How to remove glass contamination? Or is it..

[vash68]

I got lots of tiny shiny spots on my car's glass, most of it is on driver side windows, and some on passenger side. I think they appeared after the car came back from bodyshop (for a bodykit installation), and of course they deny everything.

At first I though it was a stray spray of clear coat. It is not visible on paint since the car is silver.

I tried removing it with acetone, steel wool, razor blade, Autoglym glass polish (by hand), but to no avail.
If this is clear coat, should I be able to remove it?

I can not confirm that this is etching, since the spots are so tiny, but what type of chemical available in body shop would etch the glass??
And is there a way to improve/mask this problem?

The car is 2009 BMW 535
Thanks

[Rsurfer]

Give Car Pro's Ceri Glass a shot.

[SATMAN40]

Flitz AG sell it to clean and shine metal, used it the other day on a vet t top. about 10 bucks a tube,

[szjalo]

few things come to my mind:
1\ try clay
2\ if you have any good band compound, give it a try before using Ceri Glass
3\ Is it tinted window? Those light spots may be the areas where the tint failed to bound very well? I saw similar things, almost all on tinted windows, kind of like a clear coat fail but on tinted layer. If that's the case, then maybe nothing you can do to "remove" it

Just my 2 cents

[habeba86]

If steel wool and a razor couldnt get that off glass, idk how much luck youre going to have. Can you feel it at all?

[Bates Detailing]

Try NuVite C Grade - expensive has hell - but usually gets anything off windows (used as an aluminum compound) I use this product all the time for difficult issues including but not limited to glass.... my "uh oh what else can I use" product.

[Setec Astronomy]

OP, I don't think you mentioned, and I don't think anyone asked, are the spots raised? Can you feel them when you run your hand over the glass?

[Mike Phillips]

Don't have any idea how these pinhole dots came to be in the windshield of Max's AMG but they did, so it's possible.

How to remove tiny pinhole pits in glass windows using a rotary buffer

Tiny tiny tiny pinhole pits in the glass

[vash68]

OP, I don't think you mentioned, and I don't think anyone asked, are the spots raised? Can you feel them when you run your hand over the glass?

Good question, I am not 100% sure myself.
The dots are so small that when I run a finger over them I barely feel maybe 3 out of 20 of the dots, which leads me to believe these are tiny pits. Especially after razor blade failed to remove them.

Do I have to "level" the glass now?
Is it easy enough for a casual detailer like myself?
Will read the links provided Mike. That masked AMG looks scary..
How do you get pinholes overnight on a 2 yo car?

Thanks guys for input

[Rix6]

How do you get pinholes overnight on a 2 yo car?

Thanks guys for input

Welcome to the world of today's glass windshields! Compared to older cars, new car glass has gone soft. It doesn't take 2 years to get pitting in a new windshield, it takes two seconds behind a sand truck or less than 200 feet behind a vehicle at highway speeds on a road that has sand or some other loose, fine aggregate. Our paint's gone thinner and our glass has gone softer. It's a bad joke! At some point in the not so distant past, cars could go 100,000 miles and not see the same kind of damage from wear and tear that a new car owner can pick up in the first month of ownership. Beware that tailgating and passing unclean vehicles or even clean vehicles with sticky tires on less than clean roads puts your front glass as well as your paint at risk. Even if you're passing these vehicles so you don't get stuck in their trail of filth, you are momentarily putting your paint and glass at high risk. Sadly, perhaps the best solution is prevention in the form of staying far behind any risky car or truck. IME, if you hear stuff peppering the windshield of your new or newer car, you will see pinhole sized pitting damage as a result.


-Rick