Can I save my glass?

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Krodad

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First post on this forum...lot's of great information from you pro's...now I'm hoping you can give me some magic product or procedure...

Some jerkweed drove too close to my truck and smacked my passenger side rear view mirror, busting it up...it's going to be replaced, but in the process of the smack, it crunched the mirror glass up against my passenger window. The window did not break, but it is gouged up pretty deep. Much deeper than the automotive glass folks said they could polish out. the mirrors must be polished diamond or something 'cause it really did a number on my window.
Rather than fork out another $180.00 for a new window, I was wondering if anybody had some magic blending potion that would help hide these scrapes...they show up as white scratches and it just bugs the heck out of me, especially since the truck is brand new. I guess what I'm looking for is to kind of blend them in the way lemon oil works on scratches on woodwork. I know the chemistry and materials don't really work like that on glass, but hoping for a miracle hear.

Thanks again for all the great information on this site!
 
Pictures or not if you polish out the scratches you trade one type of damage for another. In polishing glass just like in polishing paint you remove some of the base material, in this case glass, blend it all in to fool the eye, and end up with a relatively smooth, scratch free surface. My experience has been that while scratches can be polished out of glass, and optically at a 90 degree angle looking in and out of the glass the glass appears clear, looking at the glass from a parrallel angle reveals numerous waves much like the waves on the ocean. It is very hard to get the glass flat after polishing out scratches. You trade one type of damage for another. Which one can you live with. My advise repalce the glass. Have you looked into used?
 
Looks like my company might be covering the cost of the mirror itself, so I might go ahead and replace the glass.

I knew the scratches could not be polished out (they are far too deep), and what you said makes perfect sense...trade one issue for another. I'm mainly wondering if there is anything out there that would, in effect, wet the scratches so they don't appear white? If I rub the area with an oil, they almost dissapear from a distance, but obviously I'm not going to keep an oily area on my window.
Does the polymer stuff like Rejex tend to keep things like this in a wetted out appearance? I've never used it, but they claim it's great on windows. I was thinking about getting some for the leading edges of my truck to help make the bugs wash off easier...don't know if I want to put it on the rest of the sheet metal though.
 
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