Anyone got any advice or experience they'd care to share on whether it's possible to fix a scratched windscreen?

It's been scratched by the wipers so it's an arc shape across the passenger side of the screen. Scratch is about 5mm wide.

Can they be polished out with something like autosol?

Any other tips?

Chris

See ebay item:251169890886

I plan to try this type of product on my Westfield. It has become micro peble dashed from too many blats and track days around Knockhill. Planed to do it over winter. It is particularly bad with low sun angles at this time of year.

that looks ok, but I wouldn't exactly describe this as 'light damage'!

Chris

I used clear nail varnish, to "hide" a scatch, and then scraped off the residue with a stanley blade

7, has been thru several mots, and they have never seen it!

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I used a kit off ebay a couple of years ago on my Alfa 159 Screen. I felt it was a gamble at the time 20 quid vs 300+ for a screen - it was a scratch as you describe caused by something stuck under a wiper blade about 5mm wide and about 250mm long in an arc. I could feel it with a finger nail but my nail wouldn't catch in the scratch if you get my drift.

I used a cordless drill and it took me about 40 mins and made my back ache a bit but to my amazement it worked. If I looked really hard afterwards I could see a slight optical distortion but other than that it was good. worth a try I think

If you have windscreen cover on you insurance, I'd claim on that.

I removed around 100 scratches on a rear side window once, using the scratch doctor glass kit, took around 3 hours and you could still tell it wasn't perfect.

[Edited on 30/10/12 by BangedupTiger]

Classes as a claim even if it doesnt affect NCD, not worth it IMO.

My 206 has got some scratches on the windscreen from the wipers, still gets through the mot. Can't even tell they're there unless you're looking right at them.

Is there anything saying you can't just use optical plexiglass for screens? If so, then you'd be able to cut it at home, so you could replace it cheaper and more regularly for when it goes cloudy or gets scratched?