Home Forums Gear Hunting Trucks and Four-Wheel Drives Cleaning film from windshield.............

My vehicle's windshield has a film on it that defies cleaning with Windex. What can I use to remove this? I am a non-smoker, don't know about the vehicle's previous owner.

Use Windex and instead of using a paper towel, use news paper. There's something about the ink, I think, in news paper that helps clean glass real good.

I've been really impressed with SprayWay. It works extremely well on every glass surface I've tried it on, including the car window.

I found it at Home Depot, and it was pretty cheap, too.

FC

Sprayway is the best glass cleaner you can get ... period. Some Ace Hardware stores also carry it.

If it's organic TSP will remove it. A even more aggressive approach is using acetone.

On the exterior glass surfaces of my truck I had some nasty road salt reside (I think) that the above wouldn't remove so I buffed it off with some ultra fine grit paint polishing compound/swirl remover.

The one other thing that's tough to remove from glass is lime or calcium deposits. Limeaway or CLR will clean it but I found it's easier to just buff it off.

Sprayway is ethyl alcohol. Just use that. Or rubbing alcohol.

As a last resort, try lighter fluid. It will dissolve about anything. Keep it off the dash, though. It's also good for removing tar spots on the paint.

You can try ceramic cook top cleaner........worked on my impossible to clean windshield. I haven't tried but was told that 0000 steel wool also works.

SprayWay did the trick, no more hazy film.

Glad it worked for ya.

I notice that the haze reappears faster when I'm using a sunshield: maybe the cheap plastic breaks down faster than the car's dash does? I dunno.

For me, anyway, I'll take more frequent windshield cleanings if it means the car is 15-20 degrees cooler when I get in it.

FC

I used to get that haze thing. Replaced my heater core and it stopped. Turns out the antifreeze leak was sending fumes or something up the defroster and screwing with me........

This is for the outside, but I knew a truck-driver that kept an old tobacco sack full of tobacco that he would soak and use to get the bugs off his windshield. Bugler I think. miles

I've had that happen, too. Same problem, same cure. I didn't know what was causing it until the leak got bad enough to smell it.