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[oilstain]

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

I did see some for sale in a garden centre, just the same but a grey colour and I think they were about £6!

[Nanuq]

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.

 

[Clifford Pope]

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.

[oilstain]

^^^ would meths or vodka get it off?

[kev]

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.

 

Our petrol stations don’t have stuff like that, people would just nick them…

[Larry S.]

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. 

[A-Ro]

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.

[Nanuq]

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.

[Larry S.]

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.

[diffwhine]

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.

[Chris Mortimer]

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)

[Wittsend]

Windolene is essentially the same formulation and a lot cheaper .... 

[109 fever]

Us rich yanks just replace the windshield when that happens.

[Larry S.]

Us rich yanks just replace the windshield when that happens.

Rich?!?!  I wish...     LOL

[w3526602]

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.