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Subject:Re: Rain and rain-x and driving in the inclemency
From:miguel pacheco
Date:Thu, 4 Feb 2010 18:18:21 -0700

Save your money. Wax your windshield with ordinary car wax. Same
result, less money...........
Miguel

'In heaven all the interesting people are missing.'
  - Friedrich Nietzsche

On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 5:41 PM, Scott Daniel - Turbovans
<scottdaniel@turbovans.com> wrote:
> I  did see another rain-X like product.
> I was at my automotive paint supplier store ...like professional grade
> stuff...
> and they had a tube ...
> about the size of a magic marker ....tube type applicator.
>
> they SWORE it was the best rain-x like product there ever was., like much
> better than rain-x.
> I'm gonna get me some,
> and I'll ask about that rock chip thing with it too.
>
> Scott
> www.turbovans.com
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Loren Busch" <starwagen@GMAIL.COM>
> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
> Sent: Thursday, February 04, 2010 2:50 PM
> Subject: Re: Rain and rain-x and driving in the inclemency
>
>
>> RE: Rain X
>> There apparently is one drawback to Rain X according to the shop that did
>> my
>> windshield replacement.  If you have used Rain X they can't do the rock
>> chip
>> repair thing.  Rain X is a silicon based product and once it's on the
>> glass
>> (and seeps into the cracks in the rock chips) the polymer that is used to
>> fill in the rock chip/bullseye type damage won't adhere to the glass.  I
>> was
>> also told there was another product on the market that did the same thing
>> as
>> Rain X but didn't have that problem.  I don't remember the name and I've
>> never looked for the other product.  And that's the only time I've heard
>> that caution.
>