Georgia Cost GuideHow much does headlight restoration cost in Georgia?
Headlight restoration in Georgia: typically $65 to $100+, the middle half of the figures posted by 12 Georgia detailers and tint shops, collected November 2026.
Yellowed, foggy headlights dim the light on the road and age the look of the car. Here is what Georgia detailers post to restore them, and when new headlights may be the better buy.
What headlight restoration costs in Georgia
We checked 185 Georgia detailer websites.
Headlight restoration cost
$65 to $100+
Prices from 12 Georgia detailers and tint shops
This is a typical range, not a quote. The sections below explain what moves the price for this job. The dot marks the middle price, and a + means some businesses charge more.
What the job involves
Many headlight lenses are plastic with a factory hard coat, and sun and weather break that coat down over time, leaving the lens yellow and cloudy. Restoration removes the damaged layer by wet sanding with finer and finer grits, polishes the lens clear and then applies a new protective coat.
It is not a headlight replacement. Restoration works on the outside of the lens only, so moisture or haze inside the housing, a crack or a dim bulb is not fixed by it. A new headlight assembly or bulb is a parts job, often done by a repair shop.
What moves the price
- Lens size and shape
- Large wraparound lenses on many trucks and SUVs have more surface to sand and polish than small, flat ones, so they can cost more to restore.
- Taping off the paint
- Detailers tape the paint around the lens to protect it from sanding, and lenses set tight against the bumper or the hood take more care.
- Wipe-on or sprayed coat
- A wipe-on sealant is quicker to apply, while a sprayed or cured clear coat takes more work and usually costs more.
- A trip for one service
- Headlight restoration is a common mobile job, and a detailer who comes to you may add a trip charge when it is the only service booked.
- Restored before
- Lenses restored before with a coating that has since peeled need the old coating stripped first, which adds time.
Getting a quote
Questions to ask each detailer before you compare prices:
- Do you wet sand the lenses, or only polish them?
- What protective coat do you put on at the end?
- How long do you expect the lenses to stay clear, and do you stand behind the work if they cloud again?
- Can you tell whether the haze is inside the housing before you start?
- Is there a trip charge if this is the only service I book?
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Where this number comes from
We collect these prices with our own crawler, which reads the public websites of Georgia detailers and tint shops and follows each site's robots.txt rules. It has read 185 of their websites so far. Each range is the middle half of the prices those businesses post, collected November 2026.
A price list is what a business says it charges; a cost guide is a business's own estimate of what the job usually runs in Georgia. We never name the businesses behind a range. How we collect and check car detailing prices.
| Job | Businesses that post a price |
|---|---|
| Headlight restoration | 12 (11 price lists, 1 cost guide) |
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