Removing scratches from windscreen

Any ideas? Scrapped the ice of the car this morning and must have had some grit on the screen/blade, now got 2 nice scratches across the drivers side of the windscreen

if you know anyone with a machine polisher they could have a go with an aggressive compound and a cutting pad.

Glass is tough to polish scratches out of though.

Time to upgrade to a heated window washer system

What's with the heated washer system. Where are they available from? These really should be standard fit to all UK spec. cars. We are in April and my windscreen was frozen solid this morning.

My Dad used this company a year or so ago..........not cheap but the results were fantastic.

http://www.glassdoctors.co.uk/scratc...n%20glass.html

Will see if I can find a link or 2 later.

You can get heated jets or systems that heater the water as it leaves the bottle.

Definitely handy to have in the winter.

To get heated washer jets, just find out what cars have them fitted, visit that marques local dealer and buy a pair. you might find ones that slip straight in, but you'll probably need a wee bit of bonnet surgery. I often toy with the idea of getting a pair and just wiring them into an ignition live, assuming that i don't overload a circuit in the process

heated washer jets are ok but the rest of the pipework needs plenty of lagging to prevent water from freezing in the pipe the jets can be glowing red but if the water cant reach the jets they are going to do sod all..

Apparently Ford haven't paid to update the patent on the Quick Clear windscreen so fingers crossed Fiat will be able to pick it up in a couple of years.

as for wiring them up logic would say wire them in with the heated rear screen....

As for the OP's Q

Try your car insurance normally £60 excess on damaged glass

build a garage

Next time either hose it with water or unload a few buckets of warm water instead of scrapping

I've started using (cold) tap water as de-icer. Works very well.

RE the heated jets - 'usually' it's just the jets that freeze due to windchill. If you're using proper screenwash then the fluid should be OK down to really really cold adn heated jets would suffice. I do know one guy that altered the routing of his scooshy pipes to run them over the top of teh engine bay. By the time he was finished, his pipes held more screenwash than the screenwash reservoir did.