What is your experience with rain-x bug removal washer fluid?

as allot of you know i am a tanker driver doing milk pickup. allot of the roads on my route are surrounded by fields on both sides. consequently my truck pickups up almost an abnormal quantity of disgusting bugs. my windshield gets gross even if a clean it. today i picked up a gallon of rain-x bug removal windshield washer fluid. i was wondering if anyone else has tried this type of product and what kind of results i will expect.

 

That rainex is good stuff.
Walmart sells a version of it for less.

 

I've tried everything.
Cheap stuff.
Expensive stuff.
The Rain-X
Even homemade concoctions of water, Dawn, Greased Lightning, ammonia...

Bugs are bugs.
They smear and streak and dry and make miserable mess.

I've always thought trucks should have a feature where you could SPRAY the windshield to get it wet before you activate the wipers.
When you hit the wipe/wash and it sweeps before any liquid comes out...
YOU'RE TOAST.
Especially if you're like me and can't stand anything blocking line of sight... like moth guts or butterfly intestines.

 

Always carry a little bucket and a green scrubby pad and you'll have to climb up on top of the tires to scrub the windshield clean.

 

Make sure you don’t use it going into winter. It freezes. Had to thaw out a car years ago.

 

If you wax your windows, it lasts longer than rain-x and makes it a little bit easier to remove bugs. Just a little

 

Scrubblades. Some don’t like them. I do. Double blade so you have to remember to occasionally remove and clean them (CASTROL SUPER CLEAN).

RainX fluid & RainX aerosol. Season appropriate.

Never start the wipers you don’t ALSO use fluid.

2X coats RainX before leaving Blue Beacon
Side glass & mirrors most important.

$19 extendable handle wash brush from Harbor Freight (wet under water, add DAWN, brush/soak/brush. Get frame/gasket. Finish with normal squeegee). Rinse brush shake dry.

You’ll learn where/when to stop for most effective. Always one area worst.

May have to stop more than once daily. It is what it is.

Driving into afternoon sun VERBOTEN. Gets dangerous you don’t have a daily plan, tools & supplies.

DAWN will strip Rain-X. A BB wash will also. So keep that off side glass & mirrors. Make them easy.

Strip interior glass with R-X compound. A section at a time. Use INVISIBLE GLASS aerosol.

All at Wally besides blades. Get PAPER glass roll to do sides/mirrors/ interior while fueling. Daily minimum on those.

Takes a while

Always start at BLue Beacon. Even if you pay for it. Lacking that, get single-edged razor and work glass perimeter first. Then center. I’ve spent HOURS on a badly neglected tractor. Windex & newsprint.

And you ain’t lived till you hit 300 killer bees at highway speed.

Texas and the South can be bad enough that those unprepared have to pull off the highway depending on what’s hatching. It’s no joke.

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when I come out of Florida in love bug season my truck gets plastered with a thick coating of dead smashed black bugs.
On the way home I always stop at the Iowa 80 truck wash in kenly NC to get it cleaned up.
They use some sort of low pressure sprayer and spray on some type of chemical and the bugs melt right off like magic.
I’ll try to find out what there using this week and report back.

 

I carry a scrub brush with a telescoping handle, a small bucket, a couple gallons of fresh water and a 2 gallon tank sprayer in my jockey box. I mix a little dish soap in the bucket with a half gallon of water, brush down my windshield a couple times to get the bugs off, then rinse it all off with fresh water from the tank sprayer. Works much better than the pole cleaners at the truck stops. I refill my water containers at the hose bib most truck stops have.