Hello there fellow AG-ers, today I am going to do a review for Opti Glass Cleaner. Now why this product? Because it is very under-rated and no one is doing it yet, not to mention I found that there is really just that much glass cleaner review on this forum.
Before I start, due to the testing is being done during night time therefore the photos are of sub-par quality, as well as the video. And doing a glass cleaner review is really more difficult than I expected, since it is just that difficult to really take a photo that can tell how each cleaner cleaned the glass. Therefore I am going to add in opinion from other attributes.
Pricing:
OPT Glass Cleaner (17oz) - $9.99
Pinnacle Glass Cleaner (32oz) - $19.99
DP Glass Cleaner (32oz) - $16.99
We can see that nothing really separates OPT and Pinnacle, you get 2oz extra buying 2 OPT Glass Cleaner. DP is cheapest but DP is a pure glass cleaner without water repellant like OPT and Pinnacle.
OPT Glass Cleaner Concentrate (2oz into Gallon) - $49.99 with free towel
Pinnacle Glass Cleaner (Gallon) - $39.99
DP Glass Cleaner (Gallon) - $39.99
Ok so $10 more expensive for OPT, with a free towel valued at $9.99. Pinnacle and DP tied with same price. So would you buy a pure glass cleaner or cleaner with water repellant with the same price? Or is OPT really worth the extra $10?
The following were used for this test:
4 x Cobra Glass Towel
1 x Cobra Waffle Weave
OPC
OPT Glass Cleaner
DP Glass Cleaner
Pinnacle Glass Cleaner
Makita Blower
The testing vehicle is my mom's Mercedes Benz, which has no LSP on paintwork and windscreen/windows. To make it fair however, I still OPC-ed and rinse down both front and rear windscreen.
The test starts with rear windscreen, left side with OPT Glass Cleaner and right side with Pinnacle Glass Cleaner.
Similar beading?
So much water sheets off and it makes drying so easy, just two big swipe to achieve this.
Verdict: Like I mentioned, can't really comment on the cleaning effect. The water repellant are equal or near equal. Both smells just like a glass cleaner which I do not think many would go and smell all day like ONR. The point breaker however will be the streaking, or rather "number of wipes/buff required to get a streak free condition".
The OPT requires only 2-3 wipes. First wipe to spread around, 2nd wipe and you will notice it is already gone and streak-less. The third wipe is just to confirm it and enjoy the smooth glassy surface.
Pinnacle isn't that bad either, not exceeding 7 wipes. It just takes more wipes than OPT but the smoothness is great, can't really compare between them.
Overall, it is really down to user preferences. If you are only going to wipe so much windscreen/glass at a shot, OPT would be the winner. Since you can achieve streak-less result in lesser time, and being that would means you do not need that much towels. Since if a product gives you streaks, you would use a dry cloth to finish it instead of using the saturated one.
Conclusion, I do not mind to use either one on normal vehicles. But on car with Opti Glass, definitely I would go for OPT Glass Cleaner as OPT products synergize. And another reason is, it is safer to ship that concentrate (such a small bottle, would not even call it a bottle) compared to that gallon jugs, which may or may not leak.
And now to the front windscreen, left side is with DP Glass Cleaner and right side with OPT Glass Cleaner.
Although it is quite difficult to differentiate, the OPT side actually has better beading as expected, they rolled off faster. (Video later)
Closer look. OPT side you can see the lines where water just rolled off, DP side you can still see the water beads hanging around. Now why would the DP side still beads? It isn't, the gradient of the windscreen caused it. Video will show later.
Opti Glass Clean & Protect testing - YouTube
To further demonstrate it, I used the Makita Blower and blew away at the windscreen starting at center to the left side first and then to the right. The blower stays stationary at center, just turning the nozzle left and right to be fair.
As shown, with only that little pass through, most of the waters got blew away on the right side with little remains. The left side, instead of flying off most of them just got pushed to the corner.
Verdict: No comment as this is just to show the presence of water repellant. But DP Glass Cleaner without water repellant, it is definitely recommended that you use 2 towels method, as this is done at night time, the temperature is causing streaking issue for DP. Furthermore without the water repellant polymer, it goes on especially rough (since we OPC-ed the windscreen leaving it clean and bare) where the glass towel got jumped and rolled a bit..
Finally, since it's my mom's car why don't I just do something good. I sprayed Pinnacle Glass Cleaner on DP side too to give it a complete water repellant across the windscreen. And one last final blow away.
