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Old 02-20-16, 07:18 PM
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Pics are of windshield, rear windshield and all 4 windows. There is these tiny, specs that is all over my windows all the sudden. What the hell happened to my car?!?!!? IT's looks like someone thought it would be cool to wrap my windows with a galaxy theme but there is no wrap. Just recent tint on, but theres no way that caused that....Is this repairable or am I 100% effed (i would imagine the cost to replace all of this would be $5k-$10k, might as well just take a sledge hammer to the car and total it out) oh and I just bought. Niceeeeeeee.


















Old 02-20-16, 07:26 PM
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Wow that is really weird. Is it on the outside or inside?
Old 02-20-16, 07:28 PM
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Originally Posted by M1AH3A7
Wow that is really weird. Is it on the outside or inside?
It seems only the outside. My car was recently washed at a place I don't normally go. Something to do with it? couldn't see it during the day.
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Can you feel the specs? Try using a claybar on them.
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Did you park under construction. I had something like that happen to my wife's van and it turned out to be some sort of ceramic debris from construction above a building. I threaten to sue the construction company so they agreed to hire a detailed to claybar it off. It took the dude 6 hours and he still wasn't able to get 100% off.
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Originally Posted by doodlebug
Can you feel the specs? Try using a claybar on them.
Very few. Mostly not at all.

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Did you park under construction. I had something like that happen to my wife's van and it turned out to be some sort of ceramic debris from construction above a building. I threaten to sue the construction company so they agreed to hire a detailed to claybar it off. It took the dude 6 hours and he still wasn't able to get 100% off.
No, not that I know of. So claybar seems to be the only way?
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A chemical removal might also work. Definitely call a reputable detailed to fix it though
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Is it only on the windows? Looks like it could also be paint mist of some sort.
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Originally Posted by chyeea03
Is it only on the windows? Looks like it could also be paint mist of some sort.
Yea only on windows. However i noticed some new scratches that look similar on the front bumper. I just had the thing polished today. Looks great except the windows :/ they didn't attempt to fix the windows. I didn't know it was so bad until I took pics at night with flash.
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Looks like just overspray, clay bar should make short work of it
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just use a claybar it should remove it....
Old 02-22-16, 11:50 AM
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claybar might scratch the windows...

that looks like it could be tree sap. if it is, it's water soluble, and just need a good deep wash.
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Griot's Garage sells a glass cleaning clay bar, along with glass polish and other items specific to glass.

http://www.griotsgarage.com/product/...eaning+clay.do
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Honestly it just looks like dust and or dirt to me..

Why don't you try grabbing some windex and newspaper and try cleaning them first before getting worked up that you might need new glass.
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