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I'd almost forgotten what a huge difference it makes when you replace a scratched, hazy old windshield with a brand new one.
Before:
After:
Seriously though, it's so very nice not to have the blinding glare anymore. At the age / mileage our cars are getting to be, pretty much everyone here would benefit from having the glass replaced, even if it's not actually broken. $280 out the door, including installation and tax.
Yeah, I've been meaning to do that. My FD needs a windshield too (small chip in it), so I should probably have a mobile guy come do them both at the same time.
Joe Perez I was scrounging in thrift shops and found this today and immediately thought of you. Not that much info on the googles but it seems like it was a pricey piece of kit in it's day.
You know anything more about it? Got it for $5 because no one at the store even bothered to google it.
Joe Perez I was scrounging in thrift shops and found this today and immediately thought of you. Not that much info on the googles but it seems like it was a pricey piece of kit in it's day.
You know anything more about it? Got it for $5 because no one at the store even bothered to google it.
Interesting. Seems to be an interlacer for creating a frame-sequential 3d signal from two different camera inputs.
We don't do any 3d production in broadcast TV, largely because there's no ATSC standard for it, but mostly because we're curmudgeons who don't want to rebuild the whole plant architecture yet again.
I'd almost forgotten what a huge difference it makes when you replace a scratched, hazy old windshield with a brand new one.
[... blurry then in-focus pics...]
Seriously though, it's so very nice not to have the blinding glare anymore. At the age / mileage our cars are getting to be, pretty much everyone here would benefit from having the glass replaced, even if it's not actually broken. $280 out the door, including installation and tax.
I spent some time this weekend with some cerium oxide, rayon pads, and my DA polisher. I was prepping my windshield for hydrophobic glass coating. My car is 6-1/2 years old and I was astounded how pitted the windshield was. I have zero haze problem because the window is clean AF now. Also a microfiber (cheap **** from HD is fine) does amazeballs wonderful things for the inside of windows that are hazy from outgassing. A couple slow wipes across the clean window will remove that haze for a long time.
Per the recommendation of a seasoned racer, I scrubbed the windshield of my showroom stock Miata with an abrasive counter cleaner (comet/bonami) before each race and then coated it in rainX after a good wipe-down. Aside from cleaning all the racing fluids from the pits, the abrasive must have softened the edges on all the pits/knicks because they no longer "glowed" with refracted sunlight.
I just drove to a reputable auto glass business, had a nice cup of tea while they installed a new windshield, and let my insurance company pick up the tab.
Turns out I qualify for one windshield replacement - among other things - every year, per my insurance policy.
No other car I have ever owned got this many "craters" and overall environmental abuse than the Miata.
The windshield is practically a wear item on these cars - replace windshield, plugs, t-stat and pcv every spring.
The windshield is practically a wear item on these cars - replace windshield, plugs, t-stat and pcv every spring.
This is true.
I've replaced the windshield on all three of my Miatas thus far. It's an astonishing improvement. It's also puzzlingly odd how these cars seem unusually susceptible to... not damage per se, but just ordinary wear and tear of the windshield. Pitting and scraping, split between "randomness" and "perfectly follows the path of the wipers."
Y8a, I once tried a polishing technique similar to what Y8s described. It was on my '90, with about 230 kilomiles on it at the time. Spent an hour pouring all kinds of elbow grease into it, and didn't produce satisfactory results. Maybe if I'd have given it a few more hours I'd have been successful, but this is one of those areas in which I've come to learn that sometimes it's best to just pay someone else to make the problem go away completely.
Last edited by Joe Perez; Oct 31, 2018 at 09:15 AM.
I've replaced the windshield on all three of my Miatas thus far. It's an astonishing improvement. It's also puzzlingly odd how these cars seem unusually susceptible to... not damage per se, but just ordinary wear and tear of the windshield. Pitting and scraping, split between "randomness" and "perfectly follows the path of the wipers."
Y8a, I once tried a polishing technique similar to what Y8s described. It was on my '90, with about 230 kilomiles on it at the time. Spent an hour pouring all kinds of elbow grease into it, and didn't produce satisfactory results. Maybe if I'd have given it a few more hours I'd have been successful, but this is one of those areas in which I've come to learn that sometimes it's best to just pay someone else to make the problem go away completely.
^Last sentence earns a cat.
Here is my totally super clean windshield:
And I apologize I guess. A half second after this photo was taken, a cute girl in short shorts ran by in front of me. She's probably millimeters from swinging her foot into the frame on the right.
By the way, a Miata's windshield is about tire-level for half the cars on the road. No surprise it's a wear item.
Seeing all these recent posts of old band-AIDS has made me a bit nostalgic. Im glad things have progressed as far as they have, but I still enjoy looking at the frankenstein hacked stuff that used to be the norm. No sane person would ever put something like this together in 2018:
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