So when i was off to college, my car sat on the driveway getting hit by the sprinklers on some weeks and now i cannot get it off of my drivers side window and the right side of my windshield. Any suggestions to get it off?? I've tried the regular wash, rain x and white vinegar. White vinegar worked the best but there its still there, just not as noticeable now from a distance.

 

do you use those microfiber towels? the ones that you're suppose to " be able to wash with out water" lol which i'd never do but you can.. I use this to clean my windows and it does a great job with a little windex / rain x spray it on there rub it in and try to clean it up and then flip it over and use the dry side to get any scum stuck on there and to dry up any remaining streaks.. Though I do still have water spots on my roof from when the tint guy put tint on my car.. i have no clue how that happened I think its the glue from the tint he sprinkled on the inside or something..

Try one of them microfibers

 

If the white vinegar was helping, you could continue to apply it until your results stop improving. A stronger alternative for glass is you could apply the white vinegar using some 0000 grade steel wool for some extra bite. If you go this route, I'd mist the window with some vinegar, then mist some vinegar on the steel wool and gently work it into the glass.

Beyond that, you can resort to polishing your glass using a glass polish or light abrasive polish you'd use for your paint.

Hopefully one of those solutions does the trick for you.

Good luck,

George

 

don't use rain-x that's for sure

 

well rain-x has a windex equivlent with the rain-x solvent in it which still repels water at the same time as cleaning.. which is why I use to clean all the outside of my windows works great

 

Would the vinegar remove protectants as well as the spots? And how effective is this on older spots?

 

Vinegar would remove coatings of protection if you had them on the glass.

Basically what the vinegar does is help remove mineral deposits remaining on the glass (or paint). If the water spots have etched into glass (or paint) then vinegar won't do much on those and you have to resort to abrasive polishes to level the etching.

Hope this helps,

George

 

thanks for the tips, i think they might have etched onto the window. Pretty much the whole year i was a college, my car was home outside sometimes on the driveway getting hit by the sprinklers, so they have been there for some time and i saw this once college was done. And i washed the car probably like 3 times when i came back home over the whole year at college. so im sure they had a long time to dry. Ahh wish my parents would have washed it every now and then

 

On that note, what's a good glass polish or polish to use on windows? I saw one on the Zaino website, might try that one unless there's a polish that works.

 

Pretty much owns the water spots on glass issues....

 

I'm gonna say it sounds like you are not gonna be happy my friend. I just worked on a cars glass for several hours the other day that had horrible water spots all over the glass. I tried the vinegar, Wolfgang paint cleaner, M105 and SIP. The SIP (Menzerna Super Intensive Polish) actually worked the best and removed almost all of it (using a rotary polisher) but boy did it take awhile. You should try the steel wool and then go for some compounding polishes. GOOD LUCK!

 

I bought some stuff from Honda it was about 5 bucks its like a paste it worked out real good maybe I can get the name and report back to u 2morrow dont feel like going in the garage right now LOL

 

well i got soap water and some kind of brush type of thing. And taht seemed to do the trick, while 100% of it is not gone i would say its like 80%. I would have done more but i thought it was all clean. Hopefully i can get the rest off later

 

Slipped my mind that we were talking about glass.