EasyE26062

I have a '17 F150 and the windshield is extremely pitted. I only have one actual chip that needed to be fixed but the rest of the window is completely covered in light chips. I say light but there is literally about 20-30 pitts per a quarter diameter section across the entire windshield. I can post a pic to demonstrate but for now, I just wanted to see if anyone else has had this severe of a problem on a truck that is less than a year old. Could it be a bad windshield?

icantdrive55

Before you pony up the money to have your windshield replaced, try using #0000 steel wool to polish the glass. Clean the window first, rub the glass with steel wool in circular motions to polish WITHOUT using water or any liquid, then hose off the windshield. Finish with something like Rain-X or other glass treatment. Unless you've done a lot of driving at speed on gravel roads behind other vehicles--in which case your hood would look like sh-t as well--I'm betting it's a matter of grit and other deposits on the window as opposed to actual pits. Worth a shot...

moparado

Are you sure they're pits and not hard water spots or something similar?
Unless you park your truck inside a sand blasting factory or like to follow gravel trucks its hard to believe the windshield got pitted that bad.

I'd try clay barring the windshield before pushing the panic button.

McLovin

seventyeight

I've used clay bar with good results in the past.

moparado

Same here!
Clay barring cleaned stubborn water spots, dried bug guts and other stuck on debris where window cleaners didn't work and tried them all.
I personally would try the clay bar first before steel wool.

As a bonus if a Quick Wax is used with the clay bar instead of soapy water, it will add a thin layer of wax to the windshield minimizing debris bonding to the glass and also will bead rain similar to RainX. End result is a super clean'd windshield after buffing the wax haze off.