vinyl windows

[Martin Harms]

Hi,

I am sure this must have been discussed oodles of times before but I am
new to this list. Cannot seem to find in archives though. So here it
goes: has anybody ever found a good way to polish out scratches in the
rear vinyl window? I have tried 3M polishing compound and also a plastic
model polishing paste but with limited success. Only the very, very fine
scratches have cleared. The German MX5 club recommends a paste sold by
BMW in Germany for that purpose on BMW convertible vinyl windows. Seems
to have originated from boat supplies. They have more and larger fold
down windows apparently...
Experience with that anybody?

[Ian Chapman]

We had great success with a Mothers plastic window polisher. We had a
few big wide scrapes and some small scratches when we bought the car and
these are substantially better. I recommended it to another MX5'er and
they also said it made a big difference. Make sure you have someone
support the other side of the window with a towel as you polish it
because you need to put a bit of elbow grease into it.

I can get the exact product name tonight if you wish.

Ian

[Muscles]

i have some stuff called greygate plastic polish, it works really really
well on aeroplane windows. its possibilities for you, well it may be the
same only taking out the smaller scratches, ive never needed to try it,but
as i said it works well, i can send you some if you like. i have never seen
it in a shop.

[lou Girardin]

Try Meguiers plastic cleaner and polish or 303 protectant from Topfab in
Henderson.
Lou

[EricW]

Good old fashioned "Brasso" used to work well on plastic aircraft windows,
with "jewellers rouge" (used for polishing watch faces) doing a good job on
deeper scratches.
(I suppose you can still buy Brasso, come to think of it, I havent seen any
for years)!

Regards

Eric

[Rex Johnston]

On Fri, 2003-09-12 at 07:29, Eric & Ann West wrote:

Good old fashioned "Brasso" used to work well on plastic aircraft windows,
with "jewellers rouge" (used for polishing watch faces) doing a good job on
deeper scratches.
(I suppose you can still buy Brasso, come to think of it, I havent seen any
for years)!

Yep, brought some the other day.
Toothpaste might work too.
YMMV

Cheers, Rex