Ah hah, I've spent many of my 25 years battling this problem and I think I
can help. The film is from the plastics in your car "de-gassing" or
whatever, and I've had some pretty ridiculous examples of this thanks to my
parent's fascination with vinyl seats. If you try to use regular paper
towels and Windex, you just smear it all around. The first thing to do is
to go to Target or somewhere and buy an alcohol-based window cleaner
designed for cars. I tried the one made by Rain-X and it worked fine. Note
this is NOT Rain-X, but the Rain-X brand auto glass cleaner. For some
reason alcohol is much better at dissolving this stuff than ammonia. The
second problem comes from white paper towels. The white bleachy stuff they
use leaves its own streaks and residues. This is going to sound really
weird, but the best stuff to use for cleaning car glass is newspaper.
Crumple it up and start wiping. I'm sure you are cringing at the thought of
all that black ink getting on your windows, but for some reason this really
does work well. I didn't believe it until I tried it. Hope that helps!
Peter Thana
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Phil Esra [SMTP:philesra@hotmail.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2000 3:48 PM
> To: ba-autox@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: Three runs in Round 6?
>
> I had to miss this event, but, if there's no time for fun runs with only 3
>
> runs, that seems to answer the question!
>
> phil
>
> ps oh, while I'm thinking about it--I've been getting this weird film on
> the
> inside of my windshield. I clean it off, and it gradually reappears. It's
> kind of oily. Its appearance seems to have coincided with using armor-all
> on
> the dash, but that was a long time ago now. Anyone have a theory? How do I
>
> make it go away for good? I cleaned the armor-all off the dash, but that
> didn't seem to help...
>
> thanks!
>
>
> >From: "Jerry Mouton" <jerry@moutons.org>
> >To: "Bay_Area_Autocross_List" <ba-autox@autox.team.net>
> >Subject: Three runs in Round 6?
> >Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 15:13:54 -0700
> >
> >Well, folks, what was your impression of having only
> >3 runs for Sunday's event? I had fun, even with 3 runs, and
> >there seemed to be a lot less stress and pressure on
> >people running the event. 258 and through pretty early.
> >But of course, not time for any fun runs -- just time to breathe.
> >
> >Maybe it's worth it for local events? What do you all
> >think?
> >
> >Jerry
> >
> >Jerry Mouton mailto:jerry@moutons.org Laissez les bons temps
> >rouler!
> >
> >
>
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