So if you keep the correct strength of screen wash in your washer bottle, are these any use in keeping the washers working during the winter?

Steve

This is the first time I have had them on a car. No blockages during the last bad spell. (Wipers still froze and skated over the water on the screen though.)

Edited 15 December, 201015 yr by Hillhound

This is the first time I have had them on a car. No blockages during the last bad spell. (Wipers still froze and skated over the water on the screen though.)

They're only £35... so why not...?

Heated Windscreen worth the money tho!

Al.

Just to play devils advocate I drive from Ipswich to London every day and with the temp at -1 i have lost all washer use in about 25 mins and mine are supposedly heated........

SNOB

I used to live in the north east of our great country before heated windscreens were an option on most cars adn never had the washers freeze or the water freeze onto the windscreen. I've always put this down to haveing the correct concentration of screenwash for the conditions and for the past 25 years I've been using the Decasol brand of screen wash made to a concentration that won't freeze until -18C. It can start to look like a blue slush puppy beyond -10C but never frozen in the washer lines or on the window.

The same concentration is great in winter for removing the bugs that yuou inevitably build up in the warmer weather, so a good all round solution.

My Escort Cosworth is the only car I have owned that had a heated screen which was also linked to the washers, in the six years I had it, the car was driven daily and never once used the heated screen.