Water mark stains
 

Hi everyone,

I've been lurking around the forums for a few months. I recently got my rx8 TI grey MT, anyways after I picked it up from the dealer and got home. I noticed there are water spots over all my windows, windshield, and the rear view mirrors. Not a big deal can't really noticed them from the outside but I see them when Im driving, it can get very annoying. First I thought they would clean right off after the first wash, then I used a clay bar, still nothing. I also used windex that did not work either.

Im guessing how the water spots got there is from the dealer leaving it out in the rain and never drying the car after they wash it.

Anyways If anyone knows a good product to get rid of water marks on car window or anything information would be greatly appreciated

if the spots etched your glass you're pretty much screwed. I would suggest trying some daily shower cleaner with a microfiber cloth. I had water spots on my glass and it removed them. Just keep the rag very wet and don't push hard.

Thanks for the tip, Ill try it this weekend. Any specific brand of shower cleaner you used?

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You can use an acid that is safe to use on most windows and painted surfaces. It's not to be used on the windshield because it can ruin the wipers. They use it at the detailing shop at the toyota dealer I work at. It's by a company called Auto Magic. http://www.automagic.biz/solvents.htm

Try Zaino glass polish. I used it and it worked great. I could really notice a difference at night.

Thanks for the tips! I just ordered some zaino glass polish, Tried to remove the water spots today with some shower cleaner. Used that on one mirror and used vinegar mixed with water on the other one. Both worked great, mirror with the shower cleaner smells better tho :lol:

claybar?

Yeah i have water spots on my spoiler =-(

if you tried all those things it sounds like the glass is etched (your screwed)

I park my car inside the garage 95% of the time, but yesterday I had it parked in the driveway. The sprinkler's came on during the night, and the water spots baked in the 98 degree heat. Now, I am left with some pretty noticable water spots on the hood of my black 8. I washed it, then used the clay bar, then washed, then waxed....to no avail!
I then read about using a 50/50 mix of water/vinegar. This did nothing as well. Does anybody know if an acid-based product would do anything? Can this even be buffed out?

Here's a picture...

http://i31.tinypic.com/von974.jpg

http://meguiarsonline.com/forums/sho...&threadid=7011

there you go. should come out by hand, would definitely buff out with some other products, but the scratchX should take that shit right out

yeah no worries if nothing else buffing will take that out for sure.

I tried ScratchX by hand, and no results with that either.

take it to a good recon shop and have them buff it. dont atempt to do it yourself, it takes alot of practice to buff without burning through edges and ruining the paint job.

I dont know if its safe for windshields, but earlier today i was cleaning some harshly waterstained glass patio stuff with Sunny Bright water stain remover it it got rid of most of it on the first try and eventually got about 95% of it. I thing you can buy this at ACE hardware???

Thats probably what I'll end up doing. Hopefully it won't cost me an arm and a leg.

i know things are more expensive out in cali but i know around here it cost about 200 for a compleate recon inside and out so if you go there and tell them you only want the water marks removed i would think it would be around 75$ which sounds like alot but its cheaper then a whole paint job, and my guess would be the longer the stains remain there the harder they will be to get rid of

Is this done @ a body shop or detailer? I'm not too familiar with 'recon'.

I heard use jeans with water can remove water marks. Don't know if it is gonna works.

recon is short for recondition, so that would be a detailer, unless you have a freind or something at a bodyshop id be afraid that they would try and rip you off by trying to say they would have to repaint it.

Dudes, last weekend we went to a detailing party and I saw something from GriotsGarage.com that works great. If you have access to a random orbital buffer (or lots of time), they have a new glass polish that took really bad water stains off of a Mazda 6. Unless you have a really old car, don't bother with the fine polish. Just call them, they'll sort you out.

for glass- Spray Away.

if you're going to pay $200 to get a detail job, then might's well buy a Porter cable & some high quality polish and learn to do it yourself. :)

paint/ clearcoat maintenance is an on-going thing. water spots come & go & come back again. learning how to take care of it yourself is an invaluable skill. and, it's kinda fun too.

p.s. dark color cars also require the most maintenance. just that everything shows up on black. there are some areas on the car that u cannot reach with the orbital too and just have to live with. my exp at least.

^^^^^ x 1,000

Meguiars makes a paint cleaner that works really really well. I even tried it on my headlights where there was some issues and it worked very well.