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I don’t need any just yet, but 1st Halfords has none and the second one has only the rubbish -5 stuff and a queue of about 10 people buying it.
I shall resume my search another day (or get some delivered 🙂)
I get mine off eBay - 25 ltr bottles of concentrate from whoever is listing it cheapest at the time.
I've never used screen wash to clean my arse.... but i bet it gets it squeaky 🙂
Yep, our Asda had none, got some at Spar though.
My local Tesco had loads of the stuff yesterday, not sure what it's like mind...
On display at local filling station:
Usual deadly looking blue stuff = 1 x 5L carton
Watery looking stuff = loads and loads
They're watering it down for profit I tells ye.
I get mine off eBay – 25 ltr bottles of concentrate from whoever is listing it cheapest at the time.
+1
You can usually get some winter Carplan/Polyguard/sometimes Sonax for £30 or so delivered. You do have to read the dilution descriptions on the listings to get decent winter performance. My current one is Carplan - but is not doing well in the (admittedly -10) cold weather.
I ran out on the M25 yesterday evening, and as it was cold thought better off just using water as I do in the summer. Grabbed a 5l bottle from the forecourt of Clacket Lane (no price tag obvious), and was somewhat taken aback to pay £11 :O Expected it to be about half that....
I’ve never used screen wash to clean my arse…. but i bet it gets it squeaky 🙂
...arse freezing to the windscreen can be an issue too!
Doesn't seem to be an issue around here, I walked down the high street to get to and from the dentist this morning and saw 3 or 4 shops with it in or around the front door.
I’ve never used screen wash to clean my arse…. but i bet it gets it squeaky 🙂
Where do you pour it into the bidet.....
Heated washer jets and windscreen ftw
Where do you pour it into the bidet…..
no, into the toilet cistern. with the right sort of squat, you can clean your arse and toilet simultaneously.
I just borrow mine from work.
Heated washer jets and windscreen ftw
I can see the attraction, especially in the cold weather, but what do the neighbours think of you squatting on the bonnet trying to get the angles right?
Heated washer jets and windscreen ftw
What about the washer bottle? Is that insulated?
What about the washer bottle? Is that insulated?
In my Volvo it was in the engine bay, next to warmth.
In both Seat's and our old Touran it is tucked behind bumper/wheelarch in the cold...
🙁
I just borrow mine from work.
Borrow? Do you take it back when you've used it?
What about the washer bottle? Is that insulated?
The bottles not usually the problem, because even cheap screen wash is good to -5/-10 or so which is colder than 99% of the population even overnight this week. Plus it's in the engine bay.
The problem is when it's -1 and the windchill is enough to freeze the jets.
I could get away with "summer" dilution in the C-max with it's heated jets, the fiesta needed neat -25 stuff.
Berlingo might have been a problem was the bottle was under the bumper, but the jets were tucked under the back of the bonnet out of the airflow so didn't seem to struggle like the ones on the fiesta.
Heated screen helps with defrosting and keeping the inside fog free, but the two are wired together.
Grabbed a 5l bottle from the forecourt of Clacket Lane (no price tag obvious), and was somewhat taken aback to pay £11 :O Expected it to be about half that…
Quickest way to knacker up the jets on any mondern'ish car that,
Can't get anything locally other than summer spec stuff, no ice scrapers either. Going to use 99% IMS to add a bit of ooomph to the dilution
I’ve never used screen wash to clean my arse…. but i bet it gets it squeaky 🙂
Better than smearing, I expect.
The minus 5 stuff I put in the van neat hasn't been good enough.
My local DIY/hardware store had sold out the other day. I had to buy a 5L ready-made can a week before at a garage when I ran out mid-drive (elementary error!) and I keep it in the car but the 2L or so that was left in there was a slush when I opened the car this morning (after a lot of effort to actually open the frosted-shut doors).
Thermometer reckoned -9.
I was on the M6 yesterday, lots of standard stuff but no cold weather stuff at any of the stations I stopped at.
Times like this I miss my mondeo's heated washer squirters. Then I remember that time they went on fire, and the other time that they went on fire.
Quickest way to knacker up the jets on any mondern’ish car that
What, running plain water through the jets knackers them? How?
What, running plain water through the jets knackers them? How?
Apparently plain tap water corrodes the metal parts of the washer jets, this I was told by a Ford dealer when I took the out-laws 3yr old Kuga in to have new jet units fitted.
I went into Halfords in Greenock and they had none
Remarkably there was a small flurry of people buying it up here the last couple of weeks or so. Can’t think why.
Apparently plain tap water corrodes the metal parts of the washer jets, this I was told by a Ford dealer when I took the out-laws 3yr old Kuga in to have new jet units fitted.
Someone is making an excuse for shitty car parts.
Anyone DIYed your own low temp screen wash? Isopropyl alcohol can be had for £17 for 5L. on amazon. That should make 50L+ of very low temp screen wash according to my crappy maths. Then lob in some white vinegar or window cleaner or even some liquid soap as the cleaning agent.
Corrosion no, although when it freezes is cracks the plastic bits on the back.
