Polishing windshield
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From: Cape Coral FL
Polishing windshield
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
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
Drifting
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From: Sloatsburg NY
Oldtimer
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
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
Burning Brakes
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From: Orono, Ontario
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.
Let's see what comes up in this thread.
Heel & Toe
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From: Freehold NJ
Windshield scratch repair
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
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
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Drifting
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From: Olmsted Falls Ohio
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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
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
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Safety Car
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From: Taildragers rule! USA1
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.
I'd rather have the scratches.
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glass scratches
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.
Drifting
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From: The heartbreaking shame of pink stars Kentucky
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.
Drifting
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From: Bay Point California
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.
Burning Brakes
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From: North Topsail Beach NC
Pledge is also widely recommended for cleaning and restoration of clear vinyl boat windows.
Burning Brakes
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From: Wichita Kansas
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.
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From: Taildragers rule! USA1
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.
Le Mans Master
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From: Pittsburgh suburbs Pa.
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.