using anti-freeze as screen wash
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Apologies for being slow here, but what's the problem with stopping off to buy some screenwash on the way to wherever you are going? Every petrol station sells the stuff, as does every supermarket and even Halfords may stock some (although expecting them to provide something useful is a bit optimistic.)
Oli.
Oli.
zcacogp said:
Apologies for being slow here, but what's the problem with stopping off to buy some screenwash on the way to wherever you are going? Every petrol station sells the stuff, as does every supermarket and even Halfords may stock some (although expecting them to provide something useful is a bit optimistic.)
Oli.
The problem is his Mrs has already topped up the screen wash with the wrong stuff just because it was the screenwash colour. He's now wondering what the damage is. He's not suggesting it as a good idea.Oli.
zcacogp said:
Apologies for being slow here, but what's the problem with stopping off to buy some screenwash on the way to wherever you are going? Every petrol station sells the stuff, as does every supermarket and even Halfords may stock some (although expecting them to provide something useful is a bit optimistic.)
Oli.
yes normally I would agree but it was my o/h! (and we live in the north of scotland which means even our tesco has run out of screen wash) Oli.
She has the car at the minute as she is at uni but when I said that she should check the paintwork - she then suggested getting an old brush to clear the snow off
my poor TT.Also standard screenswash even non-diluted will only work down to -5. that ain't good enough when:
PKLD said:
Also standard screenswash even non-diluted will only work down to -5.
Anti-freeze will strip your paint. No question.Also - I've had no problems with screenwash and I've seen -10 quite a few times in the last few weeks and even a -15. I might have heated jets though - but I don't think so.
Seriously - *don't* use antifreeze. If your OH has put some in the washer bottle then got a (unfrozen) hosepipe into the filler neck and "flood out" the mixture. If things are so bad that it is freezing then get a squirty trigger bottle and use that - stop every now and then to get out and squirt some on.
Dog Star said:
PKLD said:
Also standard screenswash even non-diluted will only work down to -5.
Anti-freeze will strip your paint. No question.Also - I've had no problems with screenwash and I've seen -10 quite a few times in the last few weeks and even a -15. I might have heated jets though - but I don't think so.
Seriously - *don't* use antifreeze. If your OH has put some in the washer bottle then got a (unfrozen) hosepipe into the filler neck and "flood out" the mixture. If things are so bad that it is freezing then get a squirty trigger bottle and use that - stop every now and then to get out and squirt some on.
*she who must be obeyed sometimes
Dog Star said:
PKLD said:
I'm not suggesting in any way that this was a good idea by SWMBOS*! I've told her to leave it as I'll be down at the weekend and I was going to do exactly that: keep over-filling the washer bottle to clear it out the best I can.
Can you not get her to do this asap?Anything I should do in the meantime for the paintwork? what would be the best thing to clean it with just now?
PKLD said:
Anything I should do in the meantime for the paintwork? what would be the best thing to clean it with just now?
If it was me I'd just nip out with a little bowl or whatever of soapy water and just rinse down the area around the washer jets. The front pillars and mirror cowlings maybe and the roof - who knows where it has got. Boot lid? To be honest any damage is likely done by now 
although hopefully general snow and crud may have absorbed/diluted it.Gassing Station | General Gassing | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff