(if discussed already, my bad...I searched)

I'm getting grumpier and grumpier about having to keep a large tube in the car and having to get out with the roof half-down to insert or remove it, just to protect the plastic rear-window.

This wouldn't prevent it from creasing, but it would prevent it from scratching:

A large, clear vinyl static-sticker (the kind that adheres to glass, removeable, without any adhesive) placed over the plastic rear-window. With proper application, air or water bubbles wouldn't be a problem.

I don't know if the plastic-vinyl interaction would create problems, or if it would "adhere" to the plastic window as well as it does to glass, but its something that could be thrown out and replaced as it got scratched, etc.

Anyone?

 

SilverFog,

I had this idea a while back and tried it with no luck. I just couldn'd get the static stickers to adhere to the surface. I even thought about using some sort of adhesive with peel-away sheets but didn't get too far there either.

-g

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by gontheg
[B]I had this idea a while back and tried it with no luck.

 

SilverFog, the issue with the scratching is on the inside of the window...when the top is down, the plastic window rests on the well and as it moves about, it develops scratches. The tube is to prevent creasing...

If you are, like the rest of us, concerned about the scratching, get yourself a MuZMat and drop that bad boy in the roof well. Then the window will rest upon nice soft carpet instead of the plastic thereby preventing any more scratching...

The tube? I had one until the first time I put my top up and drove off, leaving the tube in the parking lot behind me. Too much trouble!

Get either the two 3M products, Plastic Polish and Plastic Cleaner or a can of Plexus. That should cure your window woes...

 

The best thing to keep the rear window in good shape from creasing andscratching is a terrycloth towel. If the rear window is allowed to fold on itself (as it does on the outside) it will scratch itself. The towel prevents creasing and scratching.

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by lvs2k
[B]The best thing to keep the rear window in good shape from creasing andscratching is a terrycloth towel.

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by gregstevens
[B]The tube?

 

Are you serious when you say that you think the plastic scratches ITSELF...!? I have not seen this on my car...and I just polished/cleaned the rear window on my car yesterday. The only scratching I have ever seen is on the inside...and that's why it's a bitch, because it's so danged hard to clean it behind the roll hoops.

So, my solution is to drive the car only when the weather allows top down driving...

But seriously, I can't imagine the plastic scratching itself...

 

Say there was a bit of grit on the window?

So, to recap, in your experience, you've got the MuzMat in the well, but don't do anything else when you put the top down?

What are you doing, if anything, about creasing?

[Edited by SilverFog on 04-02-2001 at 04:49 PM]

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by SilverFog

Quote:

What are you doing, if anything, about creasing?

I haven't seen any scratches developed on the OUTSIDE of the window from itself. I SUPPOSE that could happen if the window was really dirty, but you don't sound like the kind of guy that would let his window get THAT dirty (nor am I).

So, I use the 3M cleaner and then the polish on the outside and follow it up with Plexus on the inside. As the hoops are in the way, it's a realy pain to use a paste cleaner/polisher on the inside...

As for creases, as I said before, the only thing I ever did was to make a felt covered postal tube and stick it in there...but that's a pain in the you know what and I forgot about the tube the first time I put the top up and it fell out into the parking lot. It's just too much trouble and the 3M and Plexus work beautifully...

Creases? Hmmm, I'd have to look and see...they are not noticeable much at all. And not having to doink around with that damn tube is worth the price of whatever small creases there may be...

And yes to the MuZMat...

Just my 3729 inflation adjusted Dannish Kronners worth...