do you put tag water in your wind screen washer fluid reservoir ?

Crabman

Ich wrote: »

I use it all the time, removes the grease and streaks far better than anything!

It also strips the wax from your paintwork which isn't ideal at the moment, given the amount of salt on the roads.

Tiddlywinks

Crabman wrote: »

It also strips the wax from your paintwork which isn't ideal at the moment, given the amount of salt on the roads.

I think some washing up liquids actually do contain salt... at least they did several decades ago.

fishpond

Crabman wrote: »

It also strips the wax from your paintwork which isn't ideal at the moment, given the amount of salt on the roads.

Leaves your hands lovely and soft though.

phill99

Valli wrote: »

Legionella is carried in fine water droplets - exactly as can be emitted from a windscreen spray. AFAIK it causes problems when breathed in - not by ingestion.

This is exactly it. The media preys on peoples paranoia. Sure there is a theoretical chance. Just the same as there is a theoretical chance of me being struck by lightening during a meteor shower while dressed as a nun.

How many people have got diseases from windscreen washer bottles.

The whole of this is based on a press release put out by someone like Halfords or screen wash manufacturers to get us all rushing to stock up.

What have you done about the bacteria on your steering wheel? Or the gear stick? Or the kids sweet wrappers that they stuff under the car seat? Absolutely nothing.

So why all this sudden ridiculous and pointless paranoia about "We are all going to die because I don't have screen wash in the car"?

People just wake up and get real.

redux

phill99 wrote: »

The whole of this is based on a press release put out by someone like Halfords or screen wash manufacturers to get us all rushing to stock up.

Not quite. According to the article

... the Health Protection Agency says.

Stagnant, warm water is a breeding ground for the Legionella bacterium, which when inhaled causes pneumonia.

Yet adding screenwash kills the bacteria and could save lives, the Agency advised.

The finding came after researchers spotted that professional drivers are five times more likely to be infected.

Now, you can dismiss it as a needless scare, but if the last statement is true then perhaps they have thought about it and there may be something in these remarks.

But whether it is true or not, I shall use screenwash additive with tap water anyway as it keeps the screen clean more easily

phill99

redux wrote: »

Not quite. According to the article

... the Health Protection Agency says.

Stagnant, warm water is a breeding ground for the Legionella bacterium, which when inhaled causes pneumonia.

Yet adding screenwash kills the bacteria and could save lives, the Agency advised.

The finding came after researchers spotted that professional drivers are five times more likely to be infected.

Now, you can dismiss it as a needless scare, but if the last statement is true then perhaps they have thought about it and there may be something in these remarks.

But whether it is true or not, I shall use screenwash additive with tap water anyway as it keeps the screen clean more easily

I use screen wash. Not because it stops me dying from diseases, but because it stops the water freezing. In the summer I use fairy liquid. But I haven't died in the summer yet.

jm2926

Professional drivers are 5 times more likely to get legionnaires disease according to :

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10293519

headpin

You'd need to breath in the contaminated fine water droplets. With you in the vehicle and the washer spray outside, the risk decreases even more than the risk of the washer fluid containing the bacteria in the first place.

roswell

Just add half a cap of dettol :-) ,
Washing up liquid does contain a sodium but not salt as you all know it.

redux

phill99 wrote: »

I use screen wash. Not because it stops me dying from diseases, but because it stops the water freezing. In the summer I use fairy liquid. But I haven't died in the summer yet.

Fine, but I was mainly countering your suggestion this was a wheeze dreamt up by the marketing department of Halfords or similar