greasy windscreen cure

[Brett Dikeman]

At 7:52 PM +0000 10/13/02, <iain.atkinson at tesco.net> wrote:
>Hi folks
>
>if any of you have ever suffered from a really greasy windscreen
>that just won't clean up no matter what you use, try this, the cream
>type of bathroom cleaner on a damp sponge, 69 pence worth today made
>me a happy man. I think someone had put rain x on my 90's screen
>before i got it, even shifted that and no scratching either.


Another suggestion- something sort of similar, but actually designed
for glass :-)

Auto Glym glass polish.

Don't expect, in the slightest, any scratches to come out.  However,
it does a fantastic job of removing just about everything that isn't
supposed to be there.  It leaves the glass very, very smooth and
without residue.  I was immediately impressed with it.  Judging from
the smell, I'd say it is a slightly abrasive and incredibly fine
medium, suspended in ammonia.

After I've done the windshield with the stuff, the glass is so clean
and smooth I get an effect similar to rain-x at highway speeds, the
wipers move more easily, and the glass smoothness helps for when I do
quick cleanings with the microfiber cloths(as anyone who has tried
has found, some glass is too 'rough' to clean with a microfiber
cloth.)

You need to work quickly with it, and little goes a long way; work on
small areas with an eraser-head sized portion to start off with.  It
can be used with a random orbital buffer, but again it dries very
quickly so it is tough to work with in such a case.

The bottle also states it can(of course) be used on all sorts of
glass, just NO coated glass and NO tinted glass(again, of course...)
due to its abrasive nature.  They claim it works well on metal chrome
trim and rubber(!?), but I have yet to try it on either.  I would not
use it more than a few times on the inside of a back window, although
I've never noticed any effect(such as the cloth coming away with a
brownish color etc.)

Brett
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