Rain-X removal

I have created a problem on my wife's 2003 300M Chrysler.
I cleaned the windshield, then applied Rain-X. Somehow that application ended
up streaked, so I wanted to remove it and re-apply. I used a windshield polish
that has worked well for me before in removing all the road tar, sap etc. Since
applying the polish, I have cleaned it every way that I can think of - Windex,
castrol Super clean, soap and water etc but it still has a haze to it. Nearly as
I can tell it is a combination of Rain-X and the carrier for the polish.
I'm at the point of taking it to a glass shop.

Any suggestions?
Texas Parts Guy

On Tue, 14 Dec 2004, wrote:

> I have created a problem on my wife's 2003 300M Chrysler. I cleaned the
> windshield, then applied Rain-X. Somehow that application ended up
> streaked,

When that happens, the fix is to buff the windshield with a damp (NOT
wet!) soft cloth.

> so I wanted to remove it and re-apply. I used a windshield
> polish that has worked well for me before in removing all the road tar,
> sap etc. Since applying the polish, I have cleaned it every way that I
> can think of - Windex, castrol Super clean, soap and water etc but it
> still has a haze to it. Nearly as I can tell it is a combination of
> Rain-X and the carrier for the polish.

Clean cloth and denatured alcohol, step one.
Glass Wax, step two.

wrote:

> I have created a problem on my wife's 2003 300M Chrysler.
> I cleaned the windshield, then applied Rain-X. Somehow that application ended
> up streaked, so I wanted to remove it and re-apply. I used a windshield polish
> that has worked well for me before in removing all the road tar, sap etc. Since
> applying the polish, I have cleaned it every way that I can think of - Windex,
> castrol Super clean, soap and water etc but it still has a haze to it. Nearly as
> I can tell it is a combination of Rain-X and the carrier for the polish.
> I'm at the point of taking it to a glass shop.
>
> Any suggestions?
> Texas Parts Guy


Brakleen.

On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 12:39:54 -0500, "Daniel J. Stern" > wrote:

||On Tue, 14 Dec 2004, wrote:
||
||> I have created a problem on my wife's 2003 300M Chrysler. I cleaned the
||> windshield, then applied Rain-X. Somehow that application ended up
||> streaked,
||
||When that happens, the fix is to buff the windshield with a damp (NOT
||wet!) soft cloth.
||
||> so I wanted to remove it and re-apply. I used a windshield
||> polish that has worked well for me before in removing all the road tar,
||> sap etc. Since applying the polish, I have cleaned it every way that I
||> can think of - Windex, castrol Super clean, soap and water etc but it
||> still has a haze to it. Nearly as I can tell it is a combination of
||> Rain-X and the carrier for the polish.
||
||Clean cloth and denatured alcohol, step one.
||Glass Wax, step two.

Makes sense. Smells like alcohol is the carrier for Rain-X.
Not familiar with Glass Wax.

Texas Parts Guy

On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 16:25:20 GMT, ) wrote:

>I have created a problem on my wife's 2003 300M Chrysler.
>I cleaned the windshield, then applied Rain-X. Somehow that application ended
>up streaked, so I wanted to remove it and re-apply. I used a windshield polish
>that has worked well for me before in removing all the road tar, sap etc. Since
>applying the polish, I have cleaned it every way that I can think of - Windex,
>castrol Super clean, soap and water etc but it still has a haze to it. Nearly as
>I can tell it is a combination of Rain-X and the carrier for the polish.
> I'm at the point of taking it to a glass shop.
>
>Any suggestions?
>Texas Parts Guy

imho,

I don't know what happens when you mix products, but if you buff with
a soft cloth, it usually removes the excess rainx film.


For removal, I was told in the past that a lightly mineral spirit damp
cloth will help with the wax removal on glass. This might work here,
but I've never tried it.

later,

tom @ www.CarFleaMarket.com

On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 12:08:53 -0600, Steve > wrote:

wrote:
||
||> I have created a problem on my wife's 2003 300M Chrysler.
||> I cleaned the windshield, then applied Rain-X. Somehow that application
ended
||> up streaked, so I wanted to remove it and re-apply. I used a windshield
polish
||> that has worked well for me before in removing all the road tar, sap etc.
Since
||> applying the polish, I have cleaned it every way that I can think of -
Windex,
||> castrol Super clean, soap and water etc but it still has a haze to it.
Nearly as
||> I can tell it is a combination of Rain-X and the carrier for the polish.
||> I'm at the point of taking it to a glass shop.
||>
||> Any suggestions?
||> Texas Parts Guy
||
||
||Brakleen.

Actually I tried that.
Texas Parts Guy

On Tue, 14 Dec 2004, wrote:

>> Clean cloth and denatured alcohol, step one.
>> Glass Wax, step two.

> Makes sense. Smells like alcohol is the carrier for Rain-X.

Yep. Silicone solution in an alcohol carrier.

> Not familiar with Glass Wax.

Introduced in the '30s, it was a glass cleaner that came in a rectangular
"bottle can". You wiped it onto glass, let it dry, then buffed it off.
Made glass disappear; the blue stuff in the spray bottle doesn't
even come remotely close.

Looks like the company that made it for six decades just discontinued it.
Idiots. A longtime stockist of the stuff, Vermont Country Store, has had
the same stuff made elsewhere, labelled it "Window Wax" and is once again
selling it. www.vermontcountrystore.com item number 43208. It's in with
the Xmas decorations 'cause the other use for it was to apply it to
windows and leave it on to make 'em look frosted up.

DS

> wrote in message ...
> I have created a problem on my wife's 2003 300M Chrysler.
> I cleaned the windshield, then applied Rain-X. Somehow that application ended
> up streaked, so I wanted to remove it and re-apply.


Do you *really* want to reapply?

"David" > wrote in message
...
>
> > wrote in message ...
>> I have created a problem on my wife's 2003 300M Chrysler.
>> I cleaned the windshield, then applied Rain-X. Somehow that application
>> ended
>> up streaked, so I wanted to remove it and re-apply.
>
>
> Do you *really* want to reapply?
>
>

I've found that a second or third application clears things up.

As a longtime user of Rain-X, I've learned these lessons...

1. When they say the windshield should be clean first, they mean it.
Otherwise you're dissolving dirt and road film and smearing it around
and letting it re-dry. (The resulting problem can be cured by
repeating the next steps, but is probably best avoided.)
2. Let it dry before polishing.
3. Polish with rags that have been well rinsed and have *not* been
treated with fabric softener... or used with furniture dusting aerosol
or other such residue-laden products. Or use paper towels.
4. After polishing 'round and 'round, polish back and forth with a
clean rag.
5. Water or window cleaner is often useful as the finishing touch.

That way you'll have a streak-free and glare-free windshield in fine
weather that repels rain water in foul weather.

Hope it helps,
--Joe

PS. Not directly related but worth looking at with winter coming on:
how are your wiper blades and their inserts?