Motorway Flies!
Discussion
I'm having to make a 2hr each way motorway journey a couple of times a week at the moment.
With the warm weather, the car is getting cover in splatted flies all over the windscreen, bonnet, grill and wing mirrors. They get really baked on liked dried Weetabix and are a right pain to remove.
I spent about 40 mins today trying to clean then off with limited success.
I then had another 2 hour trip home and it's covered again.
Anyone have any tips for a) avoiding them sticking to the screen/bodywork or b) how to remove the hundreds of sticky little dead fly deposits more efficiently?
With the warm weather, the car is getting cover in splatted flies all over the windscreen, bonnet, grill and wing mirrors. They get really baked on liked dried Weetabix and are a right pain to remove.
I spent about 40 mins today trying to clean then off with limited success.
I then had another 2 hour trip home and it's covered again.
Anyone have any tips for a) avoiding them sticking to the screen/bodywork or b) how to remove the hundreds of sticky little dead fly deposits more efficiently?
Soft 99 Glaco Ultra. It's like Rainex on steroids.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/SOFT99-Ultra-Glaco-Glass-...
It is reasonably easy to apply compared to most of these products and is long lasting. I get at least 6 months of it being effective. It makes fly splat removal much easier.
They have several coating products, but the Ultra lasts longer than anything else I've tried. The cleaning preparation product is amazing too, makes prep easy, and it's pointless trying to apply any of these coatings on an unprepped screen.
The cleaner is like a fine clay, so don't just rinse it off, it'll make a mess. Wipe most of it off with damp kitchen towel, rinse off the little bit that remains.
I clean them off as soon as I stop, a spray of window cleaner and a couple of bits of kitchen roll to remove most of them, followed by a microfibre I keep in a ziploc bag which is soaked in clean (de-ionised/ Spotless water) and wrung out, then a dry microfibre to buff off.
Sounds a faff but it's taken me longer to type that than to do it. 90 seconds and you'll have a clean screen.
For the rest of the car then some sort of ceramic coating will make removal easier. The Turtle Wax hybrid ceramics are good, long lasting and widely available.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/SOFT99-Ultra-Glaco-Glass-...
It is reasonably easy to apply compared to most of these products and is long lasting. I get at least 6 months of it being effective. It makes fly splat removal much easier.
They have several coating products, but the Ultra lasts longer than anything else I've tried. The cleaning preparation product is amazing too, makes prep easy, and it's pointless trying to apply any of these coatings on an unprepped screen.
The cleaner is like a fine clay, so don't just rinse it off, it'll make a mess. Wipe most of it off with damp kitchen towel, rinse off the little bit that remains.
I clean them off as soon as I stop, a spray of window cleaner and a couple of bits of kitchen roll to remove most of them, followed by a microfibre I keep in a ziploc bag which is soaked in clean (de-ionised/ Spotless water) and wrung out, then a dry microfibre to buff off.
Sounds a faff but it's taken me longer to type that than to do it. 90 seconds and you'll have a clean screen.
For the rest of the car then some sort of ceramic coating will make removal easier. The Turtle Wax hybrid ceramics are good, long lasting and widely available.
M11rph said:
Soft 99 Glaco Ultra. It's like Rainex on steroids.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/SOFT99-Ultra-Glaco-Glass-...
It is reasonably easy to apply compared to most of these products and is long lasting. I get at least 6 months of it being effective. It makes fly splat removal much easier.
They have several coating products, but the Ultra lasts longer than anything else I've tried. The cleaning preparation product is amazing too, makes prep easy, and it's pointless trying to apply any of these coatings on an unprepped screen.
The cleaner is like a fine clay, so don't just rinse it off, it'll make a mess. Wipe most of it off with damp kitchen towel, rinse off the little bit that remains.
I clean them off as soon as I stop, a spray of window cleaner and a couple of bits of kitchen roll to remove most of them, followed by a microfibre I keep in a ziploc bag which is soaked in clean (de-ionised/ Spotless water) and wrung out, then a dry microfibre to buff off.
Sounds a faff but it's taken me longer to type that than to do it. 90 seconds and you'll have a clean screen.
For the rest of the car then some sort of ceramic coating will make removal easier. The Turtle Wax hybrid ceramics are good, long lasting and widely available.
Thanks M11rph, sounds like exactly the sort of thing I'm after. I'll take a look https://www.amazon.co.uk/SOFT99-Ultra-Glaco-Glass-...
It is reasonably easy to apply compared to most of these products and is long lasting. I get at least 6 months of it being effective. It makes fly splat removal much easier.
They have several coating products, but the Ultra lasts longer than anything else I've tried. The cleaning preparation product is amazing too, makes prep easy, and it's pointless trying to apply any of these coatings on an unprepped screen.
The cleaner is like a fine clay, so don't just rinse it off, it'll make a mess. Wipe most of it off with damp kitchen towel, rinse off the little bit that remains.
I clean them off as soon as I stop, a spray of window cleaner and a couple of bits of kitchen roll to remove most of them, followed by a microfibre I keep in a ziploc bag which is soaked in clean (de-ionised/ Spotless water) and wrung out, then a dry microfibre to buff off.
Sounds a faff but it's taken me longer to type that than to do it. 90 seconds and you'll have a clean screen.
For the rest of the car then some sort of ceramic coating will make removal easier. The Turtle Wax hybrid ceramics are good, long lasting and widely available.
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