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Just curious, could you use 80/83, Swirl X, etc... On the windshield to remove some faint scratching and stuff or is it worthless to even do? Just thought about it and thought I would ask.
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Re: Could you use paint cleaner on glass?
Paint polishes are not hard enough to even touch scratches in glass. If you search for "polishing glass" or "glass polish" you will find many threads including some with posts today.
Here are a few to get you started:
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Re: Could you use paint cleaner on glass?
You can use it on glass
It will remove on surface contaminates, not scratches
You need something harder then the glass to remove the glass around the scratch, thus "removing" the scratch.
Here's my posts and others on the subject
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Re: Could you use paint cleaner on glass?
Scratches? No. Stuff? Maybe.Originally posted by invertalon View Post
As others have mentioned, paint cleaners won't do anything for scratches in glass, but for bad water spots and other similar issues M04 Heavy Cut Cleaner has long been a popular product. Ultimate Compound and M105 should work well for those water spots too.Michael Stoops
Senior Global Product & Training Specialist | Meguiar's Inc.
Remember, this hobby is supposed to be your therapy, not the reason you need therapy.
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Re: Could you use paint cleaner on glass?
M04 works pretty well because the diminishing abrasive is fairly large and chunky, this allows it to cut into any film of gunk built-up on the surface of the glass without scratching the glass as it's being worked.
Products like M83, M82, M09, old ScratchX, etc. use microscopic diminishing abrasives and this lack of size and chunkiness inhibits their effectiveness.
M04 or M49 in the Marine Line work pretty well.
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Re: Could you use paint cleaner on glass?
You know, I don't think I have ever heard abrasives described in such a sophisticated manner.Originally posted by Mike Phillips View Post
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Re: Could you use paint cleaner on glass?
Could you use a clay bar and get the same results since you are just trying to remove surface contaminants?
I once put swirls in my paint just to see what it looked like.
I don't always detail cars, but when I do, I prefer Meguiar's.
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Re: Could you use paint cleaner on glass?
It works a little on some kinds of film build-ups... you don't know until you try.Originally posted by andrewc_11890 View Post
From my experience, based upon detailing hundreds of cars in Oregon and Washington which are exposed to a lot of rain and road grime, removing the kind of gunk or film-build that builds-up on glass on daily drives usually takes some muscle. Again, that's where the chunkiness of the diminishing abrasive in M04 excels compared to clay or things that are smooth and creamy.
Make sense?
It's really one of those things that when you feel the chunkiness of M04 and you go out and try to polish glass with horrible film-build on it, that you will fully understand and appreciate the difference in how abrasives work.
Over the years there's always been these kinds of discussions on this forum and others, but it's when you push away from the keyboard and actually go out into the garage and start working products over contaminated glass that the typed words have more meaning.
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