Those look bad! What the hell happened? Generally- if you can catch the scratch w/ your nail..........No. Eastwood sells a polishing kit for glass. I tried it once- wound up fixing it w/ new glass.
No idea how it happened it was like that when we got the car. Can not catch my nail on it but I can feel it with my finger. Really hope there is a cheap way to fix it because it is my 16 year old sons car and he does not have the funds for new one.
I bought a kit from harbor freight that you use with a drill. As you can probably guess it was worthless.
when you use a polisher to remove the scratches your just removing the lose particals. the scratch will still be seen. There is not a filler for it. Your best bet is to get a new windshield. Thats my experience anyway.
Try wet sanding start with 1500 than 2000 hit with buffer rubbing compound buff a few times set on it with buffer good luck
A friend of mine who has a glass shop told me that he can remove deep scratches but by removing so much material it will cause optical distortion.........for that reason even though it' possible, he won't do it.
If you have a lot of time, buffing it will help a lot. I did it once, with Eastwood's glass compound, it was on a rare customer's car and nobody made a windshield for it. You just need a lot of patience, glass is obviously very hard. I like Busch's idea of starting out with wet-sanding, although I'd bet you need to start with something more course, like 600P. Try this on a scrap piece of glass first to get the right grit that works best.
This is a safety issue. Good vision is paramount when driving. The couple of hundred dollars spent on new glass could save your son's life. Please do the right thing...
Not to bag on you, but the title says Is there an easy way and then your reply says Really hope there is a cheap way. Gotta say that there are extremely few things that are both easy and cheap in this world. Gotta ask I guess, but why do these things always require no money, no skill, little labor and done by tonight?
It will NOT buff, polish, cleanup, etc..... Don't waste your time, replace it when you get the Cash. Good luck.
Any suggestions for side glass? The glass I bought for my ford had Cellophane tape on it for a few years and I scraped it off with a razor blade and left scratches...
Well, since there's no hard way, there sure ain't an easy one. I went through that with a 60 Pontiac I had 5 yrs ago, and a couple "pros" couldn't get out even the finer scratches.....which made me ask.....what CAN you remove? Give it up. Glass is as hard as a whores heart.
Ive buffed minor scratching out with just paint buffing materials. What you have looks like more than that.
I can tell you it does work, but only on finer scratches, and it takes FOREVER. I buffed on that windwhield for hours, if not all day.
that looks like experience in the making to me. when I was young I got caught out in a freeze with no scraper... I used the bottom of a coke can to clear the ice off and it looked pretty much exactly like the OP's windshield afterwards.
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