This is article is about a recent visit to Pep Boys service center in Riverview Florida. I would love to write a complimentary article, but as you read, you’ll see my horrible visit will not allow me to. Sorry Pep Boys. First full disclosure. I haven’t always been an ASE Master Tech that sells automotive tools. I worked for Pep Boys years ago as an auto technician.  I actually started in Lakeland FL as a tech in 1990. I moved into management and was a shop foreman and then moved up to assistant service manager. I made my rounds going from Lakeland to Florida Avenue in Tampa, to Carrollwood Tampa, to Brandon Florida and then back around again. Pep Boys upper management always liked to shake things up by switching the management around. I learned a lot, however grew tired of the management style. I was next in line for the service manager’s position and had second thoughts. I like to provide excellent customer service and felt as though I was unable to in the at Pep Boys. I ended up stepping down and working as a Senior Tech again at Pep Boys, before finally moving on to CarMax in Tampa Florida in 1997. Read on to learn about the horrible experience I had at Pep Boys as a customer. Read the rest…

Summary: Headlight restoration kits reviewed for clearing up yellow hazy headlights. Restore head lights to clear condition for safety and better appearance.

We recently had a customer that owns a car wash purchase 100 of Bright Solutions Headlamp Restoration kits. This of course peaked our interest and we had to ask ourselves the question. “Why would a car wash business purchase so many of these kits?” Obviously they were impressed with the performance of the product. Pictures are worth a thousand words, that’s why in this article we’ve decided to let them do most of the talking. Below we show before and after pictures of our test run with this product .Our test subject is a 1997 Saturn with 139,000 miles on it. The headlights are yellow and hazy.

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