I also use Sprayway and have for a couple years. Also good for plastics and no ammonia. I get it at Costco and in a blue can.
i have an auto detailing business,,i like the invisible glass too,,,,,,, i use two towels, a microfiber (wash it first though) and a terry cloth,,,,,spray cleaner on the window, clean the glass with the microfiber, and use the terry to polish,,,,,im fussy,,,,,and this works the best for me... also make sure the windows are cool to the touch (VERY important,,,,hard to get a streak free window when the glass is hot or even warm)..
Clearly, there is no doubt about it. The best stuff for avoiding streaks on glass (and the cheapest) is to use good old vinegar and water mix. Wipe off with newsprint ONLY for flawless clarity. Much better and cheaper than Store Bought stuff, in my opinion. Or... go buy the stuff off the shelf and take potluck! The proof is when you are staring into the sun!
i am a detailer at a mercedes benz dealer, we use hospital sheet rag, synthetic rags, t shirt, towl etc just dont seem to get quick strek free results, towel leaves lines and lint and t shirt just spreads the window cleaner around, we ran out of hospital sheet rags once and tried etherything we could find but nothing worked, also at another place i worked we used this blue cloth from a hand towel thingo wich wasnt to bad, we are using meguiars concentrated glass cleaner, sometimes when its mixed to rich it hazes after a week. if you really dont want streaks use a glass polish, you wipe it on let it dry and wipe it off, also if you want a shine on old glass give it a good rub with some felt and cerium oxide mixed with water, even better buff the glass by machine with a hard foam pad making sure every thing is clean, any grit will leaves nasty rings, even better again use a proper felt glass buffing pad. disadvantage is its messy and neads alot of cleaning up afterwards.
that or i've used windsheild washer fluid in an old windex bottle....anything works well if used ( obviously ) out of direct sunlight. Derek
I cant believe no one has said good old methylated spirits! A spray bottle, use straight in a cool climate or dilute with water in warmer areas. I use the hospital sheet to Cleon (I have dozens of them), news paper works well too. You do get metho in the US? Hell we even used the good ol' metho sprayed onto our feet to help harden them up in the Army. Its good stuff and if your hard up a little orange juice and metho and drink...... Doc.
all that shits nasty for you to work with methyl alcohol glycol polypropylnol all shit we used in water to make it not freeze for doing windows in winter
The solution isn't the problem the process is. I was dealership detailer for 2 years, I made my own mix of dish detergent, vinegar and water. But I used to use newspaper but eith the change over to soy based ink, that tends to now put more stuff on than it takes off. If it really bad, I use a small windhsield squegee like the ones at the gas station with the nylon scrub deal over the rubber foam core. Spray agitate and squegee off. Repspray and using a clean blue detailers cloth, or micro fiber cloth reclean the glass a section at a time, then immediately go over the area with a clean dry detailers cloth. Then turn the cloth ove and polish with the new dry side. for the ext window or section use the first dry rag and the new wet one, and get a new dry one for the polishing. Have also found that a light coating of final detailing spray applied to the inside and polished off after the glass is clean, keeps the schmutz off between cleanings. And just think all that chemical crap out gassing form you new cars plastic, carpets and adhesives is not only going onto the glass, its going in you lungs.......
I think on newer cars, the 100% plastic interior sort of sweats out some slimy plasticizer crap which winds up condensing on the insides of the windows. I think that slimy stuff is what's so hard to clean off of the glass, since most of the glass cleaners just sort of smear it around instead of dissolving it. So using something that's pretty rough like newspaper or heavy duty rough paper wipers works good to sort of scrape that crap off. I wonder if some sort of oily solvent like mineral spirits would work to get most of the slime from the plastic off first, and then when that's dry, follow up with normal glass cleaner. When I installed a windshield last time into a frame, there was some greasy smeary stuff on the glass that didn't seem to want to come off in windex, so I used mineral spirits. Then I followed up with Windex, and it finally came clean.
I find newspaper works great as well. But I was given some Snap-on brand glass cleaner and it works great.
I bought some cheap "leaves no streaks" glass cleaner at Menards, thinking in the back of my mind that it would be worthless. Turned out it's the best glass cleaner I have ever used. It's called Sparkle, it comes in a purple bottle, AND it's ammonia free.
Ditto the sparkle stuff, it works wonders, though it isn't cheap. I detailed my way through college for a small hi end dealer. He was the pickiest man I've ever known. But it led me to this: Dawn, Vinegar, & Water will clean anything. Then WAX the windows! Streak free EVERY SINGLE TIME! And it helps them stay clean too!
Started off with Eagle's Shake n' Shine, but have used other automotive wax including Turtle Wax's Minute Wax (less work, less lasting finish, but great if you're about to have a car looked at by a client).
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