Screenwash Recommendations?

[MondeoMan1981]

Currently using Comma stuff, works down to -60 which is not much of a useful feature this time of year nor is the fact it wont cut through anything bug wise.....

Any recommendations from the ph massive? Dont know about you lot but I prefer to buy concentrate, pre mix is a complete rip off...

[paddyhasneeds]

I'm a big fan (in winter when your washer bottle is frozen and you can't drive to work "fan" is a suitable word for decent screenwash) of the VW stuff.

Costs around £3/Litre but dilutes right down in summer time.

Rightly or wrongly I've always been wary of "5L of blue stuff for four quid" at Wilkinsons.

[chris1roll]

2.5 litres of concentrate for a quid in Asda, works fine.
In the depths of winter I can use half a washer bottle a day on my commute, more if I end up stuck behind a lorry, so I'm generally loath to spend any more than that!

[Pigeon]

Washing up liquid. Cleans the screen a fk of a lot better than anything else and costs essentially nothing.

[belleair302]

Einszett Screen Wash....nothing else comes close.

[Turkey]

belleair302 said:

Einszett Screen Wash....nothing else comes close.

Do you mean the Kristallklar additive as shown on this page: http://www.einszett.co.uk/Glass-Care.php

One bottle of this has lasted me nearly 2 years, and still going. Works well at the recommended dose, and no smearing problems at all in that time. So it costs about £2.50 per year for about 10,000 miles for me, plus about a tenner for when it gets really cold for antifreeze solutions.

Surely any other way is throwing money away?

I'm not cheap (run Synthetic oil and decent tyres, brake pads etc., well I do own a Diesel I suppose), but can think of better ways to waste money when the Einszett product does so much for so little.

[g3org3y]

Pigeon said:

Washing up liquid. Cleans the screen a fk of a lot better than anything else and costs essentially nothing.

Surely not good for any wax on the bodywork?

[paddyhasneeds]

belleair302 said:

Einszett Screen Wash....nothing else comes close.

Good stuff agreed, I used it myself, but I don't think it has any anti freezing agents in it.

Obviously not an issue at the moment and I may be mistaken, but worth mentioning.

[Stu R]

I just use the crap that smells like apples from halfords. Does the job fine.

[miniman]

g3org3y said:

Pigeon said:

Washing up liquid. Cleans the screen a fk of a lot better than anything else and costs essentially nothing.

Surely not good for any wax on the bodywork?

Or the paintwork

[loose cannon]

yesh washing up liquid is full of salt, not good for trickling into those hidden spot weld seams

[finlo]

miniman said:

g3org3y said:

Pigeon said:

Washing up liquid. Cleans the screen a fk of a lot better than anything else and costs essentially nothing.

Surely not good for any wax on the bodywork?

Or the paintwork

And turns into a bar of soap in the bottom of your washer bottle/pump.

[Flanders.]

I've only got Water in at the Bottle at the moment

[Jim the Sunderer]

Flanders. said:

I've only got Water in at the Bottle at the moment

You'll get legionnaire's lergy!

[Shaw Tarse]

Jim the Sunderer said:

Flanders. said:

I've only got Water in at the Bottle at the moment

You'll get legionnaire's lergy!

RIP Flanders

[Puddenchucker]

paddyhasneeds said:

I'm a big fan (in winter when your washer bottle is frozen and you can't drive to work "fan" is a suitable word for decent screenwash) of the VW stuff.

Same here. But for summer use I'm also a 'fan' of the Clearalex sachets as they seem pretty effective at shifting splattered bugs:

[Platinum]

Stu R said:

I just use the crap that smells like apples from halfords. Does the job fine.

The Halfords meadow scented stuff is nice; but you don't get much in the bottle.

[Flanders.]

Shaw Tarse said:

Jim the Sunderer said:

Flanders. said:

I've only got Water in at the Bottle at the moment

You'll get legionnaire's lergy!

RIP Flanders

I've had a good run. .

[Ozzie Osmond]

50% water
50% methylated spirit
and just a drop of washing up liquid.

No fooling, this really is as good as you'll get.

[Pigeon]

loose cannon said:

yesh washing up liquid is full of salt, not good for trickling into those hidden spot weld seams

Funny how it's possible to use nothing else in a car for twenty years and not have it suffer any damage from it at all then.

More FUD to con people into wasting money on crappy expensive blue stuff that leaves smears and doesn't work anything like as well.