My windshield is extremely blurry and has streaks all over the place when a wiper goes across, so today I bought some rain-x, ready to give it a good cleaning and rain-x application.
Normally when I wipe my windshield with a wet cloth, I can clearly see the area where the windshield wipers normally pass. There is a clear line between where they wipe, and the area it never wipes. Outside is a sort of reflective, bright surface, while inside the wiper area is dark, clear looking glass. Now, this is on every car I've bothered to notice, but I thought it was because the area outside wasn't clean.
So I first wiped every inch with a good amount of windex, to get all the dirt off. No change. So I decided to try a bit of isopropyl alcohol. Nope, same as before, just as big a difference between the two areas. So I tried some goo-gone afterwards, and it still doesn't do anything. I was getting impatient, so I just thought oh well, I'll just finish cleaning up the windshield and apply some rain-x.
Then I remembered that my wipers are probably pretty dirty so I wiped them with some isopropyl, and it created a huge dark black smear on the paper towel. I thought, wow, that's dirty, so I wiped it again. And again. And again. And it wasn't until about the fifth time, with almost no cease to the black stuff coming off, that I realized it might be the rubber being wiped off! I still don't know what it was, I've cleaned rubber things with alcohol before and it didn't do any apparent damage, so I hope I didn't just kill my wiper blades.
Well, onto the rain-x, I applied it twice as per instructions, and then wiped it off until crystal clear. Hopefully it works okay, and hopefully my windows were adaquately clean. It's supposed to rain tomorrow morning when I drive so I'll try it out and let you guys know.
So I guess my questions are, is my window clean from windex and a wipe of alcohol? And what causes the apparently permanent difference between the wiper path and the corners?
Normally when I wipe my windshield with a wet cloth, I can clearly see the area where the windshield wipers normally pass. There is a clear line between where they wipe, and the area it never wipes. Outside is a sort of reflective, bright surface, while inside the wiper area is dark, clear looking glass. Now, this is on every car I've bothered to notice, but I thought it was because the area outside wasn't clean.
So I first wiped every inch with a good amount of windex, to get all the dirt off. No change. So I decided to try a bit of isopropyl alcohol. Nope, same as before, just as big a difference between the two areas. So I tried some goo-gone afterwards, and it still doesn't do anything. I was getting impatient, so I just thought oh well, I'll just finish cleaning up the windshield and apply some rain-x.
Then I remembered that my wipers are probably pretty dirty so I wiped them with some isopropyl, and it created a huge dark black smear on the paper towel. I thought, wow, that's dirty, so I wiped it again. And again. And again. And it wasn't until about the fifth time, with almost no cease to the black stuff coming off, that I realized it might be the rubber being wiped off! I still don't know what it was, I've cleaned rubber things with alcohol before and it didn't do any apparent damage, so I hope I didn't just kill my wiper blades.
Well, onto the rain-x, I applied it twice as per instructions, and then wiped it off until crystal clear. Hopefully it works okay, and hopefully my windows were adaquately clean. It's supposed to rain tomorrow morning when I drive so I'll try it out and let you guys know.
So I guess my questions are, is my window clean from windex and a wipe of alcohol? And what causes the apparently permanent difference between the wiper path and the corners?
