Glass Cleaning Water spots etc.

[s word]

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or two

[jsacra]

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new to the thread but wut is uc ?

Mothers had advertised a Water Spot remover which I tested on my mirrors. Result was semi-decent. Less results than the UC example Mike posted.

The Mothers stuff is great for light water spotting, but the really baked on stuff required much much more. Without seeing this thread I UC/UP/Waxed a friends car that had sat in sprinkler overspray almost daily for over a year with no wash/no wax. When I saw the results I tried just UC to start on the windows. Very good results and this stuff was caked on there.

In addition to what Murr said about keeping it off I think regular maintenance and not parking in troublesome spots go a long way for prevention. Ultimate spray wax, x-press wax all are great on windows.

[STRIFE]

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new to the thread but wut is uc ?

Ultimate Compound

http://www.autogeek.net/meguiars-ultimate-compound.html

[Detailing by M]

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don't use steel wool. I don't know what I was thinking.

[gmitch23]

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The info below is taken from a TNOG last year:

You've got water spots on glass that just don't want to budge. What do you do to fix that?


Get a little creative - grab a bottle of Ultimate Compound and kill those water spots!


And just like that, the water spots are gone.

i used this method just yesterday. Came off with minimal scrubbing. Followed it with ultimate quick wax and glass cleaner. Works great.

[goldenlight]

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You will find using a DA or 39.99 orbital buffer at advance auto with Ultimate compound or duragloss 755 will make the waterspots disapear.

[Show 'N' Shine Car Detailing]

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Well unfortunately, the ones I just encountered on all the glass surfaces had water spots. They did NOT come out. I even used UC. Not sure why they didn,t but I tried with the DA on speed 4-5 on a 8207 pad.

[CleanSquad]

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I haven't done this yet, and I'm very new to all this, but I've read about claying your windshields....would that not work?

[renegadejade]

I would clay the glass regardless. It may get some of the water spots off the glass. If it doesn't, which on my glass it didn't touch them, I would get some uc either by hand or machine and go to town.

[Stephan]

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Question: I see cars that have "spots on the back widow, that are arranged in a kind of grid, but they aren't water spots. They look like a kind of optical imperfection?

I've seen those many times at certain angles when wearing glasses or sunglasses with polarized lenses. I THINK it has to do with factory tint or factory UV protection.

[Guitar280Z]

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The Clay is designed to remove fine partiulate matter, not grasey, filmy stuff, which is why you'd want to use a water spot remover or the UC stuff, to polish off the last little bit of chemical or oilly stuff that makes the glass less perfectly transparent.