CorvetteSPAZ

Has anyone had experience polishing the windshield? I've always had windshield wiper marks before I got the car, replaced the windshield wipers a long time ago, but wanna make the windshield glass clear again.

Can little windshield wiper scrapes (can't be felt by your thumb or nail) be polished out with rubbing/polishing compound without too much trouble?

Regards,
Mason

Sonny71

I'd try Clay Bar first, see if that removes some of it.

LedfootLarry

I have tried polishing out my windshield, all the compound does is fill in the pit marks temporary. There has to be an industrial product available, as glass is polished when the lenses for telescopes are made. But , I assume it would be a real heavy duty abrasive.
Let's see what comes up in this thread.

LedfootLarry

Clay bar does not work, it only removes high spots,
Not abrasive enough.

Mickeyrx70

I asked my trim & auto glass shop guy awhile back and he wouldn't recommend it; often resulted in distortion he said.

bjones7131

I tried to polish out some pretty nasty wiper marks on a windshield on an old truck I had and it looked worse after my attempt.

Ed Prov

Visit gtglass.com or eastwood. Both have scratch repair
solutions.

pickleseimer

There are several products made to polish auto glass. I've used the one from Autogeek on my C5 using a PC XP polisher after claying the glass. I didn't have wiper marks so I can't say anything about this product's ability to remove those, but the glass came out looking better.

ztheusa

Any "polishing" will just remove glass, the same thing an optometrist does when she makes glasses. There WILL be distortion. How much is in direct proportion to the amount of glass removed.

I'd rather have the scratches.

chipscvettec5

I use the Mothers Quik Detail Spray and it works great for me; better than Windex or other similar products.

TWO5GPA

I used very fine steel wool (0000) and then rainex. I had seen a video on youtube for windshield cleaning. Worked great for me. Crystal clear.

wheelman1944

This may sound dumb...but I've tried it on my eye glasses on the advice of a tech at the eye drs. ....pledge....plain ol pledge furniture polish.... May not work.... But sure won't hurt....its a miracle on eye glasses though.

xdmikey

I would try this one first.

I, too, have wiper marks. I thought I was the only one who's previous owner rather wipers without a blade in one!

kybilt

I had good results using compounding polish to clear up a wiper streak. It was down at the base where only visible from the outside. Seems to me that the glass in the windshield is softer that the paint.

pmurray

Maybe try RainX or a glass wax. This may fill in the scratch and make it less noticeable.

torchredmadness

I had a glass repair tech come out to my house to repair a rock chip. He did a pretty good job on the chip but he recommended a new windshield one of these days due to the excessive pitting. He is right. When the sun hits the window at a certain angle the windshield is a mess. Thousands of little dots. Almost like paint overspray. I know it's not because I tried scraping the entire windshield with a razor blade. Didn't change a thing. My windshield is pitted. One of these days I'll change the windshield.

Marine One

Pledge is also widely recommended for cleaning and restoration of clear vinyl boat windows.

crazystevex

Guy I bought my last truck from cleaned the inside with Pledge....I had to use Plastix polishing compound to remove the perminate milky white streaks etched into the plastics on the insturment cluster just to see the gauges. I would suggest keeping that stuff in the house and away from your cars.

ztheusa

That was not caused by Pledge,

bj1k

You would be better off to just man up and buy the new windshield. Buffing something that deep usually just causes distortion or overheating the glass will crack it. The money not spent on buffing supplies can be put toward a new windshield.