Taking on harsh water spots on glass...

[Deviant]

I had some bad water spots on my Jeep Rubicon's windows. Yesterday, I tried a glass polishing disk on speed 5 on my PC. First I used AutoGlym glass polish and it didn't work very well at removing the spots...then I tried Zaino Z12 glass polish, and it got off the water spots, but it left tiny microscratches that could be seen if examined in very bright sunshine. That sucks, so I won't be using that anymore. Good thing I just tested these products on my Jeep.



Then I came to a solution that will not scratch glass, and will get off the water spots. I used AIO on a foam pad on the PC at full speed. It takes longer, but the water spots are gone, and there are zero scratches. I also masked off the rubber trim around the windows so I could get all the way to the edges of the glass. Then I used isopropyl alchohol to wipe down all of the Rubicon's glass and remove the AIO, after which I applied Aquapel.

I had the same problem w/ the Zaino but it only occured on a older '97 Toyota Tacoma. I used it on a '05 Tacoma and a'04 BMW w/ out any problems. I'm guessing the older glass was a bit softer or something since it marred pretty easily.

 

[Mach30SiR]

Yes the scion tC I have has a few water stains on the roof

Where you happy with the finall results, or did you have to use another product to get where you wanted to be after the mothers? What was your process?

 

[kompressornsc]

A friend of mine and I washed his new black Tahoe last weekend and the back glass was horribly watermarked - the paint looked great (Z2 Pro), but the windows are tinted os dark it looks like a continuation of th epaint, so it really stood out. Tried Z Glass polish, no go. Stoner's didn't touch it.



So, he went down to the local U-Wash palce to vaccum it out and saw one of those dispensers with 'glass cleaning cloth' packets in it and decided to give them a try. Took the spots right off! The main ingredient seems to be alcohol. Not sure if it would work for all waterspots (sure there are different sources), but worked perfect for these. Oh- and we were using filtered water, so maybe that took some of the minerals out and the ones left cleaned easily with alcohol?