I have found Aquapel's greatest characteristic. It makes rain at night on a motorway totally invisible.

Charging back from Brizzle meet last night at around 6ish. Doing a comfortable "70" mph down the M5 and it started to rain a fair bit. The only clue was the noise of it hitting the screen as it never stayed there long enough to obscure my vision. Beaded straight away and shot up the screen at 100mph. Was great to be able to continue driving at "70" mph and have the same visual capacity as if it weren't raining at all.

Is this the same sorta stuff as rainx?

Yes - but it sounds better TBH, and is certainly cheaper if bought from the right people

Not had chance to apply mine yet, but will do soon....

Steve

How do people rate it against Ombrello (cost aside)

Chris

... and where do you get it?

... and is it any easier to apply than Ombrello?

In the spirit of all the physics questions being bandied around at the moment, could you please explain how the water shoots up the windscreen at 100mph when you are only travelling at an indicated 70mph and there is no headwind?

Hi Guys, I too have Aquapel on my car yet I applied it to side windows and rear screen and a strip down side of windscreen. I dont use motorway as part of my day to day driving, so find it more practical on side windows as anywhere near 30 mph it beads and flows off side windows

Not 100% certain over using on windscreen certainly noticeable that has been applied to part of screen, but same part seems to smear when wipers are used:thumbdwn:

Devonutopia, Do you find this after using on all of the screen especially at lower speeds before airflow takes effect?

I don't use the wipers.

This stuff is the same as ombrello, and I suspect if you were to chemically analyse both, they'd be the same. Obviously it's cheaper coming from the states. It's exactly the same to apply as ombrello - the same caplets.

There's a group buy feeler for Aquapel elsewhere, but I can't look to getting lots into the country to make use of economies of scale until it picks up a fair bit.

Johnhealy?! [sigh]

Ah, in that case I'll just apply the remaining caplet of Ombrello I have in the cupboard this time round

Chris

Not 100% certain over using on windscreen certainly noticeable that has been applied to part of screen, but same part seems to smear when wipers are used:thumbdwn:

I used to find this with Rain-X where I'd cut corners and not buffed the treatment properly, but never experienced it with Ombrello.....

Chris

In the spirit of all the physics questions being bandied around at the moment, could you please explain how the water shoots up the windscreen at 100mph when you are only travelling at an indicated 70mph and there is no headwind?

It contains a new type of "dark matter" which has special static electricity properties which are attracted to the clouds from were the water drops came from, thus it travels up the screen, but only when the car is in motion and in a state to generate static, at standstill the water drops fall down the screen in a normal fashion.

HTH

Taz

So it's nothing to do with treadmills then? :confused:

Chris

I was thinking that perhaps the draught from the pushbike on a treadmill next to the motorway was generating a 30 mph gust of wind that acceleated the water on a linear plane, proportional to the circumference of the tyres rotational speed..

..or something?