long story short: my 13 year old daughter used the wrong stuff to clean the windshield which left a nice soapy coat on the windshield. I asked her to please use windex and clean off the soap scum, but it had dried on and was not too easy to get off. In her not smartest move, she grabbed a scrub sponge from the kitchen and proceeded to get all the soap scum off and leave me with a number of very minor scratches on the inside of the windshield.

These are really minor and not noticeable unless the light hits them right, but they are very annoying. I have no idea how to get rid of them, save getting a shop to buff them out. I seem to recall hearing somewhere about a compound that you can apply to glass surfaces, but I think this was in relation to scratches on a TV, and I'm not sure that hand-buffing will work... Other windshield repair kits seem to be for chips and not these minor scratches

Any ideas as to what to use? Anyone used the hand buffing compounds with success? Should I just take it to a shop and get it buffed out? If I do, what would that cost (since won't they have to take the windshield off to get the buffer to touch the inside of the windshield?)?

Anyone want to remind me that I love my daughter (which I do, very much...) and that doing stuff like this is just part of being 13?

Heh. Was this one of those "just trying to help!" moments, or was this your just just desserts for trying to get around child labor laws? :)

-brendan

Noxon brass polish will remove small scratches and swirl marks from glass.

Just apply it to a cloth and buff it to a nice 'like new' shine.

It will actually repair the glass, not just cover it up. It has a compound that smoothes out the scratch. It glass magic!

JJ

They also make specific Glass Polishers that contain mild abrassives that get out hazing, road film and minor scratches. You should be able to find in any autoparts store.

I've used Zaino Glass Polisher on my Mom's Sonata which has always had a hazy winshield and it worked extremely well.

Zaino is only available online at zainostore.com their products are not cheap but I haven't found any car cleaning products that work better.