Member Since: 07 Sep 2015
Location: Oxford
Posts: 1063
Screenwash capable of dealing with these temperatures..
Having made a real rookie error of failing to check the operating temperature of the screenwash I recently filled up with I am now thawing out the washer bottle and lines..
What screenwash are people using and what's good for the -7 and downwards temperatures?
Thanks
1st Mar 2018 1:44 am
ronp
Member Since: 29 Nov 2006
Location: North Yorkshire
Posts: 15214
Best you can do is buy the concentrate stuff (I always do), but use it neat.
Made the error of topping up the three cars with a weaker solution a couple of weeks ago as I thought the worst of the cold weather was past ...... oh how I was wrong!
Just hoping for no split bottles when it all thaws out.I was a normal heterosexual chap, but in these new woke awakenings I now identify as a Wardrobe.
1st Mar 2018 5:14 am
kajtzu
Member Since: 11 Aug 2017
Location: Helsinki
Posts: 6575
Member Since: 10 Nov 2008
Location: Bomber County
Posts: 4547
I use the euro car parts -70 stuff and can confirm it's worked at -25 last night!
1st Mar 2018 7:39 am
Someone-Gone
Member Since: 21 Dec 2015
Location: Gone
Posts: 5117
Lidl make a great screen wash. You couldn’t freeze it in liquid nitrogen.
1st Mar 2018 7:53 am
tcr4x4
Member Since: 24 Jan 2010
Location: England
Posts: 1526
I usually use Lidl stuff or Halfords concentrate. Hasn’t frozen yet.
1st Mar 2018 8:27 am
lynalldiscovery
Member Since: 22 Dec 2009
Location: Maidstone
Posts: 7274
Ive been running the halfords purple gear with no issues
At work we use autosmart screenwash diluted automatically from a barrel, all the trucks without exception had frozen washer jets and even the lines
1st Mar 2018 8:36 am
discoteca
Member Since: 08 Mar 2010
Location: Warwickshire
Posts: 1477
Comma Xtream is what I always use, not cheap, only found it online but it's great. I'm using it at 1 part concentrate to four parts water at the moment with no issues at -8.
Every year I order 4x5lt around October time. I use it in the summer as well at about 1:10 dilution.
Works for me.
1st Mar 2018 9:44 am
DSL Keeper of the wheelie bin
Member Since: 11 May 2006
Location: Off again! :-)
Posts: 72790
ronp wrote:
Just hoping for no split bottles when it all thaws out.
Same here, filled up a couple of weeks ago before TBFTE was a twinkle in the Siberian eyes. Was -8.2c last night.
1st Mar 2018 10:27 am
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Member Since: 06 Nov 2004
Location: Hook Norton
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1st Mar 2018 10:31 am
stick
Member Since: 13 Jan 2010
Location: hants
Posts: 592
Comma, but I have used it neat when really cold. Rated to -65. When diluted I have had it freeze in the nozzle (outside temps of -20 and driving at 80mph).d4 HSE
1st Mar 2018 10:51 am
sweetpea54321
Member Since: 23 Nov 2015
Location: Bolton
Posts: 212
Halfords -20 Citrus stuff for me.......
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1st Mar 2018 10:51 am
Grianaig
Member Since: 08 Jul 2014
Location: Tyne and Wear
Posts: 1286
Same here. Halfords citrus. Dilute to taste. 2014 MY Discovery XS Indus Silver. Sadly gone. Second last LR of forty eight years continuous ownership.
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