Windsheild Scratch

[MichaelS-10]

I'll tell you the more I try to keep my black truck clean the worse it gets now to top it off I am always crazy about keeping new wipers refills because they are get worthless in the Florida sun...So anyway when you use Rain-X its great except I think it doesnt help the wipers slide real well. I am driving thru a hurricane downpour and I hear this scratching noise come to find the track on the middle of the wiper blade broke and the wiper is making contact with the winshield and puts a light scratch in winshield the whole length of travel (luckily I heard it and shut off the wipers and just drove down the interstate with the Rain-X altho I really needed the wipers too) any way to remove the scratch I have tried jewelers rouge its seems to go away until the glass gets wet and it comes back...I am definetly mad

[V6MaroFL]

I've read if the scratch isn't too bad you can use something with acetone in it, like finger nail polish. Not sure how well it works but its worth a shot.

[MichaelS-10]

I think it has to be polished out there must be a product out there hey where are you in Florida?

[MichaelS-10]

oops I see Tallahasse sorry

[V6MaroFL]

Yeah I go to FSU so in a month I'm moving back there but for now I'm in Fort Pierce which is about an hour above West Palm.

[MichaelS-10]

I see I live in daytona

[DDM]

Keep doin what your doing with the rouge the hit the spot with metal polish, works great on glass for whatever reason.

[Dragonmaster13]

you can use regular body wax as well to get it out for a while. It usually works for about two months

[xtremespeed]

Someone rubbed up against my drivers side window of my car or something and put a big patch of scratches in it a couple yrs ago. I used that Meguire's Scratch X stuff and tried to buff them out with that and it worked really well, just was too fine I think and I got tired of rubbing. But depending on how "light" it is that would work or a slightly lower "grit" compound. And this would obviously be permanent.

[MichaelS-10]

I was thinking of using my 10" buffer/polisher with regular wax and maybe try some Scratch Out you know i donr want to make matters worse!

[Scott01]

I remember seeing on TV that someone makes a glass polishing kit that will remove fine scratches..Saw it on the Mothers Car show on ESPN.

[xtremespeed]

I installed windshields one summer in highschool, and a buffer and compound is what we used to take out scratches religiously. I forgot what the compound was we used, but that's a good idea if you use a fine enough compound.

[MichaelS-10]

cool see if you can remember the compound I want to start out real fine

[xtremespeed]

I think it was something like cerium oxide powder..?? We used the generic bulk stuff, but it's made for windshields. There's supposed to be a certain type of buffer for glass too, but depending on how deep the scratches are I would just do it by hand. Like I said also, the Scratch X is VERY fine and worked on my window buffing by hand. Hope this helped..

[xtremespeed]

One more thing, don't worry too much about using something that's too coarse. I can't imagine any compound that is safe for use on a vehicle's finish being able to hurt your w/s.

[MichaelS-10]

thanks I'll go to it and get back with results

[xtremespeed]

any luck?

[MichaelS-10]

I think the jewelers rouge worked the best and then I also buffed with some Meguiers #2 polish
now to the next problem
I have a problem with windsheild wiper chattering I have tried everything new blades different brands etc I sometimes think its the RainX that does it so I took off RainX waxed my windsheild and it still does it its annoying. thats how come the refill broke one nite and scratched the windsheild any sugguestions I just put on new blades 2 weeks ago I am thinking off taking some sandpaper to the rubber I mean they do not streak it must be the shape of the windsheild is there a way to back off the wiper arm pressure? Its annoying as hell I like the RainX so I dont have to use the chatter wipers!!!

[MetallicA]

Hey saw you had some scratches...same here, but I cant get mine out....also im in west palm beach...so i know how those refills wear out quick - heres a great fix for your w/s scratches


if you have full coverage insurance -

call your ins. company and say a coconut
fell on your w/s and you ARE ALREADY AT a glass repair shop
or just goto the glass shop and they will stick a new w/s in your truck and bill your insurance company - i know a guy who replaces w/s and he said you have to have FULL coverage and just go there and they do it - your ins wont ask any questions

[MichaelS-10]

Its ok now i have full coverage anyhow
we'll see the damn chattering wiper has buffed it iout I think some one told me to get Bosch wiper blades and chatter will stop I 'll have to so

[2k2Xon20s]

Anyone else got anything to remove glass scratches? I focked my windsheild up bad today with a scratch pad. I mean bad. I have a $500 deductible so insurance isn't a good solution for me.

[2k2Xon20s]

Quote:

Originally posted by xtremespeed
I think it was something like cerium oxide powder..??

http://www.xkms.org/JC-Whitney-13/Ce...ing-Powder.htm

that's it man. CERIUM OXIDE POWDER. it says an 8oz jar will do 25 scratched up windshields. hope it fixes my shiot. damn i can't wait for that to get here. thanks man.

[BigE441]

I am a detailer and we use some of glass welds products. They work really well but it makes a bit of a mess. dont know if they will sell to general public though.