I've had poly windshield/visors before.... While they are cheaper, The glass tip out on my defender has NO GLARE or superficial scratches with nearly 2000 miles on 'Bear' in some pretty RUGGED terrain. I'm SURE had my windshield been polycarbonate it would be WASTED by now... especially where the wiper swipes.... Sure rainex works on the poly... but with it in my bugwasher jug, when i hit the washer i get a new dose on my glass shield... WORKS AWESOME...
Okay... so just food for thought... really.... the cost of the glass flip out is the cost of your replacement shield that you get to replace the the scratched up, yellowed out old one you're tired of looking out the door to see...
Thanks bud for posting your experience withs the poly windshield. I'm not sure why our Canadian friends seem to pay double the cost of an item that you would get in the USA. I watched a couple of youtube videos of how to polish out scratches on polycarbonate/lexan windshields with good results as long as the scratches aren't too deep.
Thanks bro for the detailed reply. Is it possible that in some way things are more expensive in Canada because you guys have more government funded social programs than we do? Anyhow, I live in St-Albans, Vermont and the Quebecers rent mailboxes at the UPS Store here in town and have packages shipped there. They must then somehow bring them back across the border "discretely".A friend gave me some stuff to try on my old machine and it worked out amazing. Almost like new except for the large scratches. It obviously wore off and would have needed to be reapplied but I only did it once. He uses it on his Harley that is his pride and joy so I felt pretty safe using it. I think it was called novas. I will have a look in the shop later on I’m pretty sure I had some left. It was a 2-3 part but I only used the 2 parts.
Also I can’t figure out why we pay so much more either. Trying to find anything aftermarket or oem is crazy priced in Canada compared to the USA. Almost three times the price on most things I look at. Plus not a lot of your retailers will ship to Canada. It’s the way it works for everything. They allow retailers or shops to order in parts to mark up the price wile we can’t order directly. Legal mafia lol
i own a campground in Ontario and use hydro meters throughout the park for each site. The counters in those boxes are about 4 bucks directly from Eaton in the usa but I can’t order them directly so I’m forced to pay 18 bucks each in Canada.
thisbis why if you are close to the border a US mail box would be nice. I’m about four hours but been thinking about it more and more these days. Well not really during covid days lol. I think of how my defender would look if I lived in the states.
Yes it is. I was going to post it as well. Because, if you own a rag top... you own Novus 3 plastic polish... 2 &3 are mostly used... 1 is for heavier scratches.... comes in a three pak (red/blue/grey I think it was) and it works pretty well.
