Project 3P, Part 12: The Clarity! (Brand New Gauge Lenses / Fiat 128 3P Restoration)
If you remember back to Part 11 of P3P, headlight restorer does not double as 46 year old Fiat 128 gauge lens restorer. It was worth a try! Above and below: UV-damaged and cloudy A-F! As I indicated in Part 11, I consulted with The Keeper of The Cache - a well-known local Fiat, Alfa and Mercedes guru - to see if he had anything even vaguely less hazy than was fitted to my car. He didn't. However, what he did have money can't buy: knowledge and advice! According to this sage of Italian and German marques (come to think of it, he's got a bit of a thing for Citroens and Peugeots, too), the plastics used by Fiat and Alfa in the mid-'70s, just after they ditched glass-lensed gauges, were particularly susceptible to UV damage and no amount of cutting and polishing will have even the slightest effect on them. Too bad I didn’t think to ask the question before embarking on my fruitless quest! But that's where the advice kicked in: The K...