Clean Windshield?
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Lifetime Vette Lover
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From: Murrells Inlet, SC
Clean Windshield?
Has anyone noticed the C6 windshield one, is hard as heck to clean like all other vettes and two, gets dirtier faster? Anyway, does anyone have a magic formula to actually clean the interior of a windshield with no streaks? 
Burning Brakes
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From: NOVA VA
Rain-X in the clear/blue bottle AND black and white newspaper.
Make sure to use a few pages of the newspaper for wet wiping and a few others for dry wiping. Crumble the newspaper pages into a loose ball.
Laugh all you want, but I bet there are some good old school detailers out here that knows that this works.
NOTE: Do not use the Rain-X in the yellow bottle. Even though labeled the same, they are not the same stuff. There was an old glass cleaner back in the day that Rain-X bought and rebranded. Its in a clear/blue labeled bottle.
Make sure to use a few pages of the newspaper for wet wiping and a few others for dry wiping. Crumble the newspaper pages into a loose ball.
Laugh all you want, but I bet there are some good old school detailers out here that knows that this works.
NOTE: Do not use the Rain-X in the yellow bottle. Even though labeled the same, they are not the same stuff. There was an old glass cleaner back in the day that Rain-X bought and rebranded. Its in a clear/blue labeled bottle.
Drifting
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From: Fayetteville Arkansas recently moved from Oakland Ca
St. Jude Donor '06
Don't recall what it is called, however, found it at Kragens. Two cloths...one green and the other is blue, come as a set for cleaning windows. You wet one, rub window, then dry with other. Unbelieveable results. Able to even clean tight area at bottom inside of windshield completely and not put rub marks on top of dash....After washing or detailing Vette I use to pay local carwash just to clean the inside windshield area. They haven't seen me in 6 months !
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Last edited by xlr8rvette; Jan 18, 2006 at 10:52 PM.
Le Mans Master
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From: Pacific Northwest
St. Jude Donor '06
Originally Posted by xlr8rvette
Don't recall what it is called, however, found it at Kragens. Two cloths...one green and the other is blue, come as a set for cleaning windows. You wet one, rub window, then dry with other. Unbelieveable results. Able to even clean tight area at bottom inside of windshield completely and not put rub marks on top of dash....After washing or detailing Vette I use to pay local carwash just to clean the inside windshield area. They haven't seen me in 6 months !
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No Streek Glass Polish
I have been using this stuff for 20+ years and NOTHING comes close!
http://www.gel-gloss.com/cat/ItemDet...cat_num=NS-016
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Drifting
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From: Denton The Lone Star State!
Originally Posted by VET4LES
My father taught me the newspaper trick back in the 50's. I have used newspaper ever since. I read an article about preparing your car for show and the author used newspaper also. 
use only the black ink portion of the news paper and a product called Perfect Glass, can be purchased at Lowes! learned about this product afew months ago in this forum. 
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I've found that a wet microfiber cloth followed by a dry microfiber cloth leaves a streak-free shine as good as any glass cleaner. Just make sure to use clean cloths and a little elbow grease on dirty areas.
Racer
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I got one of these little jewels:
http://www.autobarn.net/glm77601.html
Glass Master Pro. Makes doing the inside windshield on the C6 a whole lot easier.
http://www.autobarn.net/glm77601.html
Glass Master Pro. Makes doing the inside windshield on the C6 a whole lot easier.