Opti Glass Clean & Protect testing 2 - YouTube
Thank you and your precious comments and critics are welcomed.
Before I start, due to the testing is being done during night time therefore the photos are of sub-par quality, as well as the video. And doing a glass cleaner review is really more difficult than I expected, since it is just that difficult to really take a photo that can tell how each cleaner cleaned the glass. Therefore I am going to add in opinion from other attributes.
Pricing:
OPT Glass Cleaner (17oz) - $9.99
Pinnacle Glass Cleaner (32oz) - $19.99
DP Glass Cleaner (32oz) - $16.99
We can see that nothing really separates OPT and Pinnacle, you get 2oz extra buying 2 OPT Glass Cleaner. DP is cheapest but DP is a pure glass cleaner without water repellant like OPT and Pinnacle.
OPT Glass Cleaner Concentrate (2oz into Gallon) - $49.99 with free towel
Pinnacle Glass Cleaner (Gallon) - $39.99
DP Glass Cleaner (Gallon) - $39.99
Ok so $10 more expensive for OPT, with a free towel valued at $9.99. Pinnacle and DP tied with same price. So would you buy a pure glass cleaner or cleaner with water repellant with the same price? Or is OPT really worth the extra $10?
The following were used for this test:
4 x Cobra Glass Towel
1 x Cobra Waffle Weave
OPC
OPT Glass Cleaner
DP Glass Cleaner
Pinnacle Glass Cleaner
Makita Blower
The testing vehicle is my mom's Mercedes Benz, which has no LSP on paintwork and windscreen/windows. To make it fair however, I still OPC-ed and rinse down both front and rear windscreen.
The test starts with rear windscreen, left side with OPT Glass Cleaner and right side with Pinnacle Glass Cleaner.
Similar beading?
So much water sheets off and it makes drying so easy, just two big swipe to achieve this.
Verdict: Like I mentioned, can't really comment on the cleaning effect. The water repellant are equal or near equal. Both smells just like a glass cleaner which I do not think many would go and smell all day like ONR. The point breaker however will be the streaking, or rather "number of wipes/buff required to get a streak free condition".
The OPT requires only 2-3 wipes. First wipe to spread around, 2nd wipe and you will notice it is already gone and streak-less. The third wipe is just to confirm it and enjoy the smooth glassy surface.
Pinnacle isn't that bad either, not exceeding 7 wipes. It just takes more wipes than OPT but the smoothness is great, can't really compare between them.
Overall, it is really down to user preferences. If you are only going to wipe so much windscreen/glass at a shot, OPT would be the winner. Since you can achieve streak-less result in lesser time, and being that would means you do not need that much towels. Since if a product gives you streaks, you would use a dry cloth to finish it instead of using the saturated one.
Conclusion, I do not mind to use either one on normal vehicles. But on car with Opti Glass, definitely I would go for OPT Glass Cleaner as OPT products synergize. And another reason is, it is safer to ship that concentrate (such a small bottle, would not even call it a bottle) compared to that gallon jugs, which may or may not leak.
And now to the front windscreen, left side is with DP Glass Cleaner and right side with OPT Glass Cleaner.
Although it is quite difficult to differentiate, the OPT side actually has better beading as expected, they rolled off faster. (Video later)
Closer look. OPT side you can see the lines where water just rolled off, DP side you can still see the water beads hanging around. Now why would the DP side still beads? It isn't, the gradient of the windscreen caused it. Video will show later.
Opti Glass Clean & Protect testing - YouTube
To further demonstrate it, I used the Makita Blower and blew away at the windscreen starting at center to the left side first and then to the right. The blower stays stationary at center, just turning the nozzle left and right to be fair.
As shown, with only that little pass through, most of the waters got blew away on the right side with little remains. The left side, instead of flying off most of them just got pushed to the corner.
Verdict: No comment as this is just to show the presence of water repellant. But DP Glass Cleaner without water repellant, it is definitely recommended that you use 2 towels method, as this is done at night time, the temperature is causing streaking issue for DP. Furthermore without the water repellant polymer, it goes on especially rough (since we OPC-ed the windscreen leaving it clean and bare) where the glass towel got jumped and rolled a bit..
Finally, since it's my mom's car why don't I just do something good. I sprayed Pinnacle Glass Cleaner on DP side too to give it a complete water repellant across the windscreen. And one last final blow away.
Opti Glass Clean & Protect testing 2 - YouTube
Thank you and your precious comments and critics are welcomed.
