Windscreen Washer Cleaner

[NYOPA]

Hi Everyone

I have been sadly dissapointed for the last few years with the quality ( or lack of) in what I put in my windscreen washer water. Bug off is great for bugs but completely useless for bird crap and other road nasties. All the others I have tried are in varying degrees of bad.

So what do you guys give the thumbs up to???

thanks as always in advance.

david

[Flukey]

Windex, watered down

[ZAP]

I got a little sample bottle of a concentrated washing up detergent.

So far it has lasted me 5 years as it only needs a drop in the washer bottle.

I have never had any issues with paint damage and it will clean sh!t of a blanket, so bird poop of a windscreen will be no problem.

[Houndie]

Yep, I use Dawn washing up detergent.

[Cro]

I never thought of adding my own stuff in there. My service dept adds in their stuff and tops it up every time I take it in. It is pretty crap though, especially when it comes to bugs. I'm interested in this also cause my windscreen is usually bug splattered.

[Dagabond]

  Cro said:

I never thought of adding my own stuff in there. My service dept adds in their stuff and tops it up every time I take it in. It is pretty crap though, especially when it comes to bugs. I'm interested in this also cause my windscreen is usually bug splattered.

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15,000k's without cleaning it will do that..

Bar's Bug's white bottle green text work's for me, might have a go at the Dawn washing detergent though...

[drcook]

go to yahoo.com.au and into the drive section. there was a report about a week ago comparing all the popular window washer products on the market

[Guest Mal]

I just use water.. I have a small Windex spray bottle in the console for hard to move stuff.. I don't use dishwashing detergents due to most have salt added to them.

[Macktheknife]

I mostly use Bars Bugs.

Years ago I used to make my own using "Calgon" water softener, then about 10% Metho and 2-3 drops of a good washing up detergent. All to about a 2 litre capacity.

Stopped the webbing and worked very well as a cleaner.

[Antisocial]

Mal is right.

I remember seeing an automotive tips show on TV years ago. They put some car wash mixed with water, and some dish washing liquid and water into 2 separate mild steel containers and left them for a day.

The one with dish washing liquid had started rusting badly (all bright orange inside), the one with car wash had not.

I would think the same applies to washing the windscreen, only worse because you don't rinse the car after washing the windscreen.

As an aside my T used to take about 4 wipes before a piss weak little dribble of water came out the washer nozzles. I hated both the delay as the dry wipers scratched the windscreen then the lack of water.

At the last service I mentioned it as something I wanted fixed, and the guy said, "yeah the XT I took home last week did that.... perhaps they all do".

But when I tried it in my new Buffoon, I was greeted by an instantaneous torrent as thousands of litters of water sprayed all over the windscreen (well at least compared to the T).

I wonder if it is that different from car to car, or something that declines as the car ages, and the bottle fills with contaminants like algal growth?