, headlamp, headlight, light, money, repair, restoration, saveComment

How to Cut Car Running Costs

PLAN YOUR TRIPS

You know the saying ‘time is money’? With cars it’s not time, but distance, that costs you money. And that means you save 100 per cent of the fuel you would have used on trips you don’t make. You also save 100 per cent of the tyre wear, brake wear and other service-related costs.

Most Australians never really consider this – so the car gets used as a yo-yo between home and the next pressing assignment. Instead of going home-school-home-coffee-home-shops-home-school, why not try home-school-coffee-shops-home? You’ll save a significant amount of distance – which means money.

It’s more efficient to get as many things done as possible in the one outing than it is to achieve the same result via a greater number of shorter trips. Same thing applies for businesses.

financialJohn Cadogan2 January 2011car, running costs, car finances, finance, money, save mony, cut costs, low cost living Comment