I need to start off by saying I'm 69 years old and I've owned cars for almost 50 years. I'm wanting this board's collective experience for my wife's 2018 RDX. I am convinced that the glass used in this windshield is soft and perhaps inferior. This windshield started developing scratches from the wiper blades. In all of the cars I've owned I have never seen a windshield look like this. Ever. Even my 2014 CR-V has ZERO scratches and I've parked it right next to the RDX and have used the same Bosch blades on both. Not to mention after only 5 years from a quality car manufacturer like Acura. I've looked online for car glass polishing products and ended up buying this product from amazon that came with a smallish bag of pinkish powder, some pads, and something to attach the pads to but to use in a drill, perhaps. Nonetheless, I used my buffer with this powder but moistened. No change at all.

Have any of you had experience in polishing glass to rermove these scratches from wiper blades? Any products that will do the trick. Or do only the professionals have the products to do this?

 

I have done this. Wear a N95 mask or better while doing this. Cerium oxide is no joke. You need to make the powder into a paste and spread it on the windshield. From there, keep it a paste by spraying a tiny bit of water so often. Keep moving the pad slowly on the windshield, but don’t hold it one place. From there, it takes a very long time (2hrs more or less) to finish the windshield. After that, cleaning up the sling isn’t fun, and you should wax/apply a water repellant product.

 

Sounds like something I want someone to do. Thanks for the reply.

BTW, is there anything in the stores or online that is anything different than this pink stuff?

 

Not that I know of. I think the powder is the only way to go to remove the scratches.

 

Clay bar works pretty good on windshields but not sure if will help with scratches.