O.T. oily windshield

A couple weeks ago my windshield got sprayed with motor oil. I washed it with dish detergent, but it still has residue in the pits and pores of the glass. This causes quite a mess first thing in the morning when there is dew. Would carburetor cleaner do the job without causing another problem? Any other suggestions?
Thanks, Roy

Did you really get the Windshield Wiper cleaned..?

Alcohol will get it clean (NOT Jack Daniels)..!

I use a lot of De-Natured Alcohol for cleaning.

We used a lot of cold coffee and News Paper over the years to clean the inside of our truck windows and it worked very well, too..!

Ron.

Back in the day that we didn't have windshield washers I would git a bottle of coke and shake it up and spray on vindshield to get the bugs and stuff off.
One day in Arkansas I drove thru a swarm of june bugs and it was like grease on the windshield.

First cabbed backhoe I ran years ago broke a hose on the loader.After the master wrench got it fixed he got a can of ether out and sprayed the windshield off.Never even had a smear.Good Luck.

dish detergent is made to be gentle on your hands not for breaking down oil. Use pretty much any general purpose cleaner, but not anything corrosive like oven cleaner.

Two things come to mind. First, the wiper blade as you mentioned. When I was stationed in Germany, I was screwing around with a buddy that was about to take off in a jeep. I don't remember where I got it, but I threw a wad of mayonaise across the windshield to screw with him. Naturally he turned on the wipers to try and get it off. A few seconds later the slimey mess on the windshield turned black, blacker, and impossible to see through BLACK. I don't know what's in mayonaise, but it ate the wiper blades on that jeep almost immediately. Second, when I worked downtown Chicago decades ago and had to wear suits and ties, I had an ink pen leak in he pocket of one of my best, most expensive white shirts. Dang! I tried everything to clean it out, nothing worked. As a last ditch effort since the washer was in my garage where there happened to be a gallon of the blue windshield washer fluid, what the heck, nothing else worked, so I poured some on the spot where it got inked...the ink began running, separating from the pocket immediately. So I put it in the machine and poured about half a gallon of the cleaner in with it. When it finsihed washing and I pulled it out, no trace of ink. All gone. I've done it a few times after that, cleans whites pretty good. A WORD OF CAUTION...I tried it to whiten a shirt that I needed to wear to an event that had a colored logo sewn into it, and when it finished washing and I took it out, yep it was whiter, but the sewn logo was bleached out completely as well, white and couldn't make it out. Works great on pure white shirts, but anything that has colors in it...bad news unless you want it all white.

Mark

Try 'Dawn' dish washing stuff. Cuts grease as advertised. 2nd choice 'Zest' bar soap. Clean my glasses with it and it rinses kleen. HTH

I'll second using Dawn - really good stuff. Also great on tubs, showers and as a pre-soak for hydraulic and engine oil on work clothes.

As mentioned already, make sure you get the windshield wiper blades good. Took me two tries to get them clean enough where they didn't leave the residue on the windshield.

Bon-Ami powder will clean it if you can find it. It is not abrasive enough to scratch the windshield. I use it to clean the road film off my windshields.

dawn dish detergent is used by the pallet load by the military to cut oil on landing craft and such. Bill

Waterless hand cleaner like GoJo works. Run your fingers with some on the wiper blades as a finish after smearing it all over the glass just rinse off with water will be clean as a whistle

Make that 3 votes for Dawn.

Dawn, as said by others. Been using it for years, really nice to find a product that works as advertised.

Try Dawn Power Dissolver.

There are two Bon Amis The yellow can is good for glass. The red can is not for glass. The one for glass is hard [for me ] to find and I have a hardware store order it for me. THe graphics on the cans change also so read the label.

Pour some gas on it then clean it with Dawn.

Bushhog Papa is right, de-natured Alc. works real well. And it is a glass cleaner to a point.

Thanks for the replies. Quite a variety and am sure one of them, maybe not the first one, will work.