What does everyone recommend to use in the washer bottle for cleaning your windscreen
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What does everyone recommend to use in the washer bottle for cleaning your windscreen
Dishwash liquid cause I'm cheap.
I use the rainex stuff that works with rainex windscreen treatment. That stuff is gold, really good. Pain in the arse to apply though.
Best is the Wurth additive.
But Bars Bugs is very good. We use both at work.
BB is very good in a spray bottle to clean the glass and wiper blades. Use a 100% concentration for that.
But in the w/screen reservoir use 25ml/L of water
Wurth additive for me
Wurth is wurth it.
Another for Wurth....their citrus based one is a winner.
I read to use acetone on a rag to clean yr wiper blade rubbers, tried it on an older set on the Ute, worked well
Plain old CRC works nicely for that too.Quote:
Originally Posted by Maca49
Sorry to hijack the thread but I get a nasty film/growth on my windscreens. I normally use bars bugs but have tried lots of products. Attachment 241458
It shows up really bad when there's sunstrike.
If I'm too cheap to buy bars bugs I use spray and wipe
If you have glass cover new windscreen might be on the cardsQuote:
Originally Posted by No good names left
A shot of meths
I'll get some off the Wurth stuff & see how it goes thanks guys
When I bought my current ute last year I drove it down from Palmerston North and when I got off the ferry in Picton it was getting dark and beginning to rain, Despite the windscreen looking clean I couldn't see a bloody thing especially when lights approached me, stopped in Kaikoura and got a bottle of this stuff and it cleared it up straight away. Turns out the detailer at the dealership had got a bit carried away and waxed the bloody windscreen which explains why no amount of plain water was taking it off. Have kept up using it and found it really good.
https://www.mitre10.co.nz/shop/autos...-32ml/p/407378
yep ive been using same the last 12 months- best thing everQuote:
Originally Posted by Ryan_Songhurst
That one's only 1-2 years old, I think it's in the water here as both cars have it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Carbine
I've tried meths, kero, turps, acetone and a few polishing compounds but am a little wary of those. They all worked a little, sometimes with huge effort but nothing has worked easily so farQuote:
Originally Posted by 300winmag
Thanks, will try that tomorrowQuote:
Originally Posted by Ryan_Songhurst
Look awfully like the Wurth stuff I have at work but different label & made in Germany gives it away too. Good stuff [emoji106]Quote:
Originally Posted by Ryan_Songhurst
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I was going try that but can't get it in Wanganui miter10 that's why I askedQuote:
Originally Posted by Ryan_Songhurst
I can get the Wurth through some one I know
https://www.pacer.co.nz/product-grou...glass-cleaning
Pacer products are pretty friggen good. Also recomend the vehicle wash (grapewash) biodegradeable aswel.
Products are top notch and cheap.
Also run RAINX once its washed for 5 mins work water beads off
$1 at most intersections in bro-town gets you a reasonably clean windscreen and a heads up on whatever else you may fancy…..
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That’s what I was thinking. I’ve been using the Wurth stuff but only because I kept finding the little bottles stuffed everywhere while packing up my father in laws shed.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mathias
Try cloudy ammonia or handy AndyQuote:
Originally Posted by No good names left
I’ve been told by those that use ammonia from freezing works etc that it really works - but NEVER let any run into the vent at the bottom of the windscreen or you’ll regret it next time you drive with the heater/demister on.Quote:
Originally Posted by omark
(think tear-gas effect)
A car painter told me years ago mikee it fucks the paint? Can anyone shed any light on that being true ?Quote:
Originally Posted by mikee
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Just fkn lolQuote:
Originally Posted by shift14
Bit like africa
Anything with worth or 3M on label
Doesn't matter what it is works for its purpose
That mitre 10 link I'm gonna try
Rain x does work better than replacing wiper blades - the windscreen treatment job
No mitre 10 south of chch carries it???
From my experience it tends to strip any polish off and dulls the paint and I THINK it promotes rust in some way. (that’s my 2cents worth!)Quote:
Originally Posted by BRADS
Caltex/Challenge have it, that's where I got it in Kaikoura and have got it from there in Oamaru alsoQuote:
Originally Posted by Sharki
the spray foam type cleaners work pretty well to get the stuff off. Also got some stuff same as we used in the open cut in the washer bottle. Thats not too bad either but have to go and have a squiz in the garage as I cant remember what it was. Its purple and I think i got it from BNT
Been using Handy Andy for years. Just don't use too much. Half a cap.
I use this stuff when my washer bottle is empty its 5L capacity so i just dose the washer bottle with 200mL of this stuff and fill the washer bottle to the top works a treat and 4L bottle lasts years
every 6 months when i wax/polish my car normally polish the glass aswell all windows and water beads off for afew weeks at least on the windscreen lasts longer on side windows because no wiper, also use good wiper blades not tridon nasties
https://cleaningproducts.net.nz/prod...iAx7n3F3j8SgkA
I find road film best removed with a handful of wet fescue type grass from road side.
Soggy newspaper USED to work too - something in the old sort of newsprint I suspect.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gamehunter
Not so good these days it seems.
