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Lemon/Baking Soda on headlights might work, but the acidic properties of the lemon will leave headlights worse than before. Clean with alcohol and then a wax to prevent oxidation or acidic stains
Oh ya I have one for ya! I fixed a rear bump cover with a basket ball 🏀 👍🏽.
My wife backed into a pile of frozen snow smashing in the corner of the bumper cover. I put a deflated basket ball inside the bumper pumped it up and it popped it right back out 👍🏽👍🏽.
That bumper hack is a legit hack i did it yesterday with hot water and pop it right out
Using 5 minute crafts has to be cheating
ah 5 minute crafts… my favorite content farm full of fake "hacks".
The lemon and baking soda for the headlight video is terrible! Just looks at the headlight! It's not hazy or anything, they actually put something on it that dried to make it look hazy! You can CLEARLY see it's fake and this doesn't work in real life. It's one of those 5-minute hack videos that are just complete garbage lol.
But that guy who spray painted his car and was sanding it down could have saved a TON of time and money. All he needed was some WD40. I lived in a bad area in a big city for a few years. My car was spray painted several times by kids vandalizing cars. Just spray a bit of WD40 on a microfiber towel and scrub the spray paint with it. It comes off fairly easily. Won't damage the factory paint either. Way better than trying to sand it off and risking damaging the cars actual paint and clearcoat!
The toothpaste trick works great for rental cars …..
Toothpaste Hack is Legit. Tried tested and trusted. Only one thing wrong there. It only works on white cars (no other colour) and only pure white toothpaste.
Ramen/Noodles is a waste of time rather scrape off all the rust and fill in with a metal sheet (spot weld it to the rest of the fender), then use body filler to cover up and make it look good as new. (that is if you can't find a replacement fender).
That colour matching guy is amazing, it's a pity that colour matching by eye is a dying art in automotive painting