How to Super Clean Your Windshield with Steel Wool

[Music] today we're gonna demonstrate how to super clean your RV windshield and this goes not just for your RV but for your tow car or any other car as well to make this a little easier to demonstrate I'm gonna do this on our towed today not on the RV but the process is exactly the same regardless of what kind of windshield you're doing here is everything we need to do the job some invisible glass rain-x a couple of old t-shirts or other rags an old sock the most important part of all four ought steel wool make sure you're using the finest steel wool available and that would be the four aught now I'm not sure you can see in the video how many bug bodies are on our windshield here but you know how it gets so we're just gonna take the steel wool and just start rubbing I know you're probably thinking that this is going to scratch the glass it will absolutely not scratch the glass I learned this from an auto detailer that this is a little trick of the trade they know for getting off just about anything that's on the glass including it was really difficult to get rid of water spots it will get rid of all but the very worst of those water spots so just keep on rubbing it doesn't matter if you go back and forth or in a circular motion it doesn't make any difference just keep rubbing and what you're doing is polishing the glass and physically scraping off anything that's on it now I've been polishing this side of the windshield now for about five minutes I've done the entire driver's side here already you'll notice that this piece of steel wool doesn't look any different I can use this one piece of steel wool to do windshield five or ten times nothing happens to it and as long as you keep it dry it won't wear out of course if you get it wet it's gonna rush you're gonna be able to get off very specific spots it's like when you're waxing you see a little spot that needs extra attention just keep rubbing on it and you'll see it will come out obviously it's not going to get stone chips out or anything like that but it's going to remove all of the microscopic dirt and debris that's stuck to the windshield and if you want to get a quick idea about the difference that it makes run your hand across the side of the windshield that you haven't done yet and then rub your hand across the glass here and it feels like it's been waxed it's incredibly smooth I got the whole windshield done here it took less than ten minutes and that's really carefully scrubbing looking for any little spot to make sure I didn't miss anything you'll notice I didn't clean the windshield before I started doing this it's not really needed unless you have you know huge bug bodies hanging on your windshield here or you've you know got a lot of mud on it or have been driving when it's in the rain a lot since the last time you wash the car you really don't need to wash it first unless it's really bad there's the whole thing completely polished up feeling incredibly smooth now we're going to apply some rain-x to our old sock and we want to put this on pretty liberally just make sure you don't get any rain-x on your car or RV paint now we're gonna take that damp section of our cloth and begin applying this in a circular motion thoroughly covering every surface of the glass put it on just like you'd apply car wax to the paint and a circular overlapping motion make sure you get right into every corner completely covering the surface and you can see when it goes on where you've done even though it's clear you can see it adhering to the glass kind of like a film may not be able to see it in the video but I can clearly see where I've done you want to put on a little more sprinkle it right on the glass I apply it pretty liberally you want to make sure that you cover every surface don't miss any areas or you'll see that after you're done the first time it rains you'll see it anyway you don't have to push particularly hard while you're doing this just want to make sure you get complete coverage and now we're gonna let that dry until a slight haze appears again exactly like applying car wax I'll just let it sit for about ten minutes until it gets a little hazy and dries a bit and now we're gonna just wet our cloth a little bit more not too much now we're going to do it again right on top of the first coat and this doesn't take that much rain-x to do I haven't put any more on this cloth and I showed you on this video I probably used all of a quarter or a third of a cup total to do the entire windshield it doesn't take a lot you just want to make sure that you really thoroughly rub it onto the windshield and cover every surface now I'm gonna let the second coat dry and here in the bright sunshine it's not gonna take very long we'll just wait about ten minutes our rain-x is nice and dry and you probably can't see it in the video but if you were to look at it in person you'd see that it looks kind of milky streaky like you'd expect a thin coat of wax to look on your paint you can obviously see that there's a film coating the windshield so we're gonna do is we're gonna take this old t-shirt that we've wrung out and it's it's pretty wet but it's not dripping and we're just gonna wipe off the windshield now when rain-x first came out the instructions on the bottle said to use a dry cloth to remove it and they changed that to where it says you can put some water on now and the reason they did that is because removing rain-x with a dry cloth doesn't work very well you won't get it all off and it's very difficult and this is a breeze so this is the big trick to using rain-x is to make sure you use a nice wet cloth and I'm not even really rubbing I'm just kind of wiping back and forth across the glass now I'm gonna use my other cloth the dry one to drive the windshield down it's very very smooth and you're done with the outside of the glass and if you feel it it feels like a freshly waxed paint job once you're driving along at a pretty good speed the rain will just zip right off the glass you'll use your wipers a lot less and the clarity of the glass will be extremely improved and we do the side windows and the rear view mirror as well but they don't need to be redone very often because there is no windshield wiper scraping back and forth across it you'll find that the windshield needs to be done more often because the windshield wipers will wear it off one little trick to help your rain-x last longer on your windshield and have the wipers not wear it off so quickly is to take your cloth with rain-x on it and actually rub it on to the wiper blades and wet the wiper blades with rain-x as well while we're discussing glass I have to mention my favorite glass cleaning product invisible glass it is so completely different than Windex or other products like that we've been using it for years it works better faster and we love it in the house for doing mirrors insides of windows whatever it's wonderful it goes on more quickly than any other product we've seen and it does a better job and less streaks wipes right off it's a great product and that's how you super clean your windshield for a better view [Music]

Channel: RVgeeks

Views: 9,529,279

Rating: 4.6889005 out of 5

Keywords: steel wool, windshield, rv, motorhome, car, glass, super clean, travel, camp, camper, camping, trailer, 5th wheel, fifth wheel, auto

Id: D05vX-G9iV4

Length: 9min 1sec (541 seconds)

Published: Tue Aug 23 2011

Reddit Comments

[u/jagger27]

You really have to make sure no dirt gets caught in any of your cloths or the steel wool. Spraying them out on the ground isn't a terribly good way to do that. Having a dirty windshield to start would not help either.

[u/Domowoi]

Use a clay bar and no steel wool. That way you are less likely to ruin your windshield.

[u/titans856]

My dad marred the crap out of his G37 windshield with steel wool. Just gotta be careful.