Weather proofing

[Roy C]

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Related question, can anyone recommend anything for the rear screen to get it nice and transparent, rather than a bit murky as mine currently is?

Thanks,

Steve

There are two products on the market.

Renovo Plastic Window Polish (100ml £16.20 / 30ml £5.59): www.renovointernational.com/
- I have used this with limited success.

Hindsight (£38.00 for 5-application starter kit):
www.hindsightuk.com/
- I have not tried it.

But the only real cure is to get it replaced.

Roy

[Saturn 5]

A polish up with ordinary autoglym car polish does wonders, As daft as it may seem it does work, give it a whirl. Bad marks can be removed with brassobut dont press very hard with either.

[anjago]

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Anjago

It's BECAUSE it's for brickwork ....................

-Manek-

Dunno about you but my roofs not made of bricks!

[trefor]

Thompson Waterseal is also for canvas tents etc. It says so on the tin. We've been using it for years, trust us.

T/.

[optique]

In the past few years I have owned 3 cars fitted with mohair soft tops. all of these tops were orignal equipment except for the jag. Ages of the soft tops were
Stag 21 years
e-type 10 years
BMW 3 11years
None of these leaked at any time, the BMW and stag are quite large areas. Why don't these leak ? the griff I own lets water in unless it is regulary fabsiled.
Bearing in mind that when you take away the area covered by the hard centre section and the rear window there is not much roof left to let in water.
Is it just that TVR are just using cheap cr*p materials again and again.

[manek]

Maybe those roofs were plasticised? Yes, it could be cheapo TVR again or it might be that plasticised canvas wouldn't fold down far enough because it's not flexible enough.

-Manek-

[porkman]

I had bad results with the autoglym stuff - the cleaner did odd things to my rear screen and paint where it ran down.

Have recently brushed on Fabsil with good results.

Before that I used Son of a Gun spray. It's a bit messy but it doesn't do any harm to anything it touches - in fact its good for rubber trim and has UV protection in it.

[markbigears]

so what did it do to the screen and paintwork? anyone else had any paintwork problems with this product? ive emailed autoglym direct to ask them if its harmful to paintwork and the plastic rear screen.... i'll let you know the outcome. mark

Edited by markbigears on Friday 23 November 18:00

Edited by markbigears on Friday 23 November 18:24

[markbigears]

well, looks like nobody is at home at autoglym... still no reply