Windscreen scratches

[landrover598]

Can anyone recomend a product to remove scratches from windscreen glass ? Mine is covered in 100's of tiny scratches, and the current low sunlight means i cant see a thing

Any body had good results with a particular product ?

[M&S]

Yup, a bloomin great stone followed by a call to your insurance company.

I'm not aware of any products that would work on a windscreen - be interested to hear otherwise though.

[landmannnn]

A couple of decades of the wipers dragging grit across the screen will do that. You could go to Halfrauds and buy a product that claims to cure the problem, super heavy duty glass polish or something like that. If you want to waste a fiver it is as good as any other way.

[western]

visit a jeweller & ask for some jewellers rouge, if it can polish diamonds & similar then winscreen glass should be easy for it to polish up.

or by post from here

or

here

from priory polishes

It is also used in the windscreen industry for removing fine scratches from expensive windscreens

[Les Henson]

It will take forever to do a whole windscreen (or the majority of it). If you can click your nail on a scratch, then forget trying to remove it.

Les.

[Retroanaconda]

Yup, a bloomin great stone followed by a call to your insurance company.

I'm not aware of any products that would work on a windscreen - be interested to hear otherwise though.

Remember to tell them it's heated

[kkk2]

Years ago I worked for a computer company and we would remove scratches from crt (yea I know) screens with Duraglit, not sure I would tackle a full windscreen with it though however it did work on the screens.

K

[mickeyw]

Yep, I was going to mention jewellers' rouge too. However 30 quid for a screen if you can fit it yourself, it's not worth the effort/elbow grease...

[Range Rover Blues]

You can buy kits from car restoraton companies that go in your drill and polish the glass. Not everyone has the option of getting their insurance company to pay because new glass is no longer available.

I had to claim for mine, £826 they billed the insurance

[reb78]

Found this:

http://www.frost.co.uk/item_Detail.asp?productID=8109&frostProductName=Windscreen Scratch Repair Kit&catID=20&frostCat=Glass&frostSubCat=&subCatID=

Anyone used it? My BMW windscreen is a smeary mess in the rain - its spotless and the wiper blades are new, so i'm convinced its because of the micro scratches on the screen, so may have to give this a go....

[hobson]

I've also heard of brasso being used.

But, an old friend of mine works for auto windscreens and told me (ages ago) that screens had a coating on them to reflect the glare or something, apparently you can tell if you hold a sheet of white A4 paper on the inside, then look at it from the outside, if it looks bluey/greeny then it's coated.

so if you polish a screen with something abrasive, aren't you just going to polish of any coating? leaving funny looking 'white' spots?

[Turbocharger]

As Mickey says, £30 will see you right, plus a tenner or lots of swearing and string) to fit it.

[plasticbadger]

My Disco failed it's MOT on wiper scratches once. I used an industrial paint/GRP polisher (big, low RPM grinder with mop head) and some 3M finesse it compound. It worked miricles, the small scratches more or less disappeared and the deep gouges along the edge where a wiper had broken were 'softened' to a slight misty line.

I know this is industrial kit, but maybe some of the compounds mentioned above could be applied with a Halfords type paint work buffer to good effect?

[TSD]

In a hurry to MoT the hybrid, I used metallic type Tcut with a lambswool pad on a random orbit sander, to remove a fine patina of very tough overspray left on the glass from spraying grp moulds in the workshop.

The glass seemed very clear and shiny afterwards...

[Dazza65]

Yep, the scratch on my windscreen is bloody annoying so would consider a new one....but, any pitfalls or problems that might make me reconsider? I'd be obliged if anyone can advise what to watch out for

[jbs]

I've used a small amount of T cut before to get a scratch off of the windscreen-it's also great for removing any really ingrained dirt off of them too.

HTH

John

[ajh]

If you get a protective layer applied the adhesive may fill the scratches enough to make them go away. Something like http://www.clearplex.com/. I'll be putting it on mine mostly to stop rock impacts from spidering but also to keep sandblast damage down since I do plan on traveling in some hostile environments (silica flats, Dempster Highway etc).