Visor Polish

[Rowey]

My visor has had a bit of a battering from road salt over the winter and constant use. It's now covered in quite a few minor scratches.

During the day it's not a problem but at night in the rain it can be a bit annoying. Seeing as none are particularly bad they should polish out. But what to use?

I've done a quick Google and couldn't find much useful. Worth a try I suppose, if it works I'll get a bit more use out of my (fairly new) visor. Otherwise I'll just have to fork out for another
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[Howling TerrorOutOfOffice]

I wasn't aware you could polish out scratches on visors.
I'd probably save my quids for a replacement, and keep the old one for a backup.

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[stinkwheel]

I've never seen or heard of anything that works for that.

If you find something let us know. I've got several hundreds of pounds worth of scratched to fuck visors.
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[chris-red]

My dad used something on mine that got the worst of it out, It was something from his plastic modeling kit. I'll find out what.
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[yen_powell]

Plastic modellers use toothpaste to polish out scratches from clear stuff.. Would only work on very slight scratches though.
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[Serendipity]

I've seen this sort of stuff before:

https://www.marinescene.co.uk/product/5353/starbrite-plastic-polish-restorer

I think Concours d'Elegance restorers use it to polish up lamp clusters etc.

Not sure how safe it would be on a visor though. I wouldn't like a stone to smash through my very clear, but brittle visor due to some chemical weakening.
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[chris-red]

[Rowey]

Well, it's worth a punt. I'm at work till tomorrow, so I'll take some before and after pictures.

First I will try toothpaste as I can pinch it out of the cupboards, and it's cheap.

If it doesn't work, I'll just be back at square one and need a replacement. If it works, then I'll save some money (and so will you guys) for a few years to come.
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[ms51ves3]

I would think paint polish should work quite well.

[Aka Matt]

Try a plastic polish? Something along the lines of Meguiars Plastic Polish should do the job pretty well but there are cheaper ones out there which would do just as good a job i'm sure.
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[sebastianw]

T cut works well for me

[Rowey]

I did think about using T-Cut (as It's available), but thought it may be too abrasive.

I also found this: https://www.crystal-glo.com/usa/bike/products/7075/

Not an abrasive, but could 'fill' any lasting marks post polishing.
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[iooi]

What ever you use will take the proctective anti scratch coating off the polycarbonate......
Which will then scratch if you so much as touch it.

I spent a long time in optics working plastic lenses and can tell you even the proper polish will not work to any great effect.

Compared to how visors used to be now they are great. Years ago if you got them to last more than a month in winter you were doing well.....

You need to keep your visor clean by washing it in nice soapy water and rinsing under the tap. Then apply some polish (supermarket own brand cheepie) or Mr Sheen seem to be the best. That helps stop the build up on it.
And stop running your gloves over it unless its raining hard.
Mine is now into its 2nd year.
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[LeeR]

I've used Xerapol on visors before, but go easy the stuff can make it worse if you use too much.

£9.99 from Hein Gericke
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[seantobin43]

i use something like JML it really works .
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