Clearing glass scratches

[bronkwonk]

Has anyone found a way to polish a windshield? Time leaves fine marks, wiper blades leave trails, sand and other stuff in the air can eventually pit the glass. If you have a way of dealing with this problem, I'd like to know. The old glass in my F-150 and B-II are better than my daily drivers that are only a few years old.

 

[rookieshooter]

Moved to this forum to get more views.

 

[delexploder]

Eastwood has kits but its not cheap

 

[MONMIX]

The best CLEANING method is #0000 steel wool. It wont get rid of significant chips and scratches, but it does an amazing job. More than you would expect.

Use the #0000 steel wool dry. Go in straight lines ( up and down or across, which ever you prefer ) you will feel it drag until its clean then it will slide smoothly, that is when you know its done.

 

[BigRondo]

Never thought about using #0000 steel wool on the windows. I used to use it to clean the chrome on my '65 Skylark and it worked awesome.

Going to have to give this a try.

How well does it remove water spots?

 

[MONMIX]

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How well does it remove water spots?

kinda awesome.

 

[BigRondo]

kinda awesome.

Thank you Sir.

 

[wood1]

Has anyone found a way to polish a windshield? Time leaves fine marks, wiper blades leave trails, sand and other stuff in the air can eventually pit the glass. If you have a way of dealing with this problem, I'd like to know. The old glass in my F-150 and B-II are better than my daily drivers that are only a few years old.

Yup, I have polished scratches and rubs out of windshields. You use a hard felt buffing wheel and various grades of polish. You are removing material when you polish (same as anything else) and this will cause distortion when you look through that area so it's not a great idea to do it in the main viewing areas.

Pitting and sandblasting only catches the polish and makes things look worse.

One other thing, it is extremely time consuming. You can spend a couple hours removing a couple scratches in an old windshield. I'd only do it if it was a perfect piece of glass with one or two small scratches that wouldn't be in your vision all the time. Otherwise, wait until it needs replacing...

 

[Melvin174]

well I don't think so its easy as you are saying because its not a child play to remove scratches completely from windshield or glass because you can reduce them with these all products. But I think the easy way to replace that glass or part.

 

[bronkwonk]

Looking at all the responses (thanks for so many ideas), and having used a scratch remover paste years ago (unsuccessfully), I think I'll just wait until one of the logging trucks or turkey transports I get behind from time to time kicks up one of the rocks the highway people leave and takes out the glass. Over the years it has happened more than once (the last time was the second day my wife had her new car, two cars ago), but it does happen! It's a lot more effective.