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Removing water spots from windows?

Old 02-15-2008, 12:10 PM
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Question Removing water spots from windows?

I had to do this on my old Mustang. I have to do it again on this one. I'd really like to find a better product out there if there is one. I forget the name (I'm at work), but I use steel wool & this white liquid stuff. I had to use a lot of elbow grease & ended up with marks on the windows even though I used the finest steel wool out there.

So what products are on the market to remove waterspots? These bitches are baked on!
Old 02-15-2008, 12:27 PM
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i used simple green and some steel wool
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the steel wool will come in different grades! I have always used grade 0000 with some liquid metal polish try it on a small part 1st to make sureeverything is ok 1st. Dont just use any steel wool or you will scratch the **** out of the glass.
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0000 steel wool and chrome polish

do it lightly, don't scratch it

Then keep some rain-x on the glass and it shouldn't happen again.

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i used a razor blade
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I had BAD hard water spots on my truck windows .. I used 3M "fine polishing compound" and a brillo pad .. It wasn't easy but I learned something .. NEVER let water spots go .. they only get worse!!!!
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When i lived in Hawaii water spots are very bad and i did about 300 cars the 3 years i lived there and all of them looked like new glass when i got done. Never once left a scratch.
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razor blade and glass cleaner
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I just did this last night, chrome polish and microfiber towels. Oh yeah, don't forget your wheatie's. After that I used some Meguiars plastic polish to clean up. Here's a pic of the passenger side not done and the driverside finished.



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Polish your windows, that's what I did and came out great.
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i used glass scrub and a buffer
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Zaino X Glass Cleaner -- It's the only stuff that I have seen work. I put some on my buffer and buffed them all out really fast.
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wheel cleaner and compound, mix them two together and you have yourself a badass acid rain remover.


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