glass cleaning
 

any good recommendations for cleaning and polishing the original side and rear glass before re installing it into the car

I personally don’t have any experience but a good friend of mine is a die hard Pontiac guy and he uses Eastwoods glass restoration kits and his cars don’t even look like they have glass in them ! It’s truly crazy how good his glass looks!

Please more!!! I have to be the world’s worst at cleaning glass on a vehicle. My wife says I just smear it.
I’ll read up about this Eastwood product.

Thanks

I have some experience in polishing glass. I did this on my 69 Camaro a few years back and posted it here. It's takes time but the effort was well worth it in my opinion.

https://www.yenko.net/forum/showthread.php?t=170172

Deep Cleaning:
Griot Clay Bars & Speed Shine

I have had success with glass cook top cleaner. It seems to be a minor abrasive not to scratch the glass, but to clean and polish it.

0000 steel wool

Cerium Oxide powder. Messy, but works.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07WHMFN7B...title_0_0&th=1

I can offer this experience based on a few years of glass experience.
There are a few snake oils that may work, I have never tried any.
Cerium Oxide is going to be the most effective. It will clean up the hairline scratches from years of dirty towels etc. For deeper scratches you can help minimize that Cerium polishing duration with a 3500 up to 5000 grit wet sand with plenty of water or in a water bath, Follow up with a Cerium Oxide polish.
The sanding of anything “deep” can leave a distortion or wave when clean and in the correct lighting, much like you would see in bodywork.
The key to both, or any part or the process is to not let get the glass get hot, that’s when it has a chance of popping.
Any grit polishing on the etch logo will wipe the logo away.

If the Cerium paste is drying up quick as you buff across it then the glass is to hot.

In the past I hired a scratch removal company that came to a recently completed project and was able to remove 95% of the scratches that the window cleaners damaged on about 20 units on a glass wall that had pieces 72 x 120, these were scratched bad, similar to a piece of auto glass that had a DA run across it with 80 grit. Yes the glass had some distortion but it faced north east so sunlight was not an issue, that saved the college a ton of money versus new glass and install.

I would gladly pay someone to get the scratches out of my windshield. Reading all that I have about cleaning scratches out of glass has me scared to death to try it.