Steel Wool is safe? Get #0000 steel wool, no scratches, it's what I use to polish my glass if there are strong water spots that can't be removed by washing/wiping or qd'er.

 

thanks everyone for all your input. I tried a few of the suggestions (still nervous about the steel wool) and eventually had success with a product called vim. Its a mildly abrasive cream kitchen cleaner. I've done two applications so far and believe that the next one should finish the job. Whatever was on there bonds with glass very well. I'm guessing it was one of the windshild treatments mentioned ealier. for some reason though, it deffinitely did not enhance visibilitiy.

thanks again everyone, this is a great forum!

 

You're a smart guy.

Steel wool will indeed clean and polish the glass. But what about the residue that falls off and goes down the glass and into places unknown? Remember ... this is called STEEL wool because that's what it is made of. Raw steel. And it rusts almost immediately ... and rusts anything that it touches also.

Don't ask me how I know this ...

 

Hey we got an old skooler here !!

For the future - +1 on that - My old man used to use ammonia rubbed on with crumpled up news paper. After that some windex to finish it off. Prob was the car wash wax. After 2 - 3 washes the wipers would skip across the windshield. Ammonia always did the trick - just wear a mask - 1 good sniff an you will see stars.

 

Question:

What is the main difference between Rain-X and Aquapel?
I presently use Rain-X and also Rain-X windshield wiper fluid and it works fine so far!

 

Damon,

I was going to order one to try, but your shipping charge is more than the price of the product.

It's considerably cheaper - both the product and the shipping cost - from Amazon.

 

Rain-X is mostly water..




From my good old WHMIS/MSDS book..

Water - 50%
METHANOL(35%)
and the surfactant - BENZENEMETHANAMINIUM, N-[2-[(2,6-DIMETHYLPHENYL)AMINO]-2-OXOETHYL]-N,N-DIETHYL-, BENZOATE


hmmmm maybe I could use this in my water/meth injection kit?

 

Thanks 2muchtime

Is Aquapel listed in your WHMIS/MSDS book?
It would be interesting to compare the two to see what the difference is.

BTW, at one time I had a Moroso water/meth injection system on a small block Chevy with nitrous. It made a huge difference at the track as it allowed a lot more advance!

 

PRODUCT NAME: Aquapel®



15-25 %

http://raysands.wordpress.com/2008/0...rainx-residue/

interesting article; I will definitely give it a try, as I originally said I always apply once a month so I don't see the breakdown residue issue but didn't know about the build up on the wiper blades.

 

A final note on getting the polymer/wax off my windshild. Although I had thought that the Vim cream cleaner had worked it had not. As soon as I required the wipers at night the glass agailn become impossible to see thopugh and nearly ended up in a head on collision. While I was in Wallmart I noticed that next to the RainX they sold a glass "stripper" designed to remove coatings. It took three applications but it eventually removed the coating from the windshild. Although I have used most of the windshild treatments (rainx, aquapel etc) on other cars in the past, after this experience I hesitate to apply anything on my windshild again. I suspect that someone had improperloy applied the product or used too much.....

 

In the winter months I use RainShield as it can be applied wet (like days in PacNW); just spray it on while it is raining. It also does not build up like RainX does.

 

I had an '07 Lexus RX 350 and used the green side of one of those yellow dish sponges (new out of the bag) that you would use to clean dishes.....It scratched the hell out of the windshield when I used it to remove Florida luv bugs off the glass. The windshield was wet and soapy as was the sponge, I did not see the damage until I got in the car to drive and it was as if I used a power sander. It was not repairable and the windshield had to be replaced! Expensive lesson learned.
Also, if you ever had your windshield "repaired" by one of those crack or chip repairs, beware too, what you use over them because they are plastic filled and are much more fragile than the windshield glass. Now I have no clue if Porsche glass is stronger than Lexus glass but I would think a windshield is a windshield and all about the same.