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I strugle to get the inside of the windscreen 100% clean, even worse on modern cars with a rake on the screen. I've tried so many things and to date white vinigar with paper towel seems best but as soon as the sun comes out :shakeinghead
What do you experts use ???
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The same, white vinegar and paper towel – several paper towels in fact… I tried several products and methods, but this works best, in my experience…
Richard
I strugle to get the inside of the windscreen 100% clean, even worse on modern cars with a rake on the screen. I've tried so many things and to date white vinigar with paper towel seems best but as soon as the sun comes out :shakeinghead
What do you experts use ???
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Meths is good for cleaning glass.
I use a clean chammy leather wrung through with clean water. Seems to get the inside of the windscreen clean and smear free.
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Sudsy ammonia, which is hard to find its basically ammonia with a couple of drops of dish soap, mixed in a spray bottle, that and old fashioned diaper cloth, which you can still buy in bulk at a sewing store.
Victor
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After cleaning I put Rainex on mine, yes on the inside too.
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We use this at work to clean our aircraft windscreens, approved by boeing ect..
Seems to clean car windscreens pretty well too with very minimal/no residue.
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I use autoglym fast glass.
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Inside and outside I use ...
(http://www.series2club.co.uk/gallery/technical/images/screen-1.jpg)
One of those microfibre cloths also help to "wipe" the glass.
There are proprietary glass cleaners, Sainsbury's and Tesco etc, do their own, based on vinegar.
Or you can take the ammonia based route.
One of those glass squeegees that window cleaners use is good for clearing a spray/liquid off the glass.
:window
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White wine vinegar and scrunched up newspaper, suggested to me by Laszlo the Hungarian truck driver many years ago.
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One solution to reach into the bottom of a modern car windscreen is to wrap a microfibre cloth around the handle of a windscreen squeegee like so.
With this you can reach right into the bottom corners.
:window
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White wine vinegar and scrunched up newspaper, suggested to me by Laszlo the Hungarian truck driver many years ago.
Reading this made me remember years ago of a neighbour who used newspaper for this job on his house windows and as I'm useing vinigar already :bright-idea
Years ago when you read the mewspaper your fingers were black from the print but perhaps not nowadays, was it the type of ink used in the past that cleaned the glass and modern print is no better than plain paper :stars
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Yes, old newspaper had carbon ink printed on it. Not sure what they use these days, but it's different and probably no different to rubbing the screen with kitchen roll.
However, the vinegar is good and it what's used in many proprietary glass cleaners.
:RHD
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I’ve always used old newspapers to clean the house windows. Got that from my mum who got it from her mum. When in my teens, so early 80s, all my friend’s mums used that. The windows are always spotless. If there is a mark, just rub over it again with the semi soaked paper. One double page is good for one window, inside and out. I tried other things like microfibre or eben one of these steam cleaners, but none is as good as newspaper. I could imagine though, that it originated in frugality due to economic situation or lack of alternatives after the war?
My mum used spirit or vinegar, but I use glass cleaner from the supermarket.
I don’t clean the inside of my car windows that often, but when, about 1-2 times a year, i do it the same way.
Often times what our mums or grandmas knew and did is much more effective that the modern stuff. It’s just companies trying to tell us they have reinvented the wheel.
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These are great, you don’t have to try to reach across to the passenger side, just spray a little cleaner on the pad.
I have a couple, for a Nicker each, you can’t go wrong.👌
https://www.poundland.co.uk/308931-windshield-cleaner/
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We once had our cottage windows professionally washed. That's alll these folks do is clean windows. I noticed that they used water and squeegee, that's all. I have been using water and squeegee ever since on the windscreens. No worries.
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These are great, you don’t have to try to reach across to the passenger side, just spray a little cleaner on the pad.
I have a couple, for a Nicker each, you can’t go wrong.👌
https://www.poundland.co.uk/308931-windshield-cleaner/
In the past I have bought some of these poundland tools and they were good to a point, the design is great but ideally a stronger arm would improve the presure you could put on the glass and the pads had a short life but at £1 good value
The big problem with these is that my local PoundLand never seems to have them anymore :shakeinghead
I did see some for sale in a garden centre, just the same but a grey colour and I think they were about £6!
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You guys are overthinking this. When I pull up to the pump to refuel the 2A, I use the sudsy squeegee on the outside of the windshield, and the inside. It works great.
