[s-cars] Windshield Washers not spraying? (Yes there is fluid)

[Marc Gorelick]

Try this stuff, it works great and sounds like the same mixture you are 
talking about:

http://www.p21s.com/products/bis_wwb.html

It's available at most decent "car stuff" websites.

Marc

At 11:19 PM 2/12/2004 -0500, Franco Barber wrote:
>On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 10:57:24AM -0800, Kevin Campbell wrote:
> > I dump a bottle of isoproyl alcohol in with my washer fluid.  Seems to
> > do the trick.
>
>VW/Audi used to distribute, under the Autobahn brand, something
>they called the "Premium Windshield Washer Concentrate".
>The active ingedients were isopropyl alcohol and glycol ether.
>This was pricey stuff, but it worked great, smelled great,
>and didn't freeze in cold weather.  It came as a concentrate,
>was tinted yellow instead of blue, and you added x parts water
>to y parts concentrate according to what temperature you needed
>to protect yourself from. A ratio of 1:1 got you to -5 degrees.
>
>It came as factory fill in the windshield washer tank on my 95 A6,
>and they gave me a little pint bottle of the stuff so I would keep
>using it.
>
>Unfortunately, VW/Audi no longer sell this product.
>Now they distribute something called "Windshield Washer Concentrate."
>It is still a concentrate and you mix it according to what temperatures
>you see in your area, but it contains Methanol, is blue, and in my
>experience doesn't clean the windshield as well in cold weather.
>
>The label claims that a 1:1 mix will get you protection
>down to -30 degrees, but I think they're talking about at what temperature
>it will freeze in the washer fluid tank, not at what temperature it
>will freeze on your windshield.  In my experience the old yellow
>stuff worked much better than this blue stuff they sell now.
>
>I've still got one bottle of the yellow stuff left that I'm hanging
>on to like a bottle of fine wine.
>
>Has anyone tried the yellow windshield washer fluid that Prestone
>sells?  I don't think it's Isopropyl based.  I just read the label
>the other day, and I thought it was methanol and glycol ether.
>But my memory isn't what it used to be.
>
>Franco
>
>
>
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