I bought a few things the other day, including some berry scented screen wash (Mrs FW says the normal stuff smells like cat pee). On the way out I noted they had some the same but concentrated, for only 50p more.

 

During the week I went to Sainsbury's and there was a Halfords next door, I thought I would get some more screen wash as I had ended up using all that I purchased over the weekend.

 

Now knowing to look for the concentrated stuff I grabbed 5lts, I had a quick look to see what the concentration was

 

Bit blurry, but at 100% it works to -10

 

 

 

 

and the ready mixed at 50p less

 

 

 

So it appears that all you get for the additional 50p is a silver bottle, rather than a standard plastic one   Glad I checked

Lidl's screenwash (~£5,99 for 5 litres) can be diluted and works down as far as 0Kelvin IIRC but it's a bit overpowering. I just get the stuff from TPS now. I paid £2.69 with the VAT for 5 litres and at 1 part screenwash to 5 parts water it's good for -5^oC or for -10^oC dilute 1:1

 

That's 10 litres at -10 for £2.69

Poundland stuff mixed with water. Sorted

I've had the normal halfords stuff freeze even when undiluted. Their super concentrated stuff which is good for -20 is better but way more expensive than the lidl stuff, though it does in bubblegum flavour.

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Lidl's screenwash (~£5,99 for 5 litres) can be diluted and works down as far as 0Kelvin IIRC but it's a bit overpowering. I just get the stuff from TPS now. I paid £2.69 with the VAT for 5 litres and at 1 part screenwash to 5 parts water it's god for -5^oC or for -10^oC dilute 1:1

 

That's 10 litres at -10 for £2.69

 

 

 

But does it smell like cat's pee?

But does it smell like cat's pee?

no, it's quite pleasant, not as overpowering as the Lidl stuff

Am I being a bit dense here?

For 50p more you could have 5 litres of concentrated screenwash (which would make a minimum of 10 litres or double the amount at 1:1 dilution of the 5 litre ready mixed stuff that goes straight in your reservoir with no mixing...

And that's bad because...?

Am I being a bit dense here?

For 50p more you could have 5 litres of concentrated screenwash (which would make a minimum of 10 litres or double the amount at 1:1 dilution of the 5 litre ready mixed stuff that goes straight in your reservoir with no mixing...

And that's bad because...?

 

 

 

ready mixed and concentrated both work at -10 straight out of the bottle, so they are both the same.

poundworld ready mix stuff and in winter I get a little from the work( work at a moving, shipping and storage company)

I knew I'd missed something!

Looks like the concentrated one is good value for summer then...

Don't like the smell of this one anyway!

£1 at my local tesco's from the machine outside. Enough to fill a 5l screenwash tank

Simples

Basically the concentrated stuff isn't concenrated then.

I pay £4.99 for 5L at my local car spares shop which i sort of dilute.

Asda, as with just about everything else, is cheaper than the other supermarkets and the quality is good.

 

They were doing 2.5 litres of screen concentrate for £1.95 or two for £2.50 ie 5 litre but it does say freezing point is only -5 C so may ahve to find something better in the next few weeks as we got almost -20C a couple of winters ago.

 

http://direct.asda.com/ASDA-Screenwash---2.5L/001022113,default,pd.html

ready mixed and concentrated both work at -10 straight out of the bottle, so they are both the same.

 

doesn't the concentrated work at -10 when diluted? you end up with more (double?) screen wash of equal performance for 50p extra?

doesn't the concentrated work at -10 when diluted? you end up with more (double?) screen wash of equal performance for 50p extra?

 

No it says -10 at 100%

doesn't the concentrated work at -10 when diluted? you end up with more (double?) screen wash of equal performance for 50p extra?

 

This ^^ 

 

No it says -10 at 100%

 

The halfords website says it's good for minus 10 when diluted down to 5:1 thus making it better value

http://www.halfords.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/product_storeId_10001_catalogId_10151_productId_999338_langId_-1_categoryId_255225

I still wouldn't buy it