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Daox · 09-25-2009, 12:55 PM

I was just talking with Darin about removing it, opening the sunroof area up a little more, and filling it all with solar cells to get a little more output. That is much more work than I'd like to do haha.

When talking with the shop guy, he called it 'dot matrix'. I did some more googling and apparently you can sand it off! It looks like this might be the way to go. The one thing I am going to try before going that route though is I found one more way. The guy said to use 0000 steel wool, put it on a random orbit sander and go to town. So, I'll be giving that a try first as he said that that way doesn't scratch the glass.

The thermal shock idea isn't bad either, but I guess I'd be worried about cracking the glass?

Also, how bad would it be if I had to polish the glass?

09-25-2009, 12:55 PM	#34 (permalink)
Daox Administrator Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Germantown, WI Posts: 11,203 CM400E - '81 Honda CM400E 90 day: 51.49 mpg (US) Daox's Grey Prius - '04 Toyota Prius Team Toyota 90 day: 49.53 mpg (US) Daox's Insight - '00 Honda Insight 90 day: 64.33 mpg (US) Swarthy - '14 Mitsubishi Mirage DE Mitsubishi 90 day: 56.69 mpg (US) Daox's Volt - '13 Chevrolet Volt Thanks: 2,501 Thanked 2,587 Times in 1,554 Posts	I was just talking with Darin about removing it, opening the sunroof area up a little more, and filling it all with solar cells to get a little more output. That is much more work than I'd like to do haha. When talking with the shop guy, he called it 'dot matrix'. I did some more googling and apparently you can sand it off! It looks like this might be the way to go. The one thing I am going to try before going that route though is I found one more way. The guy said to use 0000 steel wool, put it on a random orbit sander and go to town. So, I'll be giving that a try first as he said that that way doesn't scratch the glass. The thermal shock idea isn't bad either, but I guess I'd be worried about cracking the glass? Also, how bad would it be if I had to polish the glass? __________________ Current project: A better alternator delete Last edited by Daox; 09-25-2009 at 02:10 PM..