So a little background to my story, About a year ago i got a new windshield put in my pickup, Which is nothing special, but with the truck being so old, my parents gifted me the chrome trim that wraps around the window, because it was $360 for the set, on top of the price of the windshield! The windshild prior was heavily pitted, and had lots of rock chips from what i'm guessing to be was 150,000 of probably all free way driving. So i was loving the new windshield!
One night, only a hand full of months later, i was driving home late at night, during one of our heavier rains here in the pacific northwest. As i'm doing probably close to 70, my windshield wipers came up, i heard a weird bang, thud, whack. and then a screetch as the wiper arm on the drivers side of the truck came down without a wiper. And there i was with a brand new, ruined, windshield! I pulled over as quickly as i could, until the rain slowed, and slowly creeped my way yo the closest store with windshield wipers!
At that point i was livid. I took the last 10 minutes of my drive home with new windshield wipers, to think about what i could do. And i had heard about a guy wetsanding his sunroof to remove water spots, then polishing it back to new, but this had been probably years ago. With little research, i had heard of people removing light scratches off of windshields with automotive polishes, so i gave it a shot!
My plan was to use a final stage polish, and work my way back until i saw little results, or could easily tell i needed to work my way back, to bring the glass back to clear!
As i worked my way into courser polishes i continued to see better and better results! and my scratch was dissapating in front of my eyes! once i was done, i went to wash the truck, and disaster happened.
The 7" area i had buffed with these automotive polishes, intended for polishing back from color sanding, has done something to the glass, where the water will not bead off of the polished area.
After a few days of thinking, i realized i spent the most time with the coursest polish, and very little going back over it with the finer ones. So this after noon, i worked lightly back over it, with the course polish, and i strictly followed the directions on each of the polishes' directions very closely. In doing that, i also worked the whole driver's side of the windshield as to try not to miss any areas polished prior, because you cant see anything wrong with the glass at all until you put water on it!
I know adam's doesn't have much for glass other then the sealant, but i thought this woud be an excellent place for a question such as this!
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So a little background to my story, About a year ago i got a new windshield put in my pickup, Which is nothing special, but with the truck being so old, my parents gifted me the chrome trim that wraps around the window, because it was $360 for the set, on top of the price of the windshield! The windshild prior was heavily pitted, and had lots of rock chips from what i'm guessing to be was 150,000 of probably all free way driving. So i was loving the new windshield!
One night, only a hand full of months later, i was driving home late at night, during one of our heavier rains here in the pacific northwest. As i'm doing probably close to 70, my windshield wipers came up, i heard a weird bang, thud, whack. and then a screetch as the wiper arm on the drivers side of the truck came down without a wiper. And there i was with a brand new, ruined, windshield! I pulled over as quickly as i could, until the rain slowed, and slowly creeped my way yo the closest store with windshield wipers!
At that point i was livid. I took the last 10 minutes of my drive home with new windshield wipers, to think about what i could do. And i had heard about a guy wetsanding his sunroof to remove water spots, then polishing it back to new, but this had been probably years ago. With little research, i had heard of people removing light scratches off of windshields with automotive polishes, so i gave it a shot!
My plan was to use a final stage polish, and work my way back until i saw little results, or could easily tell i needed to work my way back, to bring the glass back to clear!
As i worked my way into courser polishes i continued to see better and better results! and my scratch was dissapating in front of my eyes! once i was done, i went to wash the truck, and disaster happened.
The 7" area i had buffed with these automotive polishes, intended for polishing back from color sanding, has done something to the glass, where the water will not bead off of the polished area.
After a few days of thinking, i realized i spent the most time with the coursest polish, and very little going back over it with the finer ones. So this after noon, i worked lightly back over it, with the course polish, and i strictly followed the directions on each of the polishes' directions very closely. In doing that, i also worked the whole driver's side of the windshield as to try not to miss any areas polished prior, because you cant see anything wrong with the glass at all until you put water on it!
I know adam's doesn't have much for glass other then the sealant, but i thought this woud be an excellent place for a question such as this!
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