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windscreen washing liquid gets frozen, what to do?
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You do use a much stronger concentrate in Winter, never had mine frozen but it has started to when hitting the screen if I dont put wipers on fast wipe0
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Only when you scrape the car against the gate post after drinking a bottle :eek:Doesn't vodka remove paintwork?
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Buy the ready mix stuff at Halfords, they usually have a deal on and I've never known this to freeze up.sensibly_insane wrote: »thanks for your replies everybody, ya i do mean car wash stuff
but the problem with the neat liquid is that it dries up to white residue even before the wiper is done with cleaning up the windscreen.0 -
An "old" trick, bit more difficult with modern cars where every thing tends to be hidden away.
Buy about a yard of polythene tubing and a couple of "joining" adapters, insert the additional hose into the existing piping between the nozzles and reservoir, coiling the excess pipe around the "top hose" to the radiator.
When the engine heats up this will thaw out the pipes/nozzles which always freeze first and will put warm water onto the screen - which is far less likely to freeze there than icy water from the reservoir.0 -
Where's got the best value concentrated screen wash for a cheap skate like me? I go through loads of water in my washer bottle but need to start using screen wash as I'm sick of it freezing and sick of having a dirty grit-dust covered windscreen!
Cheers,
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Where's got the best value concentrated screen wash for a cheap skate like me? I go through loads of water in my washer bottle but need to start using screen wash as I'm sick of it freezing and sick of having a dirty grit-dust covered windscreen!
Cheers,
Mike
germansweedishfrench
or eurocarparts0 -
Lidl £3.99 / 5l freezing at -60 neat.Where's got the best value concentrated screen wash for a cheap skate like me? I go through loads of water in my washer bottle but need to start using screen wash as I'm sick of it freezing and sick of having a dirty grit-dust covered windscreen!
Cheers,
MikeNever associate with idiots on their own level, because, being an intelligent man, you'll try to deal with them on their level - and on their level they'll beat you every time.
Being hated by idiots is the price you pay for not being one of them.
Jean Cocteau 1889-1963
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Thought that was the diluted stuff for £3.99 but if it doesn’t freeze or leave big streaks it’l do! At 80p/L I’d use that neat even in summer if it still works well?0
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