How To Clean Your Windshield and Save Your Wipers - Clay Bar Method
Mark gives us a quick tech tip on how to completely clean your windshield using glass cleaner and a clay bar.
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Nice vid. Well done.. Gonna give it a try. Thanks man👍.
Love your products
Great tip. going to give that a try A tip back is once clean use Rain-Ex on the screen. It reduces the effort of the wipers even if mud gets on the screen and in many instances you can drive in rain with out wipers at all.
@eastwoodco
Жыл бұрын
Love us some rain-x!
The passion of windshield
@ethanwasme4307
Ай бұрын
i feel called out
That method does work well. I’ve done that several times also. Another method that works well is scrubbing the windows with a bar of Lava soap and using 99% isopropyl on the wiper blades. The lava soap scrub will also remove hard water spots. Clay bar does work well on everything though including glass and paint.
@karamjitsingh9584
9 ай бұрын
Hello buddy my car windshield has a big rainbow spot my ac is over the top of the car the water drip from ac fall on windshield what can i do for the spot to clear clean help
I used to do similar with fine steel wool, razor blade bird bug crap off first, but always wiped down blades when at gas station doing the quick clean on trips and nearly every time had passenger, was first time they seen that done.. I said tired of buying wiper blades??? Just picked up some clay bars this year, never used before, if that bar collected the crud do you toss it after, is it junk now?
Will that easily take Off the water spots too?
Never saw the bag trick, I've used 4 ought steel wool to do the same for years, clay bar sounds great also.
@eastwoodco
Жыл бұрын
Yes! that will work too!
Have you ever claybar the window that has the radio antenna built in it
I tried this works great. I used a ceramic window coating after
@eastwoodco
8 ай бұрын
Excellent!
When I used to smoke I would check the fallout contamination on paint by putting 2 fingers in the cellophane wrapping a glide it over the paint. I think it worked better than a plastic bag.
@eastwoodco
Жыл бұрын
oh nice!
@Mike.Jones2
Жыл бұрын
Yeah we use to do the same thing after sanding particle board
I use a glass polish with a buffer and it works good for
@eastwoodco
Жыл бұрын
nice!
Also you can rub some transmission fluid on old wiper blades to rejuvenate the rubber and make them good for a little longer 💪🏼
@eastwoodco
5 ай бұрын
We've heard that too but would recommend just getting new blades, you don't want to have transmission fluid smearing up your windshield.
Took my wiper blades off and clayed them gently too. Took a lot of bebri off
Will this help stop my wipers juddering in the wet?
@eastwoodco
Жыл бұрын
Couldn't hurt!
I don't think I know what a clay bar is. Where do you buy one and are there different types? Can you ise it on the inside windshield? Thats the one I have a terrible time getting streak free. Anxious to try it.
@eastwoodco
Жыл бұрын
www.eastwood.com/griot-s-garage-paint-cleaning-clay-8-oz-11153.html?+&+&+clay+bar+windshield+cleaning
@SuperBiotope
Жыл бұрын
Had the same problem with streaks. Until I watched a KZread video with someone using only hot water and a little washing up liquid. Worked amazingly well and never had streaks since. Worth a shot if you still have these issues.
can I reused the clay bar? TY
@jennydiez8020
11 ай бұрын
Yes, many times. Plain plumbers putty works too and is a lot less expensive.
The ink from the newspaper is the best to clean any type of glass...
Your my hero
Hey i need help man, my windscreen is leaving streaks when i switch on the wipers....though the Windscreen is getting clean from water, but some kind of FOG is staying on the windscreen, from which its very difficult to see out of...when it rains, and you use ur wipers
@eastwoodco
28 күн бұрын
Does this continue when you turn on the defroster?
@IbrahimKhan-tp7dn
28 күн бұрын
@@eastwoodco Yes, it's only happening when i turn the wipers on, I've bought a clay bar set just to try to get it off, but a car mechanic said, my glass is damaged and needs Buffing/Machine Polishing .
nice video thanks
@eastwoodco
4 ай бұрын
Glad you liked it!
You should mention not in the hot sun doing this.
@eastwoodco
Жыл бұрын
ohh good call!
What grit is this claybar? Can I use a 300 clay bar for my front windshield? 2013 Honda Accord with 114k miles original owner and never ceramic coated. It's been my daily driver beater car.
@eastwoodco
Жыл бұрын
We have a "Fine" Clay bar that should do just the trick www.eastwood.com/eastwood-concours-premium-clay-bars-fine.html
Thanks. Next time I go over to mom and dad’s house I will clean her windshield and not say a thing.
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I have also used razor blades and 4xxxx steel wool ,old school.
I just use waterhose
Or just use 0000 steel wool.
@eastwoodco
Жыл бұрын
Yup, there's a couple ways to get this done
Didn’t work for me
There is wax (or SOMETHING) on mt windshield. You can see it in all lighting but it's really bad in certain light/angles. I've tried...... intense rubbing wirh alcohol, acetone, gasoline, clay bar and 9% hydrochloric acid toilet cleaner. NONE of that has removed it! I'm just gonna wond up getting a new windshield because this is permanent! 😡
@eastwoodco
2 ай бұрын
You can use #0000 steel wool and a window cleaner, that is very good at getting that kind of stuff off glass.
Fresh wiper blades straight out of packet will have that black junk on them.
use news paper instead of paper towels.
@sunoclockoneday2576
Жыл бұрын
A buddy taught me that trick 25 years ago . It takes a little while to get the paper saturated to work correctly but it is a streak free finish
@frankh.3849
9 ай бұрын
Wait what's a newspaper?
@NoNameNoFace-rr7li
9 ай бұрын
its those things you put in the bottom of birdcages @@frankh.3849
@RoughRaiders13
9 ай бұрын
@@frankh.3849😂
@user-ne4fd1cx5p
3 ай бұрын
@@frankh.3849 he was born 15 years ago it’s paper with news on it it’s like a tv with a paper towel on it it’s more of paper then news but a newspaper
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