Polishing the glass

[prbrianpr]

I can polish the glass with m105 and a yellow pad? Or it not will doing nothing tho the glass (due glass strength)?

[dc2_]

Re: Polishing the glass

never tried that but its a worth a shot

[Murr1525]

Re: Polishing the glass

What are you trying to do?

Remove gunk from the glass, or swirls/scratches?

[greg0303]

Re: Polishing the glass

Think about glass as 10 times harder than a car paint.

If you try to remove scratches or chips out of it even M105 won't be strong enough but for small problems it will work.

Just be careful when you use a rotary buffer as intense glass buffing will generate a lot of heat.

Lake Country, Griot's Garage and Diamondite have special kits for glass repair and polishing. They come with special glass cutting pads:

http://autogeek.net/glasscare.html

[prbrianpr]

Re: Polishing the glass

I want to have the glass like new, it have the wipers lines ( I dont know if that is the name), have strong water spots, and incrusted dust, I remove a lot with the claybar but not removed all.

[prbrianpr]

Re: Polishing the glass

And thank you to all for the replys

[Murr1525]

Re: Polishing the glass

You can certainly try #105, by machine or hand. It may remove the left over gunk, wont touch any swirls as mentioned.

[Michael Stoops]

Re: Polishing the glass

M105 on a D/A or even rotary should do a decent job of removing water spots and wiper lines, but if you've got that very fine pitting that shows up as little sparkles when the sun is low, you're sort of out of luck. That comes from the windshield basically being sand blasted over time and you won't be able to polish that out with M105, and probably not with much of anything else without using very highly specialized materials.

[prbrianpr]

Re: Polishing the glass

Thankyou people, i will try M105 on my rotary. Maybe I cannot polish it to like new glass but I can take out the 75% of the problems. If I am on hte mood I will take pictures of the proccess

[greg0303]

Re: Polishing the glass

Thankyou people, i will try M105 on my rotary. Maybe I cannot polish it to like new glass but I can take out the 75% of the problems. If I am on hte mood I will take pictures of the proccess

Here's the problem with glass: if you have deep scratches or chips you won't be able to effectively remove them because you can't level the surrounding glass to the depth of the deepest scratch/ chip point.
Sanding won't work because you'll just add new scratches and won't be able to remove them either.

But as Mike said M105 will take care of smaller problems and overall improve the look.