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Partners windscreen on her A1 is pretty scratched and it annoys me when sitting it in so I thought I'd wack out the DA and give it a polish.

Anyone recommend a certain pad / polish to do the job with a DA.
 
Oh right, not sure what to do now. I've got all the kit and to be honest it needs doing as it really annoys me.

May well give it a go, if it just clears it up a bit will be worth while.

Thanks for links mate.
 
I had someone come out to polish marks out years ago , 2 hrs , a hard pad and I think it was a aluminium oxide paste/compound.

For very little improvement.
 
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Gazwould said:
I had someone come out to polish marks out years ago , 2 hrs , a hard pad and I think it was a aluminium oxide paste/compound.

For very little improvement.
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Yep that's pretty much what the pro detailer described. I didn't bother.
 
it's very hard work, for little reward... and messy too!

the other thing to think about is, if you polish a section too much, you'll get a 'fishbowl' effect on the screen, which will be really annoying! lol

if the screen is really that annoying and bad, and you have the correct insurance cover.... stick a brick through it and get a new one... ;)
 
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Totally agree I bought the same kit as above, by the time I finished using it I could see more chips than before.
As above tungsten dart will crack the window.
 
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This Yank seems to have some success , but I feel whatever he is using is just disguising as some wax / polishes have fillers .

If its for real perhaps he's capable of polishing a **** .

 
I'm a ex windscreen fitter and u can't sand it out,glass is made of sand molecules and came across it loads whilst I did screens.sanding /polishing thins the glass and suggest get a new screen if it bugs u
 
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Right so basically nothing can be done then, I used to have some cutting paste for windscreens but was very dusty / messy.
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Like I said before cutting into glass will weaken it and that's the last thing u want 2do,it's not like bodywork and can cut into it.glass is made of moving sand molecules if u want to get technical so it's either replace or put up with the damage unfortunately
 
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No it's fine, would not want to polish and weaken the glass making it dangerous. Partner is fine with it, just bugs me!
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Least u know now :) reason y people don't get the results when they do it,saved u a few hours there lol
 
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The pads mentioned make light work of really stubborn water spots on glass though.
 
I've used gtechniq G4 glass polish and used a chemical guys white finishing pad I've had mixed results but it was worth it
 
On fairly new cars you get good results or better than they were anyway, on cars with older windscreens sometimes the scratches are just too much,

I think if you polish & protect your windscreen from it been new and replace your wipers every few months it limits the scratches
 
If it's anything like the glass polishing we do at work it takes ages but you can get results.

We had a glass atrium done after some scratch marks caused but grinding work on adjacent steel work. It was pretty much invisible once done but then you,re not looking at it closer than about a meter away.

The guys we get to do it use is cerium oxide based 3m stuff I think.
 
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