Product Name: Duragloss 751 Rain Repel Glass Cleaner Price: $8.95 at the local Car Quest Size: 22oz Amount used during application: two sprays per half of a windshield; one-two sprays for the typical side window Dilution ratios: N/A Label appearance: Yellow label on a white spray bottle, with typical Duragloss graphics on it. Front label mentions "Also formulated for detailing painted surfaces. Removes dust and road film without scratching." Directions or Application process: Straight from the back label: 1. Spray onto surface. 2. Wipe dry with cloth or towel 3. For heavily soiled surfaces repeat above. NOTE: RECOMMENDED FOR EXTERIOR SURFACES ONLY Ease of use: Well, it's a glass cleaner, so pretty easy. Make sure and read the "Cons" section below though, because it's not quite so simple as that. Smell / Scent: It's a pleasant smell, but I'm having a hard time placing it. Bubble gum maybe? Consistency: About what you would expect of glass cleaner in a spray bottle Cleaning Ability: 3 out of 5. For lightly dirty windows, it's just fine. This isn't the product to use if you're trying to fix really bad and/or waterspotted windows. Lubricity: N/A while it's going on, but once you have it down on the window, it's very, very slick. Suds: N/A PH: Don't know Appearance PICS would be great! Well, I didn't take any pictures, because you all know what clean glass looks like. Durability: Three weeks and counting on the windows of my F250. Pros: If you're after a glass cleaner that gives you the "Rain-X Effect," without the hassle of using regular Rain-X (which I think we all kind of hate), this stuff is excellent. Cleaning ability is rather good; it's not going to remove heavy water spotting, but neither do Invisible Glass or Sprayway. That's not what this stuff is for. I haven't used it as a detail spray, but the label claims that you can. So that's a possible upside to this stuff. Another interesting use of 751 that Sal pointed out to me is using it in the windshield washer bottle reservoir, under your hood. "Use 1:1 in auto windshield washers to maintain repellency" is what the label says to do. I haven't tried this yet, because the reservoir in the 250 is freaking huge, and it's not empty yet. Really, the biggest "pro" is the way this stuff repels water once it's down on your windshield. At speeds any faster than 30mph or so in my F250, water starts to move off the windshield. Similar for the side windows. The durability of the rain repellent appears to be excellent, with mine sitting at three weeks and counting, applied to the F250, which lives outdoors. Creates no problems for windshield wipers - no chatter or streaking or anything. Cons: I'm not sure if this is really a fair thing to call a "con," but you do have to use a different product for the inside of windows, so you're stuck using two separate glass cleaners. The other "con" is more noteworthy. I find that in hot weather, this stuff can haze a bit, particularly if I use it with a window-specific towel (the ones with no pile on them, they're usually blue). There's a solution though. I have the best results using a yellow Costco microfiber towel (or other "normal" towel), rather than one of the window-specific towels I usually use. Overall Comments: I like 751 a lot. It darn sure works as advertised! Better rain repellent qualities than MS Enviro-Shield, which JL and I both talk about often. I'll no longer be using Enviro-Shield on glass, now that I've found this stuff. Rating 1-5 (5 being the best): 4/5. As much as I'd like to give this stuff a 5, I can't. The hazing issue can be a bit of a hassle, so that's what keeps this product from getting perfect marks. Don't let that dissuade you though - if you use a "normal" microfiber towel with it (as I described above), rather than a glass towel, the hazing issue goes away.
$9 for 22oz's....not bad, I'll have to stop by Carquest and try it out. opcorn: :shead:When you speak of this haze, are you talking about the initial removal ? :sheadr maybe days later its Hazing?
Initial removal with a glass towel. A quick (and I mean quick - it's not much work) buff gets rid of it all. No haze forms over time either.
Well what I do is clean exterior windows, dry then apply heavy coats of xxxxx..... go on about your biz of washing/claying. then after final rinse with product xxxxx still on the windows, wipe windows dry with a big ole COTTON towel(no fabric softner) This my freind will end your hazing problems and it still last a month(unless you use alot of windshield wiper fluid)
Update! I think it was Sal that brought it to my attention that you can put this stuff in your windshield washer bottle. The label instructs a 1:1 ratio, so I emptied the washer bottle on the F250, and mixed up some 751 with an equal amount of distilled water. The weather has been kind of crummy around here lately, so it's been a good time to test this. All I can say is wow! It works every bit as well as my usual washer bottle mix of plain old blue washer fluid plus P21S washer booster. And, it maintains the water repellency of the windshield, rather than washing it off like standard washer fluid seems to. What a great idea! One question I've got pertains to the winter months - specifically, is this stuff safe to use in sub-freezing temperatures, or will it freeze solid like straight water would? So, I've put a sample of it (at 50/50) in the freezer to see. It's set to about 30 deg. F. in there, so if it freezes, we can safely assume that this trick shouldn't be used during the winter in colder climates.
Nice. This could be a solution to the cost of Aquapel, even though I loves Aquapel very much so. Thanks for the review Karl!
The verdict is in: it's frozen solid. So...if you're going to use DG751 as a windshield washer fluid, don't use it in sub-freezing temperatures. Switch back to your regular fluid with antifreeze properties in it.
hmm. ok. thanks. i use the p21s stuff and appy aquapel which lasts a few months. I guess i'll stick with that.
