Pinnacle GlassWorks water spot removal nightmare.

swanicyouth said:
Maybe its not a factory coating, maybe something that was put on by God knows who at the dealer or wherever. Anyway, I don't own the Pinnacle stuff. Someone has to chime in who does. I've never heard of AG mislabeling a product, although drug companies do it - so I'm sure its possible.

I use either CeriGlass or PB's Pro Polish. Water spots always came right off for me with any AIO, so I couldn't see buying a product just to do that.
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Could be some aftermarket glass coating or something I guess.

For the most part I've always used regular paint compounds and polishes on glass since they aren't harsh enough to actually scratch glass but cut more than enough to remove water spots or any other film or whatever might be there especially when used with microfiber pads.

Logan Powers said:
Man. I showed my customer the swirls in the brinkman. It's gonna be near impossible to get it back to 100%. It would be one thing if its my car. But he is super anal about these things.
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All Golf R owners are nuts about little details, I am one and belong to a forum full of them you should read some of the things we nit pick about. :laughing: Do you still have the car? Or did you return it? At this point I'd be throwing a hail Mary of trying some regular compound like FG400 or D300 if you have either of them with microfiber pad because it's not like they're going to make it worse. Of course, try at your own risk but that's the route I'd try with fingers crossed. I know D300 didn't harm my Rs glass since I used it on every window and the sunroof and all it did was remove the dealer installed water spots. Just not sure it will actually cut enough to remove those swirls the other stuff caused.
 
Well, again why I love this company. Nick gave me a call and checked all his product for me (with out me asking) and made sure that the stuff I'm working with is the correct product. (And it is) I made an order for CeriGlass and the CarPro Rayon Glass Pad

I do think this will be the last window I touch for a customer. Way to much hassle.

Props to an awesome company who cares about there customers.
 
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Logan Powers said:
Well, again why I love this company. Nick gave me a call and checked all his product for me (with out me asking) and made sure that the stuff I'm working with is the correct product. (And it is) I made an order for CeriGlass and the CarPro Rayon Glass Pad

I do think this will be the last window I touch for a customer. Way to much hassle.

Props to an awesome company who cares about there customers.
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You don't want to give up. You want to learn from the experience. When you get the Ceri Glass and the pads, you will need a spray bottle with DI water. You need to use the polish sparingly, but keep spraying to keep it wet.

What machine will you be using ?
 

I have used the Pin WSR polish. It is very gritty.

It almost sounds like you didn't work it long enough to break it down fully. If it dries up you need to add a few mists of water and keep working.


 
Well great news. I fixed the glass.

Nick called me and gave me the run down on the best product that I could use to fix this problem. He suggested CeriGlass by CarPros. And their glass polishing pads.

First I tried using the Pinnicale GlassWork and the CarPro Glass Pads. It made the situation worse. Not by much but It definitely didn't make it better.

Then I used the CeriGlass. This product is way more aggressive because it has the cerium oxide. It worked wonderfully. It finished to or better than before. I used the water mist technique. Took me about 10 min for the rear window and 5 for the side!

I am going to try the pinnicale on my wife's car with terrible water spots on her rear window. It's so bad it's hard to see out of it at night. This time ill use the CarPro Glass Pad and see how it works.
 
Glad to hear you got it sorted out. I wonder how aggressive ceriglass and the glass pads actually are? The windshield on my truck really needs to be replaced since it's sandblasted to hell from winter highway driving when I had an hour commute each way to my old job. I'm not sure any polishing will save it really but am a bit curious about ceriglass.
 
I have read some reviews on doing pits in the window. It would take all day. It's best to just get the powder and mist water with it.

Don't use a DA. You would deff need a rotary if you wanna make any progress.

It would be worth my time, sweat, blood, and tears to buy a new window. You can get them cheaper than you think. Installed out the door less than 200$ most timeS
 
Wow, these continuing glass stories keep making me think about the 3M abrasive disc system I saw and whether that is better or even more of a disaster in the making.
 
swanicyouth said:
Great news.

What tool did you use with the CG and CP pads?
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That would be my question as well. Usually DAs don't "cut it" when it comes to glass.

Very glad to hear that you fixed the problem. I had great success with Ceriglass and Rayon pads in the past.
 
I used my Pc7424xp with 5 inch CP Rayon Glass pads PN: CP-5711.

It finished extremely well!
 
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