This is worth repeating. SprayWay is a great product and won’t hurt your aftermarket gangster window tint. Just don’t use too much. A light spritz is all it takes. I used to slobber it on there thinking it would “cut” that film, but it just makes a streaky mess.
I think Sprayway used to contain ammonia but it doesn't now. Almost all of them use alcohol as the main ingredient.Has Sprayway changed their formula? It seems like the new stuff doesnt cut heavy soil like bug guts or bird **** very well. Not that those would be on the inside of your windshield, unless you drive in reverse a lot.
For outdoor use, I usually end up dispersing more of the aerosol version into the wind than where I want it.
I use a special cleaner with all my phones, tablets and computer screensI think Sprayway used to contain ammonia but it doesn't now. Almost all of them use alcohol as the main ingredient.
Back when I subscribed to a daily newspaper, the newsprint made great lint free paper for cleaning glass. It's kind of hard to do with my tablet.
I figured it was from the dog.
I tried the squirt bottle of Invisible Glass and it was awful. We use Sprayway for the glass shower enclosure and it's great.
new car makes it worse -- the film is plasticizers leaving the plastics in the car's interior. The rate at which they sublimate goes down over time.
Wow, the whole “add $0.99 on the price and people still just look at the first digit” thing really does work.
Time, or a different (not new) car. Some car interiors release a lot of plasticizers into the air, and some don't. Hyundai IIRC was the first to switch to a polypropylene based plastic that doesn't off-gas, probably because it's cheaper. Other manufacturers prefer plastics that aren't as brittle, probably because brittle plastics lead to assembly issues when tabs snap off. Well, nothing lasts forever, so you get a few years of smeary glass, followed by glass that stays clear but all your interior plastic rivets snap when you look at them. Sure, it's not that simple, because lots of other things lead to plastic embrittlement, but plasticizer loss is one of them.
I noticed that my license plate had only one screw holding it on. So I bought some replacement stainless steel screws and then I went to remove the still remaining screw. I barely breathed on it and it snapped off. That's when I realized it was plastic. Incredibly crazy Brittle plastic. I had to drill them out, obviously.
What model? Or even better, pictures?Buy an old car, I don’t have a problem with plastics offgassing in the ‘54 Woody wagon
Yeah, you can't win there. Metal plate screws rust, plastic ones snap and leave your plate on the roadside when you hit a pothole. Stainless can be ok, if you keep an eye on it, but lots of stainless that spends it's time around brake dust and road salt starts to rust. Just look at Cybertrucks and DeLoreans.
I keep seeing newspaper on this thread. 40 years ago, newspaper was the best glass cleaning option. It was a coarse grained unsized (or at least hardly sized) paper that was designed to both accept printer's ink well, and assist in that ink drying as fast as possible. The ink itself, again in the need for speed, would be overloaded with carbon black, because less binder dries faster. That would get carbon black all over your fingers as you read the paper, but it would also rub the carbon into the scratches in your glass, reducing haze and glare, at least momentarily.
I bet you will every time you re-varnish everything.Buy an old car, I don’t have a problem with plastics offgassing in the ‘54 Woody wagon
@rlitman very informative.... Never have thought of some of this.Yeah, you can't win there. Metal plate screws rust, plastic ones snap and leave your plate on the roadside when you hit a pothole. Stainless can be ok, if you keep an eye on it, but lots of stainless that spends it's time around brake dust and road salt starts to rust. Just look at Cybertrucks and DeLoreans.
I keep seeing newspaper on this thread. 40 years ago, newspaper was the best glass cleaning option. It was a coarse grained unsized (or at least hardly sized) paper that was designed to both accept printer's ink well, and assist in that ink drying as fast as possible. The ink itself, again in the need for speed, would be overloaded with carbon black, because less binder dries faster. That would get carbon black all over your fingers as you read the paper, but it would also rub the carbon into the scratches in your glass, reducing haze and glare, at least momentarily.
None of the above applies today with the advent of post-consumer recycled newsprint paper that is dusty as hell, and with the demise of linotype, the paper is now sized to minimize ink usage (for even higher speeds of printing), which means it's no longer all that absorbant.
If you've still got a basement full of your grandfather's newspaper clippings... well it might work for cleaning glass (I doubt it though, because the high acidity of the paper base will make it all crumbly). but you also have other issues.
I bet you will every time you re-varnish everything.