Anyone DIYed your own low temp screen wash? Isopropyl alcohol can be had for £17 for 5L. on amazon. That should make 50L+ of very low temp screen wash according to my crappy maths. Then lob in some white vinegar or window cleaner or even some liquid soap as the cleaning agent.
That would be more expensive than just buying winter screen wash and flammable when it drips onto the exhaust?
That would be more expensive than just buying winter screen wash and flammable when it drips onto the exhaust?
Nope and Nope.
This DIY would be 34p a litre. Then a few pennies for the cleaning agent. So roughly a third of the price of bulk bought low temp screenwash at retail.
And normal screen wash gets its antifreeze properties (and degreaser properties) from the addition of ethanol - another flammable alcohol. Mixed roughly 1:10 with water (so roughly the alcohol content of a crap wine) it's not going to get too explody.
I always buy a big concentrate bottle of Prestone Yellow in the summer for dirt cheap, lasts all year diluted and enough to use neat for times like this. I learned when I worked for Halfords to always keep a supply and buy it out of season! Same for deicer, wiper blades etc.
And normal screen wash gets its antifreeze properties (and degreaser properties) from the addition of ethanol – another flammable alcohol. Mixed roughly 1:10 with water (so roughly the alcohol content of a crap wine) it’s not going to get too explody.
Aren't they ethylene glycol based?
And a 10% water:IPA mix would freeze at -4C, which is fairly useless.
And it would still have a flash point of 41C, although you're unlikely to get those ideal conditions in an engine bay.
I just borrow mine from work.
Borrow? Do you take it back when you’ve used it?
toilet paper?
Not long had the works van serviced. I'm pretty sure they drained the screenwash, one little squirt left. Sure it was full before I took it in. Bloody screenwash tea leaves.
That and they always let all the tyres down to 32 psi. It says 35-49psi on the door frame. Bloody stealing our air too!
after a lot of effort to actually open the frosted-shut doors
Dry the door rubbers and apply silicone lubricant spray (spray onto a cloth and then wipe onto the rubbers)
On a Ford Connect, does anyone know if the heated jets are linked to the heated windscreen or mirrors circuit? Mines got -5 stuff in at the moment, and it's not doing the job.
On a Ford Connect, does anyone know if the heated jets are linked to the heated windscreen or mirrors circuit? Mines got -5 stuff in at the moment, and it’s not doing
Possibly or the washer bottle doesn't get warmed by the engine. I've noticed it freezes easily on the -5 screenwash. in the Connect.
Dull story.
Was driving my old 944 up to Inverness one Winter. Was -10 or something like that. The headlights got really dirty, I operated the headlamp washers, the hose split and it drained my freshly filled screenwash tank instantly.
Probably had some summer mix screenwash in the pipe as I rarely used the headlamp washers.
Made for a horrible low visibility journey
Tesco Gingerbread screenwash leaves a streaky mess on the windscreen
Screwfix are showing stock
I just got 2 x Prestone from Toolstation, they had loads in stock
In the mid-eighties, when we lived in Germany (RAF kid), my Dad used to use diluted (duty free) vodka.
https://www.eurocarparts.com/p/prestone-18c-concentrated-screenwash-5ltrs-552996320
or
That blue stuff is amazing, I just ran out. I can't remember when I bought it, I think 2 years ago, but it's out lasted the tyres I bought at the same time. And that's getting used across 2 cars.
I had my car serviced a couple of weeks back, it was fun discovering they must have topped up the screen wash with no anti-freeze in it the other day as I suddenly had a frosted over windscreen approaching a busy roundabout.
That Prestone extreme linked to at Eurocarparts for £12.99 is £6 in Tesco
Anyone DIYed your own low temp screen wash? Isopropyl alcohol can be had for £17 for 5L. on amazon.
Yes but with industrial methylated spirit
That Prestone extreme linked to at Eurocarparts for £12.99 is £6 in Tesco
I hope to be wrong but the Tesco one is ready mix rather than concentrate.
On the other hand Carparts4less (in other words ECP 4 less) charged me £8 each or so for concentrate last week, delivered at ECP ut it was free delivery anyway if you buy enough. It is my go to.
https://www.carparts4less.co.uk/p/prestone-18c-concentrated-screenwash-5ltrs-552996320
Conversely, covering your windscreen in toilet roll overnight would probably stop it icing up.
That Prestone extreme linked to at Eurocarparts for £12.99 is £6 in Tesco
I'm also assuming Tesco is selling ready mix.
None to be found in these parts. Have we been transported back to the Soviet Union?
I had minus 10 rated stuff in my VW passat last Monday when I was driving up the M74 to Glasgow in minus 10 temps (according to the car). Needless to say the washer jet lines froze, then the wiper motors packed up/froze. Had to stop 3 times on the hard shoulder to clean the car windscreen manually as I could not bloody see 😬😳
Bought 25litres of -20C stuff yesterday - nothing was available for miles around, so now have a lifetimes supply sat ready in the middle of Ayrshire
Temperatures going back up to 12ish tomorrow - am sure that's related to my purchase