We live out in the high desert with the 60mph winds, tumble weeds and dust devils.

With all this happening all the time it kinda feels like a sandblaster is being srayed all the time.

Take 60mph winds filled with dirt and drive at 60mhp into that wind and you get a sandblaster at 120mph.

Anyway.....
The front windshield has thousands of these little pits in it and I'd like to get rid of them somehow.

I've seen a product on the My Classic Car tv program a few months back and I forgot the name of it.
It restores the window to a like new condition and fills all these imperfections.

You use a standard drill and a buffing wheel and this product.
The only thing I've been able to find was in JC Whitney and I'm not so sure about it.

Can anyone suggest a product??
And no, a new windshield is not an option.

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91 Mystic Teal RS Convertible. 305 TBI, Auto, stock.
125,000 miles and still going strong.
Only minor mods planned for the near future.
Like headers, flowmaster exhaust, some ignition mods, K&N airfilter, Perhaps a chip if needed.
Waiting for the motor to blow up so I can install a ZZ4 crate motor. Let's just hope it don't blow up too soon.

 

Try www.eastwoodcompany.com they have a kit to polish scratches if they aren't too deep. To see if they are too deep run your finger nail over it, if your nail doesn't catch you can polish it out-if it does you are S.O.L.(or so I've heard)

 

I got the kit but can't remember if it was from J.C. Whitney or Eastwood. From the pictures and contents of the product, I believe them to be the same.

I got it in hopes of eliminating the fine pits and scratches I had on a flat windshield on a Toyota FJ-40 I had in 1989. I remember the directions giving a warning about not using it on some types of glass, such as the windshield, or allowing the polishing to heat up too much. Something about it releasing the surface tension. I can't remember exactly.

I wound up using it anyway. I just did not use much pressure or speed. That "surface tension" warning scared me. Didn't work as claimed, but then I probably didn't apply it like it should have been for the reason cited above.

Perhaps someone with more experience can comment. I'd be curious to know how it works if you get it, and if the warning is balogni (did I spell it right?). It's not that expensive.

I wound up going to a "car wash" place (I was in Central America) and they said they could make the windshield "like new". I believe they used a solution of hydrocloric acid. It helped a little (and that's being generous), but it certainly was not "like new".

[This message has been edited by Stuart Moss (edited August 03, 2001).]

 

Eastwood company!!!
That's it!

Thank you very much for jogging my memory.

Hmmm. on the second post though.
I know I saw them applying it to the windshield.
I'm gonna get some and see what happens and the results I get.

The windshield is not pitted enough for a fingernail to catch so hopefully it will come out ok.

I'm going to try it in a small area first and see what happens before I go ape on the entire window.

Thanks again!!

 

Be sure to come back with your results. I got a new windshield, but I'm still interested anyway.

 

The glass polishing kit is moreso for removing scratches left by winshield wipers with messed up blades. The warning is for heating up the glass and distorting it from friction heat or cutting too deep.