Windshield Bubbles???
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Windshield Bubbles???
I have a 2003 (18,000 miles) e55. My (front) windshield has clear, small bubbles on or in it, it almost looks like a bad window tint job (my front window is NOT tinted). The bubbles are no larger then a few mm in diameter (maybe 2mm). I have tryed many thing to get rid of this, different types of window cleaners, i have even tryed to use a blade to see if i can scrape it off. Nothing has worked. Originally i had figured it was dryed water spots. The only other thing i could imagine it being is the laminated safety glass ("def-a type of treated glass, which consists of two (typically) curved sheets of glass with a plastic layer laminated between them for safety") bubbing up maybe from the sun over time?
Please let me know if you have ever heard of this happening.
thanks alot!!!
Please let me know if you have ever heard of this happening.
thanks alot!!!
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I have a 2003 (18,000 miles) e55. My (front) windshield has clear, small bubbles on or in it, it almost looks like a bad window tint job (my front window is NOT tinted). The bubbles are no larger then a few mm in diameter (maybe 2mm). I have tryed many thing to get rid of this, different types of window cleaners, i have even tryed to use a blade to see if i can scrape it off. Nothing has worked. Originally i had figured it was dryed water spots. The only other thing i could imagine it being is the laminated safety glass ("def-a type of treated glass, which consists of two (typically) curved sheets of glass with a plastic layer laminated between them for safety") bubbing up maybe from the sun over time?
Please let me know if you have ever heard of this happening.
thanks alot!!!
Please let me know if you have ever heard of this happening.
thanks alot!!!
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I have a 2003 (18,000 miles) e55. My (front) windshield has clear, small bubbles on or in it, it almost looks like a bad window tint job (my front window is NOT tinted). The bubbles are no larger then a few mm in diameter (maybe 2mm). I have tryed many thing to get rid of this, different types of window cleaners, i have even tryed to use a blade to see if i can scrape it off. Nothing has worked. Originally i had figured it was dryed water spots. The only other thing i could imagine it being is the laminated safety glass ("def-a type of treated glass, which consists of two (typically) curved sheets of glass with a plastic layer laminated between them for safety") bubbing up maybe from the sun over time?
Please let me know if you have ever heard of this happening.
thanks alot!!!
Please let me know if you have ever heard of this happening.
thanks alot!!!
I went through many windows on a W220 in the pat.
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I know this happens on the side glass for the W220 and W215 cars very often but I have never heard of it on the windshield. I think you are right in that the layers are bubbling. The factory should replace it if you were under warranty but I think its going to be customer pay given your cars age?
I went through many windows on a W220 in the pat.
I went through many windows on a W220 in the pat.
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Do they look more like tiny pits rather than bubbles? If so, every windshield that I have ever treated with RainX gets those after a few applications. Might be the culprit, unless they are actually bubbled out, in which case I have no idea.
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I am going to stop using RainX pronto.
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I think they are in between the glass i have even taken a blade to them and nothing.
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