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So I purchased my car back in the spring. My windsheild has a half moon shape scrape probably caused by debris under the wiper blade. The right side of the half moon is more noticeable and deeper.
I bought a glass repair/polish kit off Amazon and thought I would give it a try.
Pretty straightforward to use, the kit came with 2 polishing pads, an adapter for your drill and a bottle of polish. I used a right angle drill attachment to make life easier. Put a couple of dabs of polish on the pad and start polishing away. After a few minutes I did notice that the right side of the scratch did lighten up but not the left...so I kept on polishing, stopping every few minutes to wipe clean see progress and add more polish.
The polish splatters everywhere so if you are going to attempt this put down towels. After about an hour I had enough, the right side of scratch is significantly less noticable, the left side is still there but lighter.
So didn't get rid of the scratch but looks better than before. Spent $30 bucks for the kit.
I have about a million little scratches on my t-tops. Would you recommend this kit to remove the scratches or should I just look to buy different t-tops?
Don't discount the advantage of a new windshield. Scratches and cracks are one thing, but old windshields covered in pits can be a real pain to see out of. A new windshield is crystal clear. Food for thought for anyone debating between the repair or replace choice.
Yeah, the haze on my windshield is pretty bad. Its time to replace it even though its not cracked. The gel layer between the two glass layers is separating, and you can see a kind of checkerboard fog effect. It's noticeable even without polarized lenses.
Problem is no place wants to touch it because of the rust around the A-pillar.
So I have to yank the glass myself, sand/prime/level///etc.... Then have someone come to install a new windshield.
They all love too talk about "oh we can't warranty that". Well that's fine. REPLACE IT ANYWAYS and void the warranty for wind noise and leaks.
Getting the windshield out isn't too bad. I'd probably skip the specialty knife if I were doing another. Or get a better quality knife than the one from Harbor Freight. I used a combination of the windshield knife, and a couple different stiff scraper/putty knives that I sharpened, and a couple utility knife blades to cut the urethane I could get at. It's time consuming, but once the job is started, you can kinda wedge something in the gap to give a bit more room to cut the rest of the way around. The beauty of removing a junk windshield is that you can't hurt it. I got mine out in one piece, it had several cracks when I started and I chewed up the edges of the glass a bit, but one piece. Scoring it and snapping it into 1/4s so I could stuff it in the garbage dumpster made a much larger mess.
I had a '88 GTA in Naples, Florida when I built Lambo replicas and the windshield was pretty bad hazed and scratched up on that one. I was going to replace it until my paint/body guy there in our shop used a high speed buffer with rubbing compound and then buffed out afterwards with Hand Glaze. After that it looked like I had replaced it! I will be doing that same thing soon to my CrossFire '83, it isn't as bad as the TransAm was.
09-08-2019, 07:07 PM
