Does anyone know of any scratch removing polish or some form of compound for windscreens?

Where the wipers have been the glass is scratched and when the sun hits it, it is a nightmare to see anything

Short of a new windscreen, I would like to try the cheaper options first

 

Not sure if halfrunds do anything, know they do something for cracks

 

just claim on your insurance,,,, the screen will never be right

 

Halfords do fuck all

Gareth - Normally I would do, But i have a phobia about the screen not sealing properly once fitted

And it will be Ł75 on the insurence too for a screen

 

they normally do a cracking job now

 

I hope so, Some scum put a brick thru the window of the old mans E36 a couple of years ago, it went back 3 times to have the windscreen changed as it would leak at the smallest amount of water

 

not enough silacunt used then lol

 

rigwrecker


I was thinking more along the lines of the sillicunt who fitted it at the windscreen center

 

PMSL PMSL PMSL PMSL

bang on the bonder i say

 

i can get a screen with a blue top tint and fit it for you if you're willing to let me rip your screen apart. but it would still cost around the 75 mark with the added bonus of knowin i'd do a top job of it as i've never had a windscreen come back for leaking.
thats not to say there has never been other problems. but never leaking

 

The Beard

Stop advertising


Seriously tho, Cheers for the offer, however, I will see what i can do with some of this glass repleanisher I have ordered first

and I think you are a bit far away aswell

 

in that case here's a free one for ya.
try gettin your hands on some jewllers rouge (not sure if thats spelt rite)
its a brown powder that you rub into the scratch with a wet cloth but to be honest it don't get deep scratches out.
i could send you some but if the little bag was to spilt it the post people would think its drugs or summin falling from the envelope.

 

I've just ordered some of that off fleabay - 4 quid

 

not a bad price cos its not easy to get your hands on these days.

but this bit isn't an advert mate but i've got loads of the stuff,about 3 big pots.
they somehow fell into my van when i was with RAC then would you belive they fell into my garage when i got home that night.

 

Top man

 

did you get the stuff yet and did it work??

 

Just waiting on it being delivered, Will let you know how it goes

 

Im interested to see if this works or not too, as i have a few scratches on the vans screen.

 

it works if they aren't too deep.

 

you fucking minge bag

pm thrush...

its his job to fit them

is it bonded if it is your fucked ... you carnt fit it your self

 

yep bonded.

 

Graceland

paul you carnt fit it your self then mate ..its a call out job

what cars it on

thrush may know some extra info ..

but i guess its gonna be a pay for it jobby

 

Woah people

who the fuck said anything about ME fitting a screen? I'm only doing a spot of scratch removal

 

Hi everyone would that jewellers rouge work on a big scratch only some prick scratched the word shit into the rear screen of my focus if i see him it will be

 

Sorry but we needs pictures

 

it doesn't work on toughened glass mate sorry to say.

 

I'm not surprised it leaked if they used Silicone!

Gracy - not read all the replies, but from my expirience (5yrs in the automotive glass trade) there isn't really anything that will remove deep or prominent scratches from glass You can try jewellers rouge, a rubbing compound, but it still only takes out very light scratches, and even then, it doesn't completely remove it.

As far as "doing a good job" changing the screen, like anything you get good fitters and bad fitters. Personally, I pride myself on being a good fitter, and in the last year, where I did over 1000 windscreen changes, I had 6 that leaked, 3 that stress cracked, and 2 that came back for "poor trims" (where the trim lifted of didn't take properly to the screen) Thats a pretty good score as far as I am concerned From a fitters point of view, it is not in our interest to have any screen come back at all, as we loose DOUBLE the ammount of bonus we earn if it does come back. If you were closer, I would do yours myself, as I have done quite a few for RS and XR owners over the years. I have done Squeaks (Rob Williams) XR4x4Ti twice now, did Fil's XR4x4 a couple years ago, did a Saff cos for another RSOC BB/Passionford member, Jim's XR4i, Scooby's (XROC member) entire car (all glass) and a couple others aswell.

Of course there ARE factors when working on old Saff's tho - rust being the main problem. Many many screens are taken out to find the aperture behind the screen has rusted/corroded - this can be a big problem as new bond will never stick to it perfectly like when it was new. There are tricks to working with this - anti-rust primers we use so that the primer used for applying the glue to has a smoother area to adhere to etc, but as we all know - once rust has set in, it only ever gets worse

 

Cheers Matt

Altho rust shouldn't be a problem on my car, it being a BMW and all that


Also, the scratches arn't deep, they are just where the wipers have been and it looks like someone has used the wipers with a severe shortage of water on a dusty screen

 

Beemer? I remember you having an E30, but thought you sold it? What model you got now?

 

And take that fucking saff out your sig then - thats false advertising

 

328i Sport Coupe now Matt

 

CUNT off son - that was my baby

 

Harp at you calling me "son", even tho I am older than you

Good thing you do live far from me - I HATE doing screen on E36 coupe's and cabs - pain in the ass them fuckers

 

thrush whats the average price for a e36 screen ?

 

Why are the coupé's a pain in the arse SON?

 

Ginge - couldn't tell ya, I really only deal with ins claims.....

Paul - they are uaually very tight, and rather flat to the aperture. Also, BMW for some reason decided to dive them well below the bonnet line, so to get the scuttle off and the bottom two corners of the screen out, you need to remove a screw from the hinges on the bonnet allowing it to slide forward. It's getting these screws back in that is the cunt

And if the car has lived outside it's whole life, usually we find rust/corrosion under the screen on the aperture similar to fords

 

i see someone else works for AUTO*****.

 

What branch you at Beardy?

 

hounslow,near heathrow.

what about you?

 

more importantly, price on a screen for a e36 please