Need to Know:

1. Headlight restoration works on cloudy, discoloured headlights.
2. Headlight restoration is an easy, one-hour job.
3. 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.
4. To restore your headlights you don’t need to remove them from the car (we just did that for the video above).
5. 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: