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Post by Pogo Sat Jan 25, 2014 1:18 pm

Windscreen for my moto has suffered both chemical and minor physical damage. I need to find a source in the Lakeside area who can polish it to clarity. Any suggestions / leads would be appreciated.

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Post by Guest Sat Jan 25, 2014 2:11 pm

There is a guy working the Walmart parking lot who treats plastic head light lenses and clears up the fog. He uses a very fine polishing agent and a super fine araisive paper. Worked wonders on my head lights. Maybe for your windscreen as well. He is honest so get his opinion.

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Post by Pescador Sat Jan 25, 2014 3:38 pm

Try Pablo's Garage, next to the Japanese Gardens #525.

Hours he has posted are 9-3 and 4-6:30.

Nice guy, if you can find him at the garage. He polished my headlight lens on my van when I had it. I had tried a couple different guys in the parking lots, who said they could do it. WRONG!!

Pablo uses a polishing machine and mine came out just like new.

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Post by Mainecoons Sat Jan 25, 2014 5:54 pm

Pogo, please let me know how that turns out as I have the same problem with the windscreen on my Beemer.
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Post by Pogo Sat Jan 25, 2014 5:57 pm

Mainecoons wrote:Pogo, please let me know how that turns out as I have the same problem with the windscreen on my Beemer.

Maincoons: sending you a PM re: Beemer.

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Post by Mainecoons Sat Jan 25, 2014 6:21 pm

Pogo, just replied to your PM with my email and phone number. There's a ride tomorrow to Tapalpa, join us!
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Post by jrm30655 Sun Jan 26, 2014 7:37 am

Pescador wrote:Try Pablo's Garage, next to the Japanese Gardens #525.

Hours he has posted are 9-3 and 4-6:30.

Nice guy, if you can find him at the garage. He polished my headlight lens on my van when I had it. I had tried a couple different guys in the parking lots, who said they could do it. WRONG!!

Pablo uses a polishing machine and mine came out just like new.

Goodluck,
pescador

If you can find a pilots supply store, they have kits to polish airplane windshields that are plastic.

It's been about 20 years since I've done one but there are 3-4 compounds and cloths. You start with one compound and go in one direction, then the second and go 90 degrees, etc. It takes about an hour to do a windshield but it works wonders.


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Post by sparks Sun Jan 26, 2014 9:22 am

Don't know what kind of plastic but if similar to headlights .... lots of YouTube and other directions. Lots of elbow grease on my headlights with compound and 1500 grit
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Post by Pescador Sun Jan 26, 2014 4:33 pm

HA! HA! NO YouTube, No elbow grease, just 20.00 dollars to Pablo and finished.  cheers

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Post by sparks Sun Jan 26, 2014 4:53 pm

How long does it last. A little polish will make it look good for a few weeks
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Post by Pescador Sun Jan 26, 2014 5:33 pm

sparks wrote:How long does it last.  A little polish will make it look good for a few weeks

Hey sparky,

A little polish wasn't the answer for my lens. The UV ray's from the sun had these lens completely fogged over.

This was done a year before we took the car to Texas to sell, and the lens were still like new. Pablo had a slow rpm polishing machine that he used on mine.

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Post by CheenaGringo Sun Jan 26, 2014 5:56 pm

A few years back, we stopped for lunch in Patzcuaro and a guy approached us to wash, wax and polish the headlights of our Ford Winstar. I allowed that $200MXN sounded like a decent deal and we agreed. So we took off for a leisurely lunch on Plaza Grande and some walking around. Probably were gone two hours and he was done. The wax job was more than adequate and the headlight polishing was still great two years later here in New Mexico where we not only get the high altitude UV effects but occasionally are forced to drive through sand and dust storms. Since we didn't stay around for the actual job to watch, I have no idea how he did it but I do know that we would have paid $20+ for just the headlight polishing here in Albuquerque!

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Post by sparks Sun Jan 26, 2014 7:10 pm

Just checking .... we have guys in front of the bank and Bodega Aurrera with a bottle and a rag wanting to re-new our headlights.
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Post by gvprod Tue Jan 28, 2014 4:13 pm

try toothpaste
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Post by Pogo Sun Feb 02, 2014 12:42 pm

Thanks one and all, but this is not a case of fogged plastic. This is a case of both physical and chemical damage. Someone painted and then tried to remove the paint from this windscreen. They first used some kind of chemical stripper; then used some kind of scraper. It's a mess for 1/16" of its thickness over the whole windscreen. I have seen these recovered, but it usually takes a professional plastics house. I just don't know where to find one. Sorry I wasn't more specific to begin with.   Need to have a plastic windscreen polished 477249

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Post by Pedro Sun Feb 02, 2014 4:02 pm

get a new one
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Post by gringal Sun Feb 02, 2014 4:25 pm

Pedro wrote:get a new one

Pedro..........WHAT is that thing on your shoulder or hand??? Shocked 

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Post by Pedro Sun Feb 02, 2014 4:30 pm

gringal wrote:
Pedro wrote:get a new one

Pedro..........WHAT is that thing on your shoulder or hand??? Shocked 
one of my moto buddies from ocotlan has his hand on my shoulder.
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Post by gringal Sun Feb 02, 2014 5:02 pm

Okay. That works. Otherwise.......hmmm.

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Post by Zedinmexico Mon Feb 03, 2014 8:10 am

gvprod wrote:try toothpaste


NO NO NO only toothpaste without floride in it.

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