polishing window glass

[Longroof79]

Has anyone polished window glass on their rides? I have some glass on the car that is scuffed...no deep grooves, just looks like something mildly abrasive etched the glass. I was thinking, rather than replacing the glass, I could try this method.

I've noticed that Eastwood has a kit that's used with your power drill or random orbital sander. Has anyone been successful using this process?

 

[liquidh8]

I am curious about this as well.

 

[Longroof79]

I guess I'm an alien😵....no one else has ever heard about polishing glass?

 

[DonF]

I tried the auto parts store kit on my daily driver, it didn't do anything to the scratches or etch marks.

 

[oldsofb]

I've seen it done at the dealer years ago by a very senior guy. It was a weird looking buffer that had a bunch of round raised bumps on it and it was off white in color. He used jewelers rouge I believe with it. It was on a car that had the wiper rubber come off on one end and it put a bad mark all the way across the driver side window. I was amazed at how well it cleaned up. It left the faintest of a line after he was done. You could hardly see it.

Eastwood has a kit along with about every other auto detail place. Looks like it works well for light marks and hazing.

http://www.eastwood.com/pro-glass-polishing-kit.html

I may need to do this myself. If you find something and try it, please post your results. Good luck.

Hutch

 

[Silent viewer]

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[Longroof79]

Thank you Don and Hutch for your feedback.

Hutch, I'm considering the purchase of the Eastwood kit. Somewhere ...it might have been on You tube, someone was polishing out some auto glass, I believe he used several types of rouge. I think he started with a coarser rouge, and then gradually went lighter on the grit.
If I recall, he seemed to repeat the process over and over until he achieved his goal.
When and if I do proceed with the process, I will certainly write about it and give my feedback whether it's favorable or negative.
I'm thinking it might be more cost effective than replacing the glass...and certainly save the labor of removing and reinstalling replacement glass.

 

[MollytheOldsmobile]

I ended up replacing my front windshield for the very reason oldsofb mentioned above, when I got the car there where some serious scratches as well as really bad water stains. The car had sat for a really long time before she found me. No brainier right, couple hundred bucks replace the front windshield.
The side windows had water stains as well...I bought some Mothers window water stain remover and it has done very little to remote the stains. I have polished those windows several times and the stains are still there. When I got the window tinting done i asked my guy about the stains and he said there was nothing that could be done. The car just sat so long no chemicals would remove the water stains and there was nothing that could be done, but I bought the Mothers stuff anyway.
I haven't broke out the 10' polisher/sander for the windows, but use elbow grease every chance I get.
Don't know if that helps or not

 

[Longroof79]

Fortunately, my windshield was replaced several months back, so there's no problem there.
My driver side window needs to be polished out, along with the right rear passenger window.
The driver window is worse. I also plan to tint the windows, so I'd like everything to look good prior to having them done.

I can't say I've every come across badly stained glass before. It sounds more like a bad chemical reaction than just some simple staining. I wouldn't give up, there's got to be a solution out there...chemical or otherwise.

 

[Rktpwrd]

Jack,
I don't know if you watch PowerNation on TV on the weekends or not, but they've used the Eastwood kit a coupl'a times in the past.
Here's a link to one of their 2 min tech videos covering polishing out a scratch. Looks like the kit works pretty good, Eastwood's stuff is usually good quality.

http://powernationtv.com/two-minute-tech/2min-27/resurface-scratched-auto-glass

HTH.
Donovan