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From: ARWadsworth on 6 Jun 2010 09:21 "Steve Firth" <%steve%@malloc.co.uk> wrote in message news:1jjo0zk.unduuz4u1xe2N%%steve%@malloc.co.uk... > ARWadsworth <adamwadsworth(a)blueyonder.co.uk> wrote: > >> Does hard water cause a problem to a cars windscreen washer reservoir or >> nozzles? I live in a soft water area and I fill up with nothing but tap >> water and sometimes I add some screenwash if I can be bothered/have some >> available. > > Eventually. Hard water causes a deposit of limescale inside the wash > water container and can cause scale in the pump if the container is not > kept topped up. It also causes limescale to form anywhere where the > water is exposed to the atmosphere - usually at the jets which don't > take much to block up. But has anyone actually suffered from this? I only need to move 15 miles West of where I live to get very hard tap water. I have never heard of anyone there suffering from scale blockage on washer jets. Adam
From: Mortimer on 6 Jun 2010 09:45 "ARWadsworth" <adamwadsworth(a)blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message news:hiNOn.29650$Zg1.8910(a)newsfe10.ams2... > > "Steve Firth" <%steve%@malloc.co.uk> wrote in message > news:1jjo0zk.unduuz4u1xe2N%%steve%@malloc.co.uk... >> ARWadsworth <adamwadsworth(a)blueyonder.co.uk> wrote: >> >>> Does hard water cause a problem to a cars windscreen washer reservoir or >>> nozzles? I live in a soft water area and I fill up with nothing but tap >>> water and sometimes I add some screenwash if I can be bothered/have some >>> available. >> >> Eventually. Hard water causes a deposit of limescale inside the wash >> water container and can cause scale in the pump if the container is not >> kept topped up. It also causes limescale to form anywhere where the >> water is exposed to the atmosphere - usually at the jets which don't >> take much to block up. > > But has anyone actually suffered from this? > > I only need to move 15 miles West of where I live to get very hard tap > water. I have never heard of anyone there suffering from scale blockage on > washer jets. I live in a hard water area. I've always used tap water to which I added the appropriate amount of screen wash (concentration depending on summer/winter). Every few months I've found that my windscreen washer jets become partly clogged: the flow out of one of the four jets (two jets per nozzle) starts to become more feeble or maybe even disappears, requiring me to find a suitably fine piece of wire to insert into the jet so as to unclog it. I've always assumed that this is due to limescale building up on the jet.
From: Silk on 6 Jun 2010 09:49 On 06/06/2010 12:38, Halmyre wrote: > In article<hufpbg$hra$1(a)speranza.aioe.org>, me(a)privacy.net says... >> On 05/06/2010 18:17, Steve Firth wrote: >> >>> I must go into the pre-mixed screenwash market. There's obviously a lot >>> of money to be made. >> >> I only use the proper dealer supplied VW/Audi/Skoda concentrated stuff > > Is their stuff any different from any other stuff? The cheap stuff just doesn't work as well with the fan jet washers. Although the proper VAG stuff is hardly expensive.
From: Mortimer on 6 Jun 2010 09:50 "bod" <bodron57(a)tiscali.co.uk> wrote in message news:871mkiFm4cU1(a)mid.individual.net... >>> Most screenwash additives clog up the filters in the washer pumps with >>> goo, over time. You're better off just using filtered water and no >>> additives, IMO. >> >> Rubbish. >> Water does not clean a dirty windscreen and screenwash does not clog up a >> pump. >> You are talking out of your bum. >> >> About a year ago, I had to clean the goo out of my filter because the > screen wash stuff I was using clogged up the filters. > Since I've used filtered water 'only', I've not had a problem. > > ps, plain filtered water normally cleans my screen, without any > additives. Then you are lucky. I normally use screenwash but when I ran out of windscreen washer water a few days ago I had to use plain water from a garage forecourt and it doesn't clean the grease, crud and dried insects off the windscreen anywhere near as well and it leaves it streaky. I really must get some concentrated screenwash and added it to the tank... I can't imagine that a bit of alcohol in screenwash can cause goo that would clog up the washer pump etc.
From: Silk on 6 Jun 2010 09:54
On 06/06/2010 12:52, Steve Firth wrote: > In the mind of a deluded fool who thinks that his Octavia is something > other than a bland corporate box, obviously. I don't give it a second thought. I have enough self-confidence not to feel the need to hide behind a lump of metal. |