RadTech's iPod Ice Creme

DON'T WASTE YOUR MONEY! Not to knock iPod Ice Cream, but I've been using "Nu Finnish" car polish on my iPod for 2-years with great results. It's not a wax, but an abrasive polish (which is what all polishes are) that erases nicks and small scratches. It's only $10 for a large bottle too!

Ice Creme is really very effective. The only drawback is that it takes a considerable amount of effort and time to really get a proper sheen on the plastic surfaces (on my old 1G anyway), but the results are definitely worth it.

Just use auto buffing and polishing compounds for clear coat. Also the anti swirl compound works great. Use good quality cloth and dampen with water. Use circular motions - random patterns. Keep it clean. Get the stuff for pro's at an automotive paint store - not over the counter. They work great. I bought an ipod that you could hardly read the display. When finished it was perfect. Sometimes I need to use 2000 , then 4000 grit sandpaper and water to start with. This works on scratched plastic glasses also. May get small aberations if not used carefully.

I know jewellry's different, but I've been told to NEVER use toothpaste to clean my gold rings, as it's too abrasive. My understanding (from reading TUAW) is that brasso is also quite abrasive, and can do damage with long term use. Some of the more expensive products are less abrasive than brasso.

John Spain, I'm not sure I understand the implication of your comment. Are you suggesting that I'm a scientist and run scientific analysis on Ice Creme, Brasso, and toothpaste?

Allright by the above our choices remain: 1. Ice Creme / any other commercially available iPod scratch remover 2. brasso 3. car polish. The screen of my ipod is trashed due to having it in my pocket w/ some dirt and sand and having my girlfriend sit on my lap for about half an hour. My dad taught me years ago that the way to get scratches out of watch faces was to use a little dab of toothpaste. This had worked wonders for every watch i've own. It made my ipod screen worse. So which of the 3 above do I try next? 20$ wunndercream? 5$ can of really harsh solvents? Or the car polish, which I've never even heard suggested before? I think, Mr. Barrett, that as an owner of several ipods, you need to step up to the plate and bring some science along with you.

Yeah, I agree with the Nays. I used this a couple years back and it didnt really work too well. just smudged the scratches into a foggy mess. I dont have good luck with these precise ipod cleaning/protection add ons tho

I'm with poster #8. I've been using this off and on with my 3g iPod and it never seems to do all that great a job. Considering what you pay for the stuff, it doesn't seem worth it. Maybe the cheaper solutions like Brasso would be better, but I wouldn't recommend the official Ice Cream product. YMMV.

Used it on my Nano, which was badly scratched all down the front, including the display. Spent about 20 minutes rubbing the cleaning compound into the surface, and it got all the scratches out. The Nano now looks great. Also used it to remove some scratches on the display of my iPod Photo, and that worked great too. It was recommended to me by the Apple Store in here in SF, and I recommend it in turn. Even if it is overpriced.

I don't agree with these other comments at all!! I had one scratch on my brand new 5G Black pod. I followed the directions, even reading them several times before I began. All this ended up doing was putting more scratches on the iPod and it never got out the original scratch. I used Brasso on an earlier iPod and that worked better but it didn't get it to a completely brand new appearance.