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Bob1050 wrote: Minus 7 when firing up this morning - biggest problem all day was the windscreen washers. Bizarre that in 2019 you can buy a new car that comes with scooshers that freeze up solid so easily and take ages to thaw out. How expensive is it to design in heated nozzles or pipework and a reservoir that quickly thaws as the engine warms up?
It could be just down to washer concentration, it might be at summer mix?
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Bob1050 wrote: Minus 7 when firing up this morning - biggest problem all day was the windscreen washers. Bizarre that in 2019 you can buy a new car that comes with scooshers that freeze up solid so easily and take ages to thaw out. How expensive is it to design in heated nozzles or pipework and a reservoir that quickly thaws as the engine warms up?
Winterising seems to be something no-one bothers about.
In The Olden Days, (when everything was better, except air quality and Medical science
) the wipers used to stop with the blades over the heater outlets, so they stayed ice free and flexible. Nowadays, on these "better" "modern" cars, they park off the screen, usually in a channel that fills up with slush, and freezes rock solid, so the wipers either pop the linkage apart, or burn the motor out if you touch the washer button by mistake.The washer pipes and outlets used to be over the top of the engine, where the heat kept them defrosted too, not little fan jets moulded into that plastic tray full of permafrost.
Meanwhile, even if you do get the washers to squirt, because they are 75% alcohol, the frozen blades don't fit the screen, so they don't wipe, and the alcohol evaporates in the wind, freezing the remaining mixture onto the screen.
Also, at least one of my Olden Days cars had heater outlets at the end of the dash that went inside the doors, where warm air was ducted to the door mirror, no need for electric heaters...
Progress eh? :laugh:
If it suddenly breaks, go back to the last thing that you did before it broke and start looking there
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