swanicyouth
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My passenger side rear window had some nasty scratches in it. I think the previous owner must have parked someplace where a branch hit the window.
Looks OK from here, Right?
Under Brinkmann Tuff Max LED:
Ouch
I specifically took those before photos at the gas station at night, as that is how the glass defects show up best.
Defects in the day:
Ok, so you can see the glass has scratches. The scratches are quite bad, especially because the window has black factory tint. Some of the scratches are so bad, you can catch your fingernail on them slightly. I'm going for 90% correction.
Here is the view taking a step back. I put a tape strip on the inside of the glass, so I know the area to focus on, as the scratches are all above a certain area of the glass:
Checked the glass for bonded contaminants. None found.
Assembled the goodies:
Primed the CarPro glass pad and used this much Cerri Glass:
Spread out the polish on speed 2
Total polish time (2 rounds): 16 minutes.
The after mess:
Cleaned just the glass to see how I did
Left upper glass:
Right upper glass:
Here is a photo where it looks like dirty glass under the light. It's actually the dust on the light lens reflecting back through the glass:
Now its time to detail the truck and clean up the mess. I clean the pads in my homemade "bottomless bucket" pad cleaner/#2 bottomless bucket in 2BM.
Pads can be blasted clean with a hose or pressure washer:
But, as you can see, all the spent soap and polish just rinses away:
I did a full detail and 2BM wash using PB's Super Slick Suds in the foam gun and 1Z Exclusiv Gloss in the bucket.
Back at the gas station with the glass:
I would say I got 95% correction on the glass. Once again, very happy with these CarPro glass products. Polishing was done keeping the polish drippy wet with DI water using heavy pressure until the polish got pretty diluted. Then pressure and speed were lightened until I was just about polishing with water.
All clean:
Car has no dressing. Tires have Tuff Shine Tire Clear Coat and trim has Dlux with Permanon Car Super Shine on top.
Clean wheels:
Really clean wheels:
DLux with Permanon on all trim and running boards. They bead like a MoFo:
Looks OK from here, Right?
Under Brinkmann Tuff Max LED:
Ouch
I specifically took those before photos at the gas station at night, as that is how the glass defects show up best.
Defects in the day:
Ok, so you can see the glass has scratches. The scratches are quite bad, especially because the window has black factory tint. Some of the scratches are so bad, you can catch your fingernail on them slightly. I'm going for 90% correction.
Here is the view taking a step back. I put a tape strip on the inside of the glass, so I know the area to focus on, as the scratches are all above a certain area of the glass:
Checked the glass for bonded contaminants. None found.
Assembled the goodies:
Primed the CarPro glass pad and used this much Cerri Glass:
Spread out the polish on speed 2
Total polish time (2 rounds): 16 minutes.
The after mess:
Cleaned just the glass to see how I did
Left upper glass:
Right upper glass:
Here is a photo where it looks like dirty glass under the light. It's actually the dust on the light lens reflecting back through the glass:
Now its time to detail the truck and clean up the mess. I clean the pads in my homemade "bottomless bucket" pad cleaner/#2 bottomless bucket in 2BM.
Pads can be blasted clean with a hose or pressure washer:
But, as you can see, all the spent soap and polish just rinses away:
I did a full detail and 2BM wash using PB's Super Slick Suds in the foam gun and 1Z Exclusiv Gloss in the bucket.
Back at the gas station with the glass:
I would say I got 95% correction on the glass. Once again, very happy with these CarPro glass products. Polishing was done keeping the polish drippy wet with DI water using heavy pressure until the polish got pretty diluted. Then pressure and speed were lightened until I was just about polishing with water.
All clean:
Car has no dressing. Tires have Tuff Shine Tire Clear Coat and trim has Dlux with Permanon Car Super Shine on top.
Clean wheels:
Really clean wheels:
DLux with Permanon on all trim and running boards. They bead like a MoFo:
