Remove scratches from cabriolet rear window?
 

Dumbasssss....on my big adventure driving the new 965 c4 cab back from denver, i used a standard ice scraper one time to remove a light snow from the rear window instead of a brush with soft bristles. it isn't horrible, but at night i can see little tracks i left from the scraper. any ideas how to remove them? my brother actually uses armour all to remove scratches from instrument cluster plastic covers. anybody done this...?
ryan

At the very least, use a plastic polish. They are easy to find. There are also products available at the dealers (those that have cabs in their model lineup, anyway) for polishing the plastic. I know Little Rock doesn't have a Porsche dealer but I seem to recall Mercedes is there. They have it.

JR

Ryan,

3M makes an excellent plastic polish that I've used to remove scratches from plastic lenses. Try it and see if it helps...

thanks, guys. yeah, jr, we have riverside motors here in little rock for mecedes.

art - do you find the 3m product at autozone type stores? napa?

Meguiars Plastx works well for me. You must baby the plastic window . . .

Ian

still can't believe i did it. looks like sweeps of corn rows from the ice scraper..hopefully not too deep, though. i was being gentle, just had no idea they were so fragile. plus i was freezing my arse off at the time and wantinf to roll! :)

Use the PlastX as mentioned to remove the scratches by hand. Keeping the window clean using 303 or Plexus or treat with Klasse All in one. Always use a microfiber towel when drying and be careful not to stain your top!

not familiar with these products. looks like i have a little to learn about cab window maintenance.. :eek:

Plexus is supposedly the best cleaner for plastic. http://www.plexusplasticcleaner.com/about.html

Klasse is a German acrylic polish. The All in One forumula has a cleaner in it. There's lots of information at autopia.org about cleaning and protecting plastic. Try not to get a headache when you go there.

If the gentle approaches suggested above fail, try toothepaste.

Go to a motorcycle shop and get some polish. Probably cheaper than the car places.

Or try an RV shop, plastic windows on trailer tents/campers get scratched a lot (I know the bigger RVs your side of the pond use glass windows - my Lindy is all glass).

Other place you could look is a chandlery/boat shop, lots of marine plastic polishes on the market aimed at boat owners, Dolphinite used to do one.

I use the Farecla one here in the UK on my Cab and our motorhome, brilliant product. I have seen Plexus in action and that is pretty good also. Microfibre all the way.

wow...lot's of great advice. i hardly know where to start, but sounds like i can't go wrong! :) thanks!

The boat shop is a good idea. Years ago in the hifi biz a guy was marketing a turntable dust cover fix called Krystaline. It worked for any plastic or acrylic & really cleaned them up. He bought the stuff in 5 gallon pails from the boating industry . . . probably what Meguiars & everybody else do . . .

Ian

Another vote for Plexus. I've used it on the airplane's windows for a while, and tried it a on the Miata's soft rear window. Wow. Now I keep a can at home for the Miata.

Of course, my 911 is a coupe, just the way the good Dr. Porsche intended.