Car Mechanics (UK)

Pitted windscreen

- Craig Mcwiggan

I have a 2007 Skoda Octavia VRS diesel that has covered 120,000 miles. I have realised that the windscreen has hundreds of tiny marks, similar to pinpricks. Having read your response to someone asking about scratched glass, I wondered if a windscreen-polishing kit would get rid of these?

I would first ensure that the marks you can see are in or on the glass. Given so many tiny marks, it would be unusual if the cause was a large number of tiny stonechips. By running your fingers over the glass, you should be able to determine if the marks are inside the screen or on the surface.

I am assuming your vehicle hasn’t been parked near anywhere that grinding has been carried out, as I have seen the tiny flexes thrown off from a grinder adhere to surfaces and give a similar effect. If the problem is due to either tiny indents or flexes adhered to the screen, then a windscreen-polishing kit such as the one offered by glasspolis­hshop.com (http://bit.ly/2zbg2oq) might help.

There is another possible explanatio­n for the tiny marks, which is that the lamination in the centre of the screen is beginning to deteriorat­e, which results in tiny white marks appearing within the glass. If this is the case, it can only be rectified by replacing the windscreen.

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