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Anyone try the new formula Gel Gloss Glass Wax Cleaner?

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  1. don2222

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    Hello
    I was so impressed when I was young by the original glass wax in the pink metal can with the red swing up cap. However it was discontinued 40 years ago! I just learned that the same manufacturer has a new formula in a new plastic bottle! It is sold at Ace Hardware for $4.99 OnLine and some stores may have it in stock! Got 2 bottles and ran out to try it on my car windshield! Definitely better than anything else I ever used! Nothing is perfect but if applied and buffed off correctly it works very well. :)
     

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    Does it take out the crazing on plastic headlight covers? We used to use a product called Mirror Glaze for that.
     
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    Does that work well?
     
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    We used to use on our airplane windows all the time as they weren't glass but a type of plastic. It made it easier to look out with the sun on the window. The crazing didn't show up as much.
     
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    Your glass has plastic coating on it right? Part of the not cutting you in half in a wreck and being a safety thing. I don't believe you are actually polishing glass but instead the plastic coating on the tempered glass. Kind of like a the cheap modern headlights. I could be wrong, but this was explained to me by a safety officer years ago.
     
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    No , this new glass wax will destroy plastic or ceramic glass. I use the Maguires plastic polish for the plastic headlights lenses. :)
    This new glass wax is only for Real Glass :)
     

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    That vinyl is sandwiched in between two layers of glass. You can’t touch it.
     
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    X2 — The plastic layer is sandwiched between 2 layers of tempered glass on a car windshield so the glass wax goes on real glass.
     

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