Looking for the best washer fluid

Deliver to FedEx. Drive through their tractor/trailer wash. Get out and use your wool wash mitt with some dawn on it, drive back through their tractor/trailer wash. Repeat as necessary. 3 times is my record. Truck looked good for basically free.

RainX all my windshield/windows. I like watching the bugs ricochet off. I never use my washer fluid for bug removal. It just makes a mess and pushes the bug goo around.

I use mothers or whatever is cheap to polish the aluminum on my steers. Takes me about 5 minutes a wheel. My truck has those black wheel covers in the drives. I do that every couple of weeks.

Rinse my motor off and spray some of the bits with armor all or cheapest. I’m not trying to win a truck show just make DOT think twice.

A clean and shiny WE truck is a pretty rare sight...like a shooting star.

I’ve always wanted to go to Maryland and watch @MACK E-6 favorite coups freak at my truck. I think they might frame a picture of me. LOL

 

When I decided to go back on the road 11 years ago, I had to jump through some hoops to get my CDL back as well as take a job with kind of a crappy local company. That company gave me an old 9600 that leaked more oil than the Exxon Valdez. I'd spend an hour or two in my driveway every weekend, pressure washing the #### out of that thing.

Anyhow, I had just left the house and got pulled in for a level 1 in a rest area in Alabama and was kind of sweating bullets...

DOT man says, "Maaaan, this ol' thing is clean. Guess I won't be getting any violations off this one. We'll have you on your way in a minute."

Got a sticker for it.

 

Thats what I’m talking about! BOOM!

I call it the sniff test. Get by that and they let you roll on.

 

I think road grime that builds up on the windshield contributes to the problem. It's like a sticky gummy transparent layer. You dont even know it's there untill it rains and everything looks really blurry. It's hard for the wipers to remove bugs and snow when it's on there.

Try to avoid using the truck stop squeegee at the fuel island to wash the windows. There is often diesel fuel and DEF mixed in from people that do odd things... Just pick up a spray bottle, and your own squeegee. Put some water and a few drops dish soap in the spray bottle and only use that to clean the glass.

Alot of truck stops sell those brass pads for cleaning, like a steel wool pad but made of brass. Those will help get the grime off the windshield. When you use one of those you can feel the resistance bumpy spots from the grime stuck on the windshield. Don't need to press hard, just more elbow grease.

Once the grime is off the cheap washer fluid will do get the job done. A good set of wiper blades help, wiper blades don't seem to last as long as they used to.

 

Yeah, but I don't like the vision of going warp drive through outer space as the rain drops fly up the windshield.

 

That’s 1/2 the fun. I start making Chewbacca sounds and yelling “pew pew pew!”

 

one of the reasons why i had stopped using rain-x as well.

that and the seemingly more glare from oncoming headlights on the beaded up water

 

I use the cheapest blue washer fluid I can find, just put a drop of dawn into it, just a drop.

 

I don’t think anything would have helped here. Last week in North Dakota.