meguiars hot rims chrome cleaner all over glass

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jak skrilla

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While at the carwash I had a bottle of a super soapy solution made from dawn soap in a spray bottle... So I could soak down under carriage from it being covered with oil from a bad gasket or rear main seal....haven't figured out which yet...as I was rushing I picked up the bottle of meguiars hot rims chrome cleaner and just started sprayin it on glass and trim... Thinking it was dawn soap solution and it couldn't hurt any of that...when I finally I figured out it was the chrome cleaner I freaked out and started to power wash it off every spot I sprayed it...now all my glass is stained with splatter marks where I sprayed chrome cleaner and I have no idea what'll get rid of it or how.
Pleals..please.. HELP ME PLEASE!!!
 
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Sounds like you etched the glass. You will need to call someone to polish the glass professionally. It's not easy to do.
 
Thanks for all help..I've went over windows with dawn, meguiars wax (red bottle), ultimate compound from meguiars,...
I was using a soft buffer with these. When I called meguiars the guy I talked to told me to try the ultimate compound...it didnt work though. I talked to him 3 more
times and sent pics. After he talked to the main guy they couldn't come up with anything...I have pics, just have to save them to phone from email I sent guy at meguiars...my laptops broke and only have phone.
 
Not a DA...Like one those $35-$40 buffers like u get at Walmart...like 4-5 years ago this guy working at a detail shop said that's what u call them and not a speed buffer..I didn't argue..I just agreed...don't matter to me..
 
unless that concoction contained phosphoric acid (the only acid that will etch glass), some serious machine polishing with ceriglass should clean it up. glass is very hard to polish with regular polishes and the cerium oxide in ceriglass should do the trick. a decent polisher and glass polishing pad is really needed.
 
Ya I was thinking I'll have to by a da...anybody know any great deals right now for da's...is it better to just buy complete kit somewhere.... I'll start looking on amazon and eBay to see what options are....just wondering if there's a deal out their u guys know about..
Thanks
 
I was looking at some of the kits they have and was wondering if I get just the DA by itself then what type of pads do I want to get to start out with...I was thinking the porter cable 7424xp with 6 inch pad....
Is this a good choice?
 
tropicsteve said:
unless that concoction contained phosphoric acid (the only acid that will etch glass)
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Yes, the Meg's Hot Rims Chrome Wheel Cleaner contains 5-15% phosphoric acid, as well as <0.65% ammonium bifluoride (the precursor to hydrofluoric acid, an acid which etches glass quite well). I'm glad this thread came up, I was unaware Meg's was selling an OTC wheel cleaner that contained ABF/HF.

http://www.meguiars.com/content/en/msds/G191 SDS.pdf

PS I can't find anything about phosphoric acid etching glass.
 
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