About Brad

Brad is the founder of NextGen Headlight Solutions and a headlight restoration professional with years of hands-on experience restoring headlights, refining restoration techniques, and helping both professionals and DIY customers achieve better results.

Hands-On Headlight Restoration Experience

Brad's experience comes from working directly on vehicles and dealing with the challenges that vary from one headlight to another, including stubborn factory coatings, severe oxidation, sanding techniques, surface preparation, and clear coat application.

Over the years, Brad has also documented his work extensively on the YouTube channel, StartRestorationHeadlights, now Headlight Restoration Academy, where he has published hundreds of restoration jobs, step-by-step techniques, troubleshooting advice, and other real-world examples of the headlight restoration process.

From Experience to Education

Brad's experience restoring headlights eventually led to the creation of Headlight Restoration Academy, an educational platform dedicated specifically to the headlight restoration industry. Through the Academy, he teaches restoration techniques as well as the practical knowledge involved in starting and operating a professional headlight restoration business.

About the Content

Articles written by Brad for NextGen Headlight Solutions are based on hands-on restoration experience, real customer questions, product knowledge, and situations encountered while restoring headlights.

His areas of experience include headlight oxidation and factory coating removal, wet sanding, surface preparation, clear coat application, restoration troubleshooting, and understanding why certain makes and models can be more difficult to restore than others.

The goal is simple: provide useful headlight restoration information based on actual experience, not generic automotive advice.