Faceshield Cleaner Spray

[twowheelnut]

Thanks for all the comments guys...this helps to hear what others do!
@jbay: good luck with that splinter! :haha:

Oh... I thought he said, "sphincter"...

 

[OrangevaleFJR]

Paper is made of wood. Wood scratches plastic. Don't use paper to clean windshields of face shields.
The single best thing I've found to clean wind/face shields over the years is from Meguiar's. It's a clear plastic cleaner and polish. I first soak the shield with a wet (cloth) towel to soften dirt and bugs. I then use a thick pile terry towel to so an initial clean to get the dirt and bugs off (they scratch too). Swap towels frequently when at home (on the road have a larger towel and swap "areas") so you don't grind the grit into the plastic of the wind/face shields. I then use a clean terry towel and Meguiar's Clear Plastic Cleaner/Polish. You can get it as a 2 step process (cleaner #17 & polish #10) or as a single step combination (Detailer #18) which works in the final steps after the water/soft cloth cleaning.

I personally use the detailer #18 all the time and bypass the other 2 by taking my time and cleaning the shield with water and a soft cloth.

No residue like products from Plexus and other companies leave behind. Very best I've ever seen in years of shield cleaning.

I find mine locally at a place called the "Old English Auto Paint" store.

I've seen Rain-X turn a windshield milky white in seconds after it was applied.

+1 - Better than the Cee Bailey screen polish. Macguires #18 rocks.

(as does their tech wax for the painted areas)

 

[OrangevaleFJR]

I've got a Schuberth Concept flip helmet. according to the Bemmer dealer that sold me the helmet, Schuberth recommends using Plexus on their shield. Yeah, OK.I've been using Plexus for some time before buying the Schuberth.

Like I said, it sure works nice as a quick detailer too.

Me too...and I screwed up my first Schuberth visor with a stronger detergent. Taught me to read and pay attention...$50 lesson...woulda done a lot better with water. I cleaned the screen and started riding...about 25 seconds into the ride the entire fog proof covering flaked up and I thought I was going blind!

 

[Bounce]

Lemon Pledge furniture polish is an old standby that thousands of us have been using for years on all sorts of plexi - it's even used by pilots on fragile/expensive aircraft windshields. Cheap and readily available in small cans. And the wax it leaves behind helps for the next cleaning.

Just an observation. Not all windshields and faceshields are made of the same stuff. Some react differently than others to different cleaners.

That's the basis for my comment about using furniture polish on furniture and find a clear plastic cleaner for clear plastics. Finding out that the shortcut doesn't play well with your particular face of wind shield can be a costly lesson.

After losing the windshield to the same pledge that everyone else was swearing by on various lists, I went looking for something designed for clear plastics and have been very pleased with Meguiar's ever since; no matter what material the face or windshield was made of. Others report still being happy with a product designed to treat wood, but I went with caution instead. The end result it a much clearer face shield without that waxy build up that those housefraus complain about in the commercials.

 

[black mamba]

I've got a new Schuberth Concept 2 flip-up. The paper work that came with the helmet advises against anything but lightly-soaped warm water to clean the shields....the Schuberth has an inner, movable shaded shield as well as the primary shield. The manual cautions you to specifically avoid any sort of cleansing agent. It also mentions that you should never use anything but a soft cloth or micro-fabric during the cleaning process. I think their fairly restrictive guidelines are the result of the proprietary coatings that they use.

 

[Old Dog]

Thanks for all the comments guys...this helps to hear what others do!
@jbay: good luck with that splinter! :haha:

Oh... I thought he said, "sphincter"...

For some reason Barney Fife and the word "Shincter" seem to go together. All due respects to Deputy Fife though.

 

[kerhrhr]

Very recently, I've had numerous problems with my Arai helmet. Its an RX-7 Corsair. If you are familiar with those helmets, they have side pods on them that help "lock" the lense in place. They're not as user friendly as the SHOEI helmets I've seen, but that's what they have. Anyway, my left side pod broke when I was doing a lense swapout from the dark shaded, to the clear for a night ride. The rep. at Arai asked me what I used to clean my helmet with, and I told him I use Windex on the lense, and McGuires Quik Detailing Spray for the helmet paint job. He told me that they are having problems with the helmets that people use the Plexus on, because there are some sort of chemicals in there that break down the plastic in a much faster time frame than some other products he named. One of the others he mentioned was the Honda plastic cleaner. The others I didn't recognize. Just my 2 cents........

Aaron :dntknw:

 

[Wilson]

I have a Chase Harper barrel bag mounted on the handlebars. I keep a small cloth wet with Honda Spray cleaner in the barrel bag. When a big ole bug hits I just zip wipe and zip the cloth back into the bag, non stop. I also use the bag for storage of the cigarette lighter hook-up from the battery tender lead. I use the bag to mount my Garmin GPS60CS map by clipping the belt clip in the the bag opening.

 

[JimLor]

Okay, I'll throw myself on the table like the flopping Tuna - I use windex and have been for the last 4 months. Use it on my helmet and all lights on the bike - it works great! So go ahead, somebody tell me that one day at 100+mph my faceshield will melt off my helmet and my windshield will fall off while my headlight covers implode! I use a microfiber cloth and don't have any scratches or clouding on any plastic surface. Does anyone know of any long term effects (negative) of windex?

Thanks.

 

[Bounce]

Some version of it use amonia. Pretty aggressive stuff. Try the kind that's vinegar based since it'd usually okayed by window tint companies.

 

[JimLor]

Good info Bounce, I'll check and see which one I've been using.