long scratch on side window

[Leon Hui]

There's a hefty long vertical-like scratch on the outside of my drivers side window.  I have no clue how it got there, although it awfully follows a rough path of how the window rolls up and down.  Coincidence?  Or debris trapped on the door window felt belt?

Anything I can do to make it less visible??

Or just live with it..argh

I hate this when it happens, I've already had my passenger side window replaced multiples times from vandals.

[John Hartman]

Leon, unfortunately, there is nothing you can do.

One day a few years back, we were bored at work (I worked for over 5 years in a detail shop) and so we tried for several hours to polish out scratches in windows.  We used heavy duty electric polishers and worked our butts off. We used very heavy duty polishing compound.  In the end you could not even tell we had done anything at all, except that our shoulders ached.

And if the scratches follow a pattern of how the window rolls up/down, its from sand/rocks etc trapped in the weatherstripping.

Sorry man  

[Leon Hui]

Damn rocks...stupid dump trucks...I park on the street and every day a train of dump trucks go up and down the street...

aRGH


You can't polish tempered glass, but you can polish the front windshield..

[John Hartman]

from my experience we couldn't get any differences on any type of automotive glass.

[Jesse Veitch]

I don't imagine you would be able to polish any type of any glass unless you were using a compound with diamond dust in it, glass is harder than the hardest steel, only thing that could have scratched it is a rock, a hard rock