From: Mr Pounder on

"Mortimer" <me(a)privacy.net> wrote in message
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> "bod" <bodron57(a)tiscali.co.uk> wrote in message
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>>>> 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.

Bod is talking out of his bum.

Mr Pounder
>


From: Mr Pounder on

"Silk" <me(a)privacy.net> wrote in message
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> On 06/06/2010 14:37, bod wrote:
>
>>> 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.
>
> That's because you're using that cheap shite Firth uses. In my opinion,
> that shows a typical slapdash attitude all too prevalent today.

Yeah!!!!!!!

Mr Pounder


From: Ed Chilada on
On Sun, 6 Jun 2010 17:03:41 +0100, %steve%@malloc.co.uk (Steve Firth)
wrote:

>ARWadsworth <adamwadsworth(a)blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> Thats just crud/grit in the water supply. If it was limescale build up at
>> that rate your house taps would fail every year.
>
>Last time I looked, a washer jet on a car was the same diameter as a
>pin. The taps in my house vary but few of them are less than 15mm
>diameter.

The amount of water (and therefore limescale), that passes through
the average tap is miles more than a washer jet, even when you scale
to size.
From: Mr Pounder on

"Halmyre" <no.spam(a)this.address> wrote in message
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> 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?
>
> --
> Halmyre
>
> This is the most powerful sigfile in the world and will probably blow your
> head clean off.

HELL!
I love that sig.

Mr Pounder


From: ARWadsworth on

"Silk" <me(a)privacy.net> wrote in message
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> On 06/06/2010 17:41, ARWadsworth wrote:
>> "Silk"<me(a)privacy.net> wrote in message
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>>> On 06/06/2010 16:19, ARWadsworth wrote:
>>>
>>>> Thats just crud/grit in the water supply.
>>>
>>> Don't be stupid. There's no "crud/grit" in the UK water supply.
>>
>> So our tap water is as pure as Princess Di then?
>
> That's an odd analogy. I'm not really sure what you mean. Anyway, UK
> tap-water is as good as anything most of the time. There are always
> exceptions, but they're statistically unimportant.

No foreign bits ever got stuck up her pipe work then?


Adam