[Marcousroony]

Aside from a good polish, what can I do about the microscrstches on my mkiv golf windscreen? I’m sure you could get them skimmed back in the day- but I may have misremembered. I had a previous mkiv which I had to have a new windscreen put on and the visibility difference was insane.

 

[northpole]

Polish only to my knowledge... there are some really good polishes for car glass though...

 

[Marcousroony]

Polish only to my knowledge... there are some really good polishes for car glass though...

Care to share? I’m a bit basic on that front

 

[northpole]

Look no further than the Autoglym brand even their oldest car glass polish takes care of faint scratches, and helps remove embedded stuff from the glass.

They are on the cheaper side... you could go for a more expensive ceramic solution but remember, that'll require you to deep clean the glass first. Where the polish can be applied right after a quick clean of the glass.

Both kinda have the same effect but the ceramic lasts longer.

 

[adam-]

Smash windscreen, get insurance to cover.

 

[Gti Fly]

Agreed with Adam. Get a new windscreen through insurance.


Polishing scratches out of glass is well, been there done that. Buy this kit buy that product. Watch this watch that. Complete and utter waste of time. Polishing out scratches in a windscreen is basically impossible.

Fk it all that time money and effort wasted when you could have just paid £75 insurance excess and have a brand new crystal clear windscreen

 

[adam-]

Not that I condone doing it, because it's fraud.

 

[northpole]

didn't say it because of the fraudulent nature of it... but yeah if you got full comp, or have extra glass insurance... well the solution is replace the windscreen... obviously a new one will be loads better than an old polished one. (and to be fair it is a defective windscreen anyway)

 

[adam-]

Is the scratch actually a crack?...

 

[northpole]

No he states micro scratches probably left behind by the wipers... that doesn't make it defective though... but a deep clean and a good polish should sort that out.

 

[Jollie02]

I've used a cerium oxide based windscreen polish on my old golf since I was too young to afford any windscreen cover on my insurance. It certainly done the job at removing those annoying micro scratches, was actually quite dangerous driving at night because of the extreme glare it caused. Would I recommend anyone else do the same? Absolutely not. Way too much effort plus you run the risk of overheating the glass and causing even more damage.