:RHD
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We've had an odd problem for months now in our daughter's car. Someone drew a face with his finger in the condensation on the passenger side of the windscreen, as one does.
No chemicals or anything - he merely traced his bare finger. Yet despite cleaning following use of numerous different recomended methods, the face still reappears. It seems to be etched into the glass.
Anybody ever experienced this? Any ideas?
It's a pity he had to draw a large face - a small security code or registration number in one corner would have been more useful.
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^^^ would meths or vodka get it off?
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You guys are overthinking this. When I pull up to the pump to refuel the 2A, I use the sudsy squeegee on the outside of the windshield, and the inside. It works great.
:RHD
Our petrol stations don’t have stuff like that, people would just nick them…
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Our petrol stations don’t have stuff like that, people would just nick them…
Same here for the most part. And during the winter it's really hard to find a station that has anything in the bucket.
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We've had an odd problem for months now in our daughter's car. Someone drew a face with his finger in the condensation on the passenger side of the windscreen, as one does.
No chemicals or anything - he merely traced his bare finger. Yet despite cleaning following use of numerous different recomended methods, the face still reappears. It seems to be etched into the glass.
Anybody ever experienced this? Any ideas?
It's a pity he had to draw a large face - a small security code or registration number in one corner would have been more useful.
Have you tried the proprietary products like Rain-Ex or it’s sister product for use on the inside of the windscreen. I’m sur either would work.
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Same here for the most part. And during the winter it's really hard to find a station that has anything in the bucket.
We're lucky here, there's an ubiquitous blue fluid sold by the gallon that people use in their windshield squirters. It's loaded with alcohol so it won't freeze. The gas station owners just pour a gallon of that into the tub and we can still clean our windows in winter. Pretty nice of them, actually.
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We're lucky here, there's an ubiquitous blue fluid sold by the gallon that people use in their windshield squirters. It's loaded with alcohol so it won't freeze. The gas station owners just pour a gallon of that into the tub and we can still clean our windows in winter. Pretty nice of them, actually.
Same stuff used here as well, but for some reason they seem to empty the buckets during the winter. I did ask one time and the cashier said he had no clue why.
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If its anything like most parts of Europe, those screen squeegees are meant really for summer bug strike rather than winter screen gunge.
We had a filling station in Sarajevo and those buckets used to freeze or turn to jelly when it got really cold.
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I use autoglym fast glass.
Snap, well sort of snap. I used this once, brilliant stuff. Then found a commercial 'glass and stainless cleaner' that smelt the same but a lot cheaper, works just as well. +1 for Autoglym (maybe look for stainless cleaner)
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Windolene is essentially the same formulation and a lot cheaper .... :windolene
:window
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Us rich yanks just replace the windshield when that happens. :tiphat
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Us rich yanks just replace the windshield when that happens. :tiphat
Rich?!?! I wish... :thud LOL
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Hi ,
During my formative years, everybody knew that jewellers rouge was great for getting scratches out of car windows. But I only read one person's actual experience ... the scratches remained ... but the glass was sparkly clean. ???
Personally, I used BRASSO metal polish to clean my car windows ... and RAF barrack room windows. Brasso seems to be abrassive (Jewellers Rouge?) You need the glass to be dry to start with, lots of elbow grease until the polish goes white, showing that is dry, then gently wipe the white residue off with a soft duster.
Other metal polishes will do the same job, but might take longer.
602
PS. I suspect that T-cut is more aggressive than domestic metal polish.
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No one has mentioned using 000 gauge steel wool to polish and remove light scratches in screen glass.
:window
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Us rich yanks just replace the windshield when that happens.
Hi,
Yeah ... but when the local optician grinds the screen to my prescription .... that would tend to get expensive.
Alan ... when I was stripping paint of my Land Rover bodies, I used a plumbers gas blow-lamp, on a 4.5kg Calor bottle, and hose. (if tha panel bulges, just let it cool down ... do not push it back into shape while hot). I'd start with a scraper, finish with coarse plumbers wire wool (big bundle from a builder's merchants, not extensive).
BRILLO PADS cost more, and were less agressive., so took longer. They gave a superior finish. They seem to be packed with soap and some sort of pink stuff ... possibly jeweller's rouge. Any volunteers to try a Brillo on their windscreen?
602
PS. In the RAF, we used BRASSO metal polish on the billet windows ... it dries to a powder that is easily wiped off with a yellow duster. There is a less abrassive version that seems to be intended for the family silver.