TESTED Glass cleaners

To properly clean your car's glass, you need more than a regular shampoo. Each of these three pastes has its strengths, but is there a clear winner?

- Tom Barnard

HOW clean is your car’s glass? It might look good from a distance, but it will need a polish to get it back to its original state. These mildly abrasive pastes go beyond washing with shampoo and are stronger than a normal liquid glass cleaner.

Bilt-Hamber’s new Re-View claims to be able to remove dirt and tired hydrophobic coatings, leaving the glass perfectly clear. We tested it against established polishes from Autoglym and Meguiar's, on a window that had been contaminated with residual glue from decals, Rain-X treatment, tar and hard water marks.

It was hard to pick an outright winner across the board: for its ability to clean the common tar and sticky marks we give a narrow win to the Autoglym, but would recommend the Bilt-Hamber for removing coatings, and the Meguiar's for purging water marks.

Bilt-Hamber Re-View