Window Polish with a PC

dboat said:
then I just wanted to find out if an existing polish would swirl the glass.. no answer to that one yet.
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Yes, you can swirl glass. Use too agressive of a product/pad combo and you can very easliy damage automotive glass. This most often occurs with a rotary buffer and a synthetic wool pad. With a PC and a standard glass polish like Autoglym or Zaino you should be fine.
 
then what do you think about using a very mild paint polish? Griots has one that they claim is only mildly more abrasive than their own Best of Show Wax, in fact they say some mix the polish and wax together...

Dana
 
You will be fine with a mild paint polish. :up You would be fine with something like to Autoglym or Zaino glass polish as well.



Most of the problems come from heat from rotary + wrong pad (typically synthetic wool) + too agressive of a compound. Just using a mild paint polish with the PC and a foam pad will be fine.



:xyxthumbs
 
I am going to try it on my shower door first... thanks for the assist.. I will use the Griots orange polishing pad first.. the red pad for waxing is probably a little too soft..

thanks again

Dana:up
 
Some time ago many folk reported good results with Klasse AIO. Autoglyms polish is good either by hand or by machine, however, Autoglym do say that you cannot use there paint polish on glass, not sure why so maybe its worth a quick check to ensure the product is fine with glass.



Steven
 
I polish my windshield once a year with DACP and Swirl Free, but I do it by hand and use terry cloth towels. Seems to work fine.



I think a PC with a polishing pad would be fine on glass provided you don't crank up the speed and push hard.
 
ShowroomLincoln said:
Yes, you can swirl glass. Use too agressive of a product/pad combo and you can very easliy damage automotive glass. This most often occurs with a rotary buffer and a synthetic wool pad. With a PC and a standard glass polish like Autoglym or Zaino you should be fine.
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Okay So I just bought a car that must have had this very thing done to it (inexperience handling of a rotary & syn pad). The paint I have fixed with 3M FI-2, but the windshield glass also has swirls. Do I attempt to remove the fine swirls with 3M Finesse-it II? Or go straight to the Cerium Oxide treatment?
 
Hey!



Has anyone tried Pro-wax's Glass Polish yet??



I just bought some and have not had a chance to use it yet as the weather has not cooperated.



Thanks! :)
 
dr427



Always start with the least abrasive first. Your windshield might be beyond repair, it can only be polished so many times before the optics of the glass begins to distort. :(
 
Hello,



I bought a used 4runner out of a small coal mining town. The truck had very bad water spotting from acid rain, I guess. The point is that the water spotting was REALLY bad!!



I have removed the water spots using autoglym. The kit works well but the pad won't get into the corners so you will have to cut one of the pads and do some by hand. Also, mask off your trim with low stick masking tape.



I had one problem though. I want to emphasize that this was some sort of freak accident. I tried to repeat this accident and I could not make it happen again. When I was using the 4" pad the pad fell off of the adapter and I damaged my windshield with the exposed adapter. I glued the adapter into the pad and I finished my truck with no worries. Again, this was a freak accident but, I'm an experienced craftsman and this accident caught me totally off guard.



PS. IMO, Griot's is like Orvis - a bunch of ordinary products with extraordinary prices. I have a box full of their products and I'm not exactly gleaming with joy ;) I have their paint cleaing clay and matching pad. . . worthless junk :shocked Mother's clay worked much better and faster by hand.
 
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