[Vwdiesel] Cold car and windshield wiper issues

[Erik Lane]

An update on my trip:

I worked on my wiper motor on a day that got as warm as about 32 F,
which was much nicer than I was worrying about! I played with the
wipers and shot some silicone/graphite lube down in the central shaft
and worked them back and forth. They started moving really nice. Then
once I got to a more populated area on our drive home where my wife
knew of a Wal-Mart we stopped to get new wiper blades, since the old
ones were getting sticky and it was getting really ugly on my
windshield. (Also on this trip I lost my windshield cleaner hose.
There's always something!)  :)  After finding the Wal-Mart closed down
we went to a K-mart and they had the blades. I got them replaced and
it worked great. I have no more problems with dirty windshield!

Thanks everyone! I'm home now and we had a great trip.

Erik

On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 9:27 AM,  <LBaird119 at aol.com> wrote:
> In a message dated 11/25/2010 10:14:03 PM Pacific Standard Time,
> tadc at europa.com writes:
>
>> +1 for Rain-X, although I've never tried it in very cold weather.
>>
>>
>
>  I once waxed my Mustang glass.  Seemed to do about the same thing only
> it tended to leave a lot of tiny droplets at times that would sometimes
> annoy
> me more than a film of water (wipers tend to distract/annoy me as is).
>    Loren
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