Windshield washer fluid

You need to find one that was born in th snow, like a Canadian.

 

Heated blades are junk. If above 40 degrees you can rainex your windshield. Old style blades are junk in winter. Go to Wal-Mart and buy the new rainex flex beam style about $20 each. Buy purple or pink spay fluid if you are worried about cold. If you can't find purple or pink fluid, buy blue fluid and add 1 bottle of red heat per 1 gallon of blue fluid, this will make for extreme cold rated spray fluid. Also this give you metanol fluid that you can spay into your engine. But thats off topic.

 

I just made our shop a super strong batch of washer fluid. 1/3 methonal 2/3 water and a little blue dye. That’s all washer fluid is.

Then you just hook a bubbler to your tote for a half hour to mix it all up.

 

The purple stuff is amazing.

 

You can buy purple, orange, or yellow from walmart. The yellow is -30 and works really good. Although i never had a problem in a semi with the regular blue stuff freezing my tips. But i never traveled the dakotas in winter. The yellow works better in my car. It don't freeze unless it's really cold going down the road And the tips have yet to freeze up. It also melts windshield ice. Only time i use my scraper is for snow.

Keep your visors down and use defrost mode. It traps the heat between visor and windshield. Helps out tremendously in melting the snow on windshield. THAT trick was discussed on this forum couple years back.

 

Don’t go north of I 20. Problem solved.

 

Yes, you can add rubbing alcohol to washer fluid. But, you do know that washer fluid is partly methyl acohol right?

 

I've heard that advice for 20 years and NEVER seen it have even the smallest effect on the windshield. The defrost vents are at the bottom of the windshield. The visors are at the top of the windshield. You might as well try to empty half a bathtub. Even if it worked, how useful is a clear 2 inches of windshield at the top?

What could work is trap the defrost output between a double layer windshield. The standard glass windshield stays the same. You just add a second plastic layer inside the cab with the defrost vents directed into the gap between glass and plastic.

I too would love to have the electrically heated windshields like a few Ford cars & minivans had some years ago. I

 

Even having a "heated windshield" is not a perfect solution. You would need the heated blades, too. Otherwise your frozen stiff blades won't sweep the dirty water off the windshield.