Re: Windshield scratches: experience with cerium oxide?

On Mar 22, 8:36 pm, zwsdot...@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
On Mar 22, 8:19 pm, "John S." <hjs...@xxxxxx> wrote:

grit in a squeegee. The scratches can't be felt with a fingernail, so
they seem to be candidates for cerium oxide polishing.
passes across the glass. Why not go back to whoever damaged the glass
and have them replace it.

That would be me. Because the scratches are so light, I couldn't see
them as I was squeegeeing.

I wonder about temporary fixes, like just waxing it; i've had
sometimes reasonable improvement with scratches on my glasses with all
those wonder treatments that slightly fill the scratch, and make them
a little less distracting. The best was a long time ago, a kind of
waxy slightly pink plastic that you scrubbed on the glasses and
polished off so that it didn't remain on the rest of the glass, worked
better than those dunk liquids they sell now that cover the whole
lens. Anyway, just 'taking the edge off" the scratch seems to be one
of those things where 20% of the work gets you 80% of the benefits.
Which also makes me wonder whether the same goes for cerium polishing
of the windshield, where taking just the edges off the scratch might
reduce the distraction a lot.

.

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