windshield fluid sprayer

[Brett Dikeman]

At 9:58 AM -0600 11/29/01, Lundy, Andrew wrote:
>The washer jet are heated NOT the fluid!!  They heat the washer jets so it's
>harder for them to freeze when it's cold out (the water in the ends of the
>nozzles don't freeze).

Sounds about right.  The energy required to heat that amount of fluid
even a few degrees would be quite large.

>!  They (Audi/Porsche)
>has been doing it this way for 24+ years!!

Audi started it in 1989, at least on US spec cars.  Dunno about Porsche.

Curiously, my car doesn't have them.  I think the hood was changed,
or the jets removed; the wiring's in place, but they're regular jets.
Weird.

B
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