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April 04, 2005
Ginny,
40 year motorcycle man here.... over 200K miles on bikes. Depending
upon the bike, your windshield can be either Lexan of Plexi. If it is
the cheaper Plexi it will become cloudy (a white-ish haze) and
eventually it will begin to show stress fractures. Lexan doesn't do
that. Sounds like you have Plexi in which case, there is nothing you
can do about the cloudiness because it is inside the Plexi and won't
polish out. Strong sunshine is the culprit.
Novus and the other plasitic polishes work fine to a point. You will
need to know if there is
a protective coating on the windsheild before using anything with even
a mild abrasive in it. Many of the Lexan windsheilds are coated with
an very thin layer of some clear substance (I don't know what it is!).
Once that substance has gone away (a pressure washer took part of it
off on my big BMW last year in Alaska), the surface of the Lexan is
easily scratched and abraded by anything including the plastic
polishes and even very soft cleaning rags.
My advice: Try the plastic polishes first as Cap'n Bob suggests. You
have nothing much
to lose because if they don't do the trick, you are going to have to
replace the windsheild anyway. Even if it is an integral unit on a
factory fairing, you can usually get a local glass company to cut and
bend a new one for you though it may be cheaper to just order one.
Look at Aeroflow products...
Cheers!!
Jim - who didn't find time today to wrench on the Midget before work
in Dodge City
Jim Johnson < bmwwxman@... > 36619
Posted on April 4, 2005 05:24 PM
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