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Windshield scratches: experience with cerium oxide?

My new car (only a month old) has scratches on the windshield from grit in a squeegee. The scratches can't be felt with a fingernail, so they seem to be candidates for cerium oxide polishing. Unfortunately the scratches are all half the width of the windshield, and both halves have these scratches - so I'm gonna wind up polishing about 60% of the entire surface of the glass, it's not just one or two spots.

I'd like to hear from someone who has used this material; specifically, I'm worried about clouding. At the moment I have a usable, but annoying piece of glass; I don't want to make things worse :)

I'm willing to invest a day's work polishing this if it will save me $350 for a new windshield.

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== Check your deductible on comprehensive insurance coverage. After finally realizing the scratches can be a safety hazard under certain lighting conditions, I was able to have the windshield replaced with a factory original for no charge.

tedious process, like an hour for a couple of square inches, then move to the next spot. Plus there is the potential to introduce unevenness in the finished glass surface.

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Daniel

It's $500 (plus, most likely, an increased premium when I reinsure. Insurance companies are not designed to pay money but to make money...).

My father-in-law has a junker car in his driveway, I'm tempted to scratch the windshield and then try to polish it out just to see what it's like.

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zwsdotcom

You will have to be an energetic worker to polish out an area that large. And I doubt that you will have the equipment to make even passes across the glass. Why not go back to whoever damaged the glass and have them replace it.

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John S.

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

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