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dan_uk_1984

Member Since: 12 Nov 2008
Location: Bude, Cornwall
Posts: 4014

2006 Range Rover Supercharged 4.2 SC V8 Tonga Green

Which Screen Wash?

Personally in the summer I use Sonax Clear View screen wash. Great performance and very ecconomical, one bottle lasts me all summer and has an easy to use measuring dispenser.

In the winter I use Autoglym All Season Quick Clear screen wash. Not cheap and a pain to measure out - but I've yet to find anything that performs as well.

What do you use?

6th Dec 2010 11:58pm

mzplcg

Member Since: 26 May 2010
Location: Warwickshire. England. The Commonwealth.
Posts: 4029

2014 Range Rover Vogue SE SDV8 Corris Grey

Sonax & Meths mixed with water.

7th Dec 2010 12:21am

Stephen.125

Member Since: 25 Jun 2009
Location: Frodsham
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2017 Range Rover SVAutobiography 5.0 SC V8 Indus Silver

Baby Seal Tears

No actually I used the Einszett Antifrost stuff with a shhot of Einszett Kristall Klar. Although it's not frozen yet it can work out dear.

For example if you want 1l of SW which will work down to -20Deg C it's about £6, -12Deg C is 1.5l for £6

Last year I used the Pink ready mixed Halfrauds premium without issue.

Sadly though it's just been serviced and they appear to have filled up with the sh*t bog-standard LR stuff which promptly froze this morning in -6Deg C

's

I've heard the Sonax is good so may try it.

I used cheap vodka in Riga once as it was 1/3rd price of SW.

7th Dec 2010 12:33am

47p2

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Decasol for me

7th Dec 2010 1:01am

stan
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tap water with a slight touch of fairy liquid....

... - .- -.

Y. O. L. O.
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7th Dec 2010 8:45am

Fox

Member Since: 02 Apr 2010
Location: Essex
Posts: 2313

Land Rover fill it up every service...

And it's never run out.

7th Dec 2010 8:56am

Jem0911

Member Since: 07 Jan 2010
Location: East Northants
Posts: 357

2015 Range Rover Vogue SE SDV8 Corris Grey

Fox wrote:
Land Rover fill it up every service...

And it's never run out.

You's doing some dry miles there bud. 15MY SDV8 Vogue SE

7th Dec 2010 10:24am

Fox

Member Since: 02 Apr 2010
Location: Essex
Posts: 2313

It's the weather down here. I've only used the screenwash a few times in the last month.
It gets cleaned manually each day at work before I go home.

7th Dec 2010 10:46am

Gazellio @ Prestige Cars

Member Since: 22 Jan 2010
Location: Chilterns, UK
Posts: 11309

Make sure you something that kills Legionnaire's disease if you do not use it often!

7th Dec 2010 1:40pm

dan_uk_1984

Member Since: 12 Nov 2008
Location: Bude, Cornwall
Posts: 4014

Gazellio wrote:
Make sure you something that kills Legionnaire's disease if you do not use it often!

I find Legionnaire's really hard to remove, is there anything specific one can use to get rid of them?

7th Dec 2010 1:57pm

Gazellio @ Prestige Cars

Member Since: 22 Jan 2010
Location: Chilterns, UK
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Not sure if your jesting but if your not removing tank and flushing with Boiling water & Detol is the best action to take other wise insert a hose and let it flush out with Detol or similar added....

7th Dec 2010 1:59pm

Fox

Member Since: 02 Apr 2010
Location: Essex
Posts: 2313

Gazellio wrote:
Make sure you something that kills Legionnaire's disease if you do not use it often!

Preliminary research by the Health Protection Agency suggests that in order to protect themselves from Legionnaire’s Disease, drivers should always remember to put screen wash in the reservoir which holds the water that washes the car windscreen.

Following higher than usual incidences of the disease in the summer of 2006, a study undertaken showed that for some reason there was a particularly high incidence of the disease among professional drivers. It was then found that there was a strong correlation between non-professional drivers and a lack of screen wash in their windscreen water reservoirs.

Although drivers could have been contracting the disease from exterior sources where the Legionella bacteria likes to breed, such as air-conditioning units, showers or cooling towers, they could just as easily be getting a dose through open widows or air vents whenever they cleaned their windscreen.

Legionella bacteria breed in warm, stagnant water and are then spread to humans when suspended in droplets of water which hang in the air to be inhaled, exactly what is caused by aerosol systems like air-conditioning, or the fine spray produced by a windscreen washing device.

Although more research needs to be done to find out whether or not screen wash was preventing the Legionella bacteria from breeding, a separate investigation conducted by the Environmental Protection Agency, has shown that one-in-five cars tested came up positive for Legionella in the windscreen reservoir. Of all the cars tested, none of those in which the driver was using a screen wash in the water, had any trace of the disease.

7th Dec 2010 2:02pm

Gazellio @ Prestige Cars

Member Since: 22 Jan 2010
Location: Chilterns, UK
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Thanks Fox

7th Dec 2010 2:03pm

dan_uk_1984

Member Since: 12 Nov 2008
Location: Bude, Cornwall
Posts: 4014

Gazellio wrote:
Not sure if your jesting

Lol, I actually thought you were jesting - seems not.

What if someone in front of me uses their washer and I get sprayed with it? Can the pollution sensor be programmed to be a bio-hazard sensor too?

I have now repeated this incredulous fact around work - no one else seems bothered at the fact we might all die from our screen wash! Well, except 'Slim Deb', but to be fair the pies are guna get her first.

7th Dec 2010 2:41pm

Gazellio @ Prestige Cars

Member Since: 22 Jan 2010
Location: Chilterns, UK
Posts: 11309

dan_uk_1984 wrote:
Gazellio wrote:
Not sure if your jesting

Lol, I actually thought you were jesting - seems not.

What if someone in front of me uses their washer and I get sprayed with it? Can the pollution sensor be programmed to be a bio-hazard sensor too?

I have now repeated this incredulous fact around work - no one else seems bothered at the fact we might all die from our screen wash! Well, except 'Slim Deb', but to be fair the pies are guna get her first.

7th Dec 2010 2:47pm

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