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Heated windscreen washers
Disco Matt:
My windscreen washers have now frozen on two occasions while driving - I can understand it overnight but not with a hot engine next to them! Does anyone know a simple (and ideally cheap) way to add heated washers to a 300 TDI Disco? I would rather electrically-powered heating than anything involving modifying the cooling system (as I have seen on other sites).
hobbit:
Get some washer tubing, and coil round a heater feed pipe a few times, and plumb into the washer system, with plenty of de-icer in the bottle this would work :wink:
mentalmoshio sophs V8i:
windscreens can crack with very hot water on them just a quick safety think thing .
paddock do a heated windscreen like on the newer cars
Disco Matt:
Thanks - I'm not looking for boiling water (just a few degrees over freezing will do) so I doubt cracking will be a problem!
hobbit:
Yes very hot water and very cold glass dont mix, but this method of washer heating will not cause the screen to crack, as the temp of the washers goes up with the engine temp
You would normally have the heaters inside blowing like hell to warm you up too so the glass will be heated accordingly
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