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Heated windscreen washers
stageonesimmo:
It'll be the jets freezing first - wind chill factor and all that, heating the water in the pipes by wrapping it around the heater pipe for a good few turns will help, but it wont over-come the problem of the jets freezing - I know through experience as I've tried this before - the only way to cure it once and for all is to fit heated jets............
peasey:
hobbit you are a very cleaver man!! what a great idea,why i never thought of that i dont know
Disco Matt:
--- Quote from: "stageonesimmo" ---It'll be the jets freezing first - wind chill factor and all that, heating the water in the pipes by wrapping it around the heater pipe for a good few turns will help, but it wont over-come the problem of the jets freezing - I know through experience as I've tried this before - the only way to cure it once and for all is to fit heated jets............
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I guessed that might be the case - I'd rather the setup was electrical rather than relying on engine heat as it takes a good 15mins for my engine to get up to running temperature at this time of year. I'll keep looking - I can't believe LR didn't offer this as an option on the Disco 1 for colder climates (or alternatively that nobody makes a kit).
hobbit:
I remember back in Germany in the early eighties, they had a metal pipe with a plastic sleeve moulded round it and a nozzle on each end, only a few marks, you sliced the heater pipe and fitted this in between
I had a new Datsun Cherry then, it worked great, even in their -10 and below temps we had regularly, but the pipe system works just as well, you just need a couple of connectors to splice the tube into the system, loads of washer anti freeze in the bottle helps with the wind chill freezing, still not a hundred percent though
I found having a washing up liquid bottle of neat washer anti freeze in the cab handy so I could reach round and squirt it onto the windscreen as a last resort
Landynuts:
What about this. RANGE ROVER HEATED WINDSCREEN WASHER JET FITTING
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