safe on all glass
RainX is it safe?
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Doesnt really do much for the top in my experience, and I've used it religiously for years. I wouldnt put it on the rear or side windows either, only the windshield.
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From: OBAMA IS HITLER
Originally Posted by vader86
Doesnt really do much for the top in my experience, and I've used it religiously for years. I wouldnt put it on the rear or side windows either, only the windshield.
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Not sure. Owners manual says not to use anything with "rubbing alcohol" which is ethyl alcohol. Can cloud the top. Don't know this for sure but could also weaken that thin layer of coating on the acrylic tops.
Funny thing, because a detailer I know told me to use on all glass a 25% mixture of rubbing alcohol and water, so I actually had to go out and buy a bottle of it. I'm very careful not to get any overspray on the top. I just use Meguiar's wax on it.
Funny thing, because a detailer I know told me to use on all glass a 25% mixture of rubbing alcohol and water, so I actually had to go out and buy a bottle of it. I'm very careful not to get any overspray on the top. I just use Meguiar's wax on it.
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From: Database Error Indiana
Originally Posted by Hot Rod 90
just curious, what would be the problem with using it on all the glass not just the windshield?
I found this out in the lanes trying to dial in.
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From: OBAMA IS HITLER
Originally Posted by MinnesotaWhite
And once you start...it's difficult to stop.
If you don't keep putting RainX on the windows become cloudy and blotchy and you can't scrub it off.
If you don't keep putting RainX on the windows become cloudy and blotchy and you can't scrub it off.
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Rain x safe? Don't drink it.
Does it work? Well sorta, the steep angle of the windshield is a big factor in rain runoff. But rain-x will cause the rain to run off much faster, problem is you have to appling it and its a pain in the azz to do. A good set of wipers is a easier way to go.
I never bother with it.
Does it work? Well sorta, the steep angle of the windshield is a big factor in rain runoff. But rain-x will cause the rain to run off much faster, problem is you have to appling it and its a pain in the azz to do. A good set of wipers is a easier way to go.
I never bother with it.
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From: SCMR Rat Pack'r Charter Member..Great Bend KS
Originally Posted by MinnesotaWhite
If you don't keep putting RainX on the windows become cloudy and blotchy and you can't scrub it off.
I don't use Rain-X, I use Armour-All. It beads water just as good as R-X, and doesn't turn your fingers yellow. It also doesn't harm plastics OR cloud windows.
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From: Global Warming My Butt
Originally Posted by Hot Rod 90
THIS is good enough reason for me to avoid the product. just about anything thats difficult to reverse is enough to run me off (i have that classic "commitment" problem). thanks for sharing
So I have a Mazda Protege5 for my daily driver, and the back window on it gets spotted up easily in a rain. So I applied the RainX stuff and if I really looked...I could reason with myself that it was better, but not much.
I kept putting it on for a couple of months, then just stopped doing it.
One day driving home at night, I looked through the rear view mirror and had a car behind me with his lights on...and the window looked all blotchy.
So I cleaned the window when I got home, and was driving the next day at night and the same blotches were there! WTF?
Looking really hard I could see a very light film on the window...and no matter how much Invisible Glass I put on or how much scrubbing I did would take it off.
I did get rid of it though...but doing another application of RainX.
After that...I road out the blotches (took a good 2-3 weeks) and the window is RainX free again.
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From: on a island in VT
Originally Posted by Hot Rod 90
its sounding to me like rain-x is another one of those funky 1970's products, kinda like grecian formula 44 
(don't ask how i know 
there was alot of wierd stuff back then 
(don't ask how i know there was alot of wierd stuff back then What's wrong with funky 1970's products?
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I thought the spray on hair was pretty cool, used to laugh my azz off as a kid watching those commercials. Funny thing is I always pictured the guy driving a hopped up van or a Corvette