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Camaro Research Group Discussion => Restoration => Topic started by: BillOhio on February 24, 2014, 11:34:56 PM

Title: Polishing glass
Post by: BillOhio on February 24, 2014, 11:34:56 PM

I have my windshield out and you can see where the wipers ran in the right light.
Anyone have experience cleaning this up or should I be looking at one of the new date coded glass.  Can you tell the new glass isn't correct and how bad does this hurt the car?
Thanks guys

Title: Re: Polishing glass
Post by: VINCE Z28 on February 25, 2014, 02:30:42 AM

Run your finger nail across the scratch if your nail gets resistance ( hangs up ) might be to deep to polish out.

Title: Re: Polishing glass
Post by: 68Zproject on February 25, 2014, 04:36:53 PM

http://www.camaros.org/forum/index.php?topic=7743.0

Title: Re: Polishing glass
Post by: Kelley W King on February 25, 2014, 06:38:55 PM

There was an article in one of the car mags about an Eastwood kit. Sounded like a lot of work on an old Corvair glass but they said the results were great. It may have been Muscle car mag.

Title: Re: Polishing glass
Post by: JohnZ on February 26, 2014, 03:47:43 PM

Those glass-polishing kits that use a Cerium oxide slurry are next to useless - they create a terrible mess, take hours and hours of work, and when you're done, you have an area of optical distortion that will drive you buggy, or a cracked windshield from overheating it.

Title: Re: Polishing glass
Post by: bcmiller on February 26, 2014, 04:35:43 PM

Bill, we need to know how bad it is.  If you run your fingernail across that area, does it catch?  First thing to try is some GOOD glass cleaner and a newspaper.

Personally, if it is not bad, and it your case it sounds like it isn't, I would leave it alone if the above suggestion does not work.