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Re: best way to clean windshield?

To: "Curtis Strilchuk" <cs75@netscape.net>, <dragonflyc@juno.com>
Subject: Re: best way to clean windshield?
From: "Steve Ashcraft" <ashcraft2@home.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Nov 1999 18:11:04 -0500
Your insurance company may actually be willing to pay for it. Hard to
believe but true.
Steve
----- Original Message -----
From: Curtis Strilchuk <cs75@netscape.net>
To: <dragonflyc@juno.com>
Cc: <autox@autox.team.net>
Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 1999 1:39 PM
Subject: best way to clean windshield?


> Date: Mon, 22 Nov 1999 22:49:05 -0500
>   From: Thomas L Brewsaugh <dragonflyc@juno.com>
>   Subject: non autox content: best way to clean windshield?
>
>   May one of you team.netters can help me out. The windshield on my
>   daughter's car is really streaked up. Its not to bad to drive in day
>   light but is pure h**l at night. I have installed new wiper blades and
>   used all the cleaners I have around the house with no luck.What makes
>   this so important is she almost had a head on accident tonight due to
>   miss judging distance when she tried to pass a motor cycle. Both the
>   other car and cycle went off the road and I've just finished talking
with
>   the cycle rider as he followed her home.
>
>   thanks for any help
>   Tom Brewsaugh
>
>
>
> Tom,
> Is the car fairly high mileage / highway driven? Over time, the
winsdshield
> will get pitted from the sandblasting action of road grit, thrown up by
the
> vehicles ahead. The pits cause spurious, specular highlights at night, and
> trap grime causing the streaks. No amount of cleaning or blade replacement
> will help. If this is the problem, you'll have to replace the windshield.
[Can
> you sense the 'been there, done that' tone?  :) ] It worth it, though. You
> literally won't believe what you can see!
>
>
> Curtis Strilchuk
> '86 RX-7
>
>


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