On 11/9/08, John Sessoms <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The inside has the accumulated grunge from vaporized coolant from running > the heater along with whatever other organic compounds are in your > expiration when you're cooped up in there in the winter. One thing it hasn't
The biggest offender in terms of messing up the windows inside the car is the volatile compounds that evaporate out of the plastic and vinyl in the car. > Has anyone found a way to clean the inside of the windshield that doesn't > leave residue? Windex automotive formula. Clean the window out in the sun, so you can see the streaks/residue. Clean it 3-4 times. You'll need to do that to get all the streaks off. Don't be shy with the cleaner and the paper towels. While you're at it, clean the top of the dash, console, glove box, etc. Amazing how much dirt accumulates. > And has anyone found a reasonable method of cleaning the outside that might > fill in and smooth out the weathering? The best you're going to do is the Windex again, following up with a coating of RainX. This has the added bonus of helping you see in the rain. But it's still not going to help the pitting much. Around here, where they put sand/salt on the roads in the winter, the insurance companies will actually pay for a new windshield if the pitting gets too bad. Provided you have glass coverage, of course. > I'm not trying to get it clean enough to shoot through, just clean enough > so I can safely drive to locations even when it's late in the afternoon and > the location is to the west. Good sunglasses will help too. Polarization may or may not help with the glare on the window. > BTW, peak color is definitely passed for the Blue Ridge Parkway in southern > Virginia. There was some color left south of Asheville, NC this morning, but > even that's fading fast. A friend of mine was hiking up in the Great Smoky Mountains two weeks ago. He ran the gamut, from green down in the lower elevations, peak color in the mids, to bare trees at the upper elevations. Leaves here are all gone, and on the ground. Time to rake... -Mat -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
