It does make the windscreen slightly hazy. But I think it's a price worth paying.
re your BTW - by being careful! If you move the sponge around on the roof, and the bonnet & metal sides, and then throw a watering can of water over it (yes, I live in a London street and have to keep the car round the corner) then you won't get much more than a splash of wax on the windscreen. Then use a proprietry glass cleaner on the window.
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Yep - hazy is what I got. It sounds like it might be easier for me to wash the car in my normal haphazard manner and then just use the glass cleaner thoroughly as you've described prior to applying any RainX. I'd never thought about wash/ wax causing problems potentially so once again I leave this place better educated than I entered.
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My brother swears by Halford's Professional car shampoo which he says doesn't have wax in it, but instead uses something else (surfactants?) to achieve the same effect. Haven't tried it myself.
I think that to avoid smudgy screens and juddering wiper blades it is well worth being a little less haphazard with the wax.
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I used rainX once, and found it was OK at very high speed, but cause a load of beading droplets at low speed and when the wipers were put on, it smeared as the water sort of spread over and millions of microscopic beadlets.
I thought part of the problem may be glass imperfections were providing an achorage for the droplets, the glass is peppered with miniscule sand chips, due to high speed cruising.
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My glass has a 'recorded' mileage of 70 odd thousand, but there are lots of little screws missing from the back of the speedo... Pretty certain the glass is (fairly) original too.
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Dreadful stuff. There is only one thing worse, trying to get rid of it afterwards, when you realise you have made a mistake. Yes it works in heavy rain, but drizzle NO!
However used on side windows no criticisms.
(.......and yes the windscreen was clean, brand new and cleaned before application).
pmh (was peter)
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I like Autoglym Glass Cleaner, but I don't use it on the screen because I find it worsens visibility on the wiped area in the wet. Great stuff for all other glass.
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