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Old Feb 20, 2016 | 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.


















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Old Feb 20, 2016 | 07:26 PM
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Wow that is really weird. Is it on the outside or inside?
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Old Feb 20, 2016 | 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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Old Feb 20, 2016 | 07:44 PM
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Can you feel the specs? Try using a claybar on them.
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Old Feb 20, 2016 | 07:48 PM
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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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Old Feb 20, 2016 | 08:38 PM
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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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Old Feb 20, 2016 | 09:11 PM
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A chemical removal might also work. Definitely call a reputable detailed to fix it though
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Old Feb 20, 2016 | 09:21 PM
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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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Old Feb 20, 2016 | 09:33 PM
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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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Old Feb 21, 2016 | 03:20 AM
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Looks like just overspray, clay bar should make short work of it
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Old Feb 21, 2016 | 07:27 PM
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just use a claybar it should remove it....
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Old Feb 22, 2016 | 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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Old Feb 22, 2016 | 01:10 PM
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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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Old Feb 22, 2016 | 04:18 PM
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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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