windshield cleaning tips
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Melting Slicks
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From: Northern Calif
windshield cleaning tips
Any help on this? When I clean the w/s it looks terrible. As you know, it is rather hard to get to it due to the slope and length of the dash. Any special products/cleaners used that help?
Instructor
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From: COLUMBUS OHIO
Originally Posted by knkali
Any help on this? When I clean the w/s it looks terrible. As you know, it is rather hard to get to it due to the slope and length of the dash. Any special products/cleaners used that help?
Melting Slicks
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From: Northern CA
Originally Posted by Gman in NC
I know what you mean. I have found the best things to use are an automotive glass cleaner and wrinkled up newspaper.
Be sure to just use black and white newpaper. The color stuff can c use smears.
Burning Brakes
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From: Plymouth MI
I bought a device at Murrays that has a triangular shaped headpiece on about an 18 inch handle with different replaceable pads designed specifically for cleaning the inside of windshields. Can't remember the name but saw it in an ad and went and bought one. Other auto stores should have it or something similar.
Pro
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From: Henderson Nevada
get that glass clean....
first you need to use a microfibre cloth, second a cleaner with NO ammonia, and third NO terry cloth towels as they leave lint and the soap you use to wash them in the mach NEVER wash's out, hence when you get them wet with cleaner the soap come out again and smears. as far as inside the windshield glass I use a 12" rake handle hooked to a squeegie then flat wrap the fibre cloth around it and secure with rubber bands...works great. Let me know how this helps you...robert
Melting Slicks
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From: Heaven, for the climate; Hell, for the company
I don't have any particular cleaning fluids to recommend, but have you tried a car window cleaning wand? It's a plastic stick (like the handle on those gas station windshield cleaner things), about 20" long, with a swiveled plastic pad on the end. The pad is a hard plastic triangle about 5 - 6" each side. It comes with several elasticized cloth covers that fit over the pad, or you can just wrap your own cloth over the pad -- it has a semi-sticky thin foam covering. Works great -- gives you leverage and reach to get all around, esp where the windshield meets the dash. I find it better to spray stuff on a pad and apply, to avoid spraying god-knows-what on the dash material, which seems to be very sensitive to chemicals.
Got it at Pep Boys -- don't have it here, so can't tell you the brand name. Comes in a flat rectangular box, about 6"x24".
(Ah, well, #5 above beat me to it -- anyway, give it a look.)
Got it at Pep Boys -- don't have it here, so can't tell you the brand name. Comes in a flat rectangular box, about 6"x24".
(Ah, well, #5 above beat me to it -- anyway, give it a look.)
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Originally Posted by own2vettes
Some guy wearing 5 overcoats washes my windshield at a stoplight as I drove home. 
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Pro
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From: San Jose CA.
Griots Garage sells this and I bought one and it helps for the inside of the hatch and inside of the windshield.
Originally Posted by Vette junkie
I bought a device at Murrays that has a triangular shaped headpiece on about an 18 inch handle with different replaceable pads designed specifically for cleaning the inside of windshields. Can't remember the name but saw it in an ad and went and bought one. Other auto stores should have it or something similar.
Racer
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From: Elmhurst IL
I use Stoners Invisible Glass with black and white newspaper and Tip for cleaning wipe north-south on outside and east-west on inside its easy to tell what side of the windshield has a smear if you get one.
Drifting
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From: Rochester Hills Michigan
Originally Posted by Vette junkie
I bought a device at Murrays that has a triangular shaped headpiece on about an 18 inch handle with different replaceable pads designed specifically for cleaning the inside of windshields. Can't remember the name but saw it in an ad and went and bought one. Other auto stores should have it or something similar.
