windshield polishing?

cmplaya · 09-24-2017, 09:49 AM

is there any glass coating or any other reason not to polish the windshield, rear window, etc of our cars?

Billfitz · 09-24-2017, 10:42 AM

The only coating on it would be one you added. I use Aquapel.

John in VA · 09-24-2017, 08:29 PM

Griot's Garage has a number of glass products - a glass clay (any fine clay will probably do the same job), fine glass polish, and glass sealant. Adam's also has a glass sealant that is impressive (compared to Rain-X, which I've used for decades). My one experience with Aquapel didn't blow me away - no better than Rain-X & didn't last as long as touted.

cmplaya · 09-25-2017, 10:42 PM

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Originally Posted by John in VA

Griot's Garage has a number of glass products - a glass clay (any fine clay will probably do the same job), fine glass polish, and glass sealant. Adam's also has a glass sealant that is impressive (compared to Rain-X, which I've used for decades). My one experience with Aquapel didn't blow me away - no better than Rain-X & didn't last as long as touted.

i have a bottle of cerium oxide glass polish and griot's glass polishing pads...have both a dewalt rotary and flex orbital. just wanted to make sure there was no special outer coating from the factory that i should be aware of before doing anything

Soul_Glo · 10-01-2017, 12:34 PM

CarPro ceri glass is great with some reylon pads. If you use a buffer go easy as you don?t want to overheat the glass. As for hydrophobic coatings there are so many to choose from. I had Gtechniq on mine. When the windscreen was replaced I used a coat of collinite 476 wax and it worked a treat for a few momths.

Mbeans · 10-20-2017, 09:39 AM

Wish there was a way to remove all those tiny specs of road damage from the windshield. Quite a lot over the years.

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