Has anyone had significant success at polishing a windshield to remove or at least reduce scratching or pitting?
I have quite a few long scratches on the windshield of my two-year-old car, plus two years’ and 27,000 miles’ worth of pitting. I’m to blame for the scratching: I did it using a “bad� ice scraper when the car was only a few months old. Some of the scratches can be felt with a fingernail, but just barely.
As we all know, pits accumulate very gradually, but after a while, they subtly detract from your enjoyment of a car – at least I think so. That being said, it’s the scratches that I most want to do something about.
I know there are “serious� glass-repair products available from companies like Eastwood; they’d probably remove enough glass to eliminate the scratches, but I’d have to worry about causing distortion. I’d say those would put me outside my comfort zone.
(I found a local company that does glass polishing, but I was put off by the cost estimate: several hundred dollars. Beyond that, the company doesn’t guarantee that distortion won’t occur.)
If there’s a product I can use with my PC with a reasonable expectation of making the windshield look markedly better, I’ll give it a try. Thanks in advance for any recommendations. (Feel free to suggest pad type and PC speed. My pads are Sonus DAS, by the way.)
I have quite a few long scratches on the windshield of my two-year-old car, plus two years’ and 27,000 miles’ worth of pitting. I’m to blame for the scratching: I did it using a “bad� ice scraper when the car was only a few months old. Some of the scratches can be felt with a fingernail, but just barely.
As we all know, pits accumulate very gradually, but after a while, they subtly detract from your enjoyment of a car – at least I think so. That being said, it’s the scratches that I most want to do something about.
I know there are “serious� glass-repair products available from companies like Eastwood; they’d probably remove enough glass to eliminate the scratches, but I’d have to worry about causing distortion. I’d say those would put me outside my comfort zone.
(I found a local company that does glass polishing, but I was put off by the cost estimate: several hundred dollars. Beyond that, the company doesn’t guarantee that distortion won’t occur.)
If there’s a product I can use with my PC with a reasonable expectation of making the windshield look markedly better, I’ll give it a try. Thanks in advance for any recommendations. (Feel free to suggest pad type and PC speed. My pads are Sonus DAS, by the way.)
"Damn punk kids!! Luckily they only smashed my windshield."