Glass polish/resto

[Healey]

Well, I thought I would post this to paint and body: I want to clean and polish the glass on my '78 FJ40. Windshied, doors, hardtop glass. 35 years have made the glass look old - it needs some serious cleaning and buffing. The glass is not cracked or chipped. Any products and methods out there for restoring the glass to near-new? Without buying new
Thanks

 

[AussieHJCruza]

Griot's Garage

There's a company called Griot's Garage in Tacoma, WA, that makes some pretty good stuff. They sell all around the world.

http://www.griotsgarage.com/

They do a line of glass polishes and special pads you can use on a random orbital polisher (I recommend one of these...as a car detailer, I can tell you that hand polishing starts to lose its appeal after an hour or so...)

Hope this helps.

 

[Healey]

Thanks! Yes, I know of Griot's Garage. I have one of their random orbital buffers in fact, so I will check them out for the glass polish.

 

[riderjgs]

Cleaned up a pretty grungy windshield (sitting outside for 17 years untouched) with good old grocery story Bon Ami and elbow grease. Recommendation of my Depression-era mother. Worked great and even removed some minor wiper rubbing. Cheap and easy. Sometimes we over-think and over-engineer these simple things.

 

[Dwight S]

Eastwood has a glass cleaning and polishing kit if your glass has scratches. Also check out Autogeek for other options such as Ceriglass. If it is just grungy, the Bon Ami with a wet rag will clean it nicely. If it is scratched you'll need the Eastwood or Autogeek polishing kit.

 

[fieldsken1]

I used some light rubbing compound and an mild steel wool pad or a scotch brite pad. It removes the water and soap stains and makes it look new again

Cost about 5 dollars

 

[JCruse]

Well, I thought I would post this to paint and body: I want to clean and polish the glass on my '78 FJ40. Windshied, doors, hardtop glass. 35 years have made the glass look old - it needs some serious cleaning and buffing. The glass is not cracked or chipped. Any products and methods out there for restoring the glass to near-new? Without buying new
Thanks

The detailer forums I frequented for the last couple years were pretty unanimous that CeriGlass was the best polish by far. Cerium Oxide is what glass manufacturers use to make glass panels smooth in the first place and it's the only thing on the market that actually cuts glass to any real extent. Ceriglass is the only product in the consumer market that uses Cerium in their product.

A company called Lake Country also makes a polishing pad for glass that actually has glass particles in it to polish glass. I would imagine that using both together could get out almost any imperfections.


As with paint polishing I would clay the glass first to remove dirt that could scratch the glass when using a polishing machine. Orbital or rotary.




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[UZJ40]

I used some light rubbing compound and an mild steel wool pad or a scotch brite pad. It removes the water and soap stains and makes it look new again

Cost about 5 dollars

I did the same. 00 steel wool. I had hard water stains that had been on the glass for close to a year. It wasn't easy to get them off, but they did, and it looks good as new.