Screenwash may save your life
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From: bod on 14 Jun 2010 08:09 GT wrote: > "bod" <bodron57(a)tiscali.co.uk> wrote in message > news:87mjiqFimjU1(a)mid.individual.net... >> John wrote: >>> "Chelsea Tractor Man" <mr.c.tractor(a)hotmail.co.uk> wrote in message >>> news:1r7pwjwoocr2t.1mg3b7tns0x4q.dlg(a)40tude.net... >>>> On Mon, 14 Jun 2010 09:37:58 +0100, Conor wrote: >>>> >>>>> Cheers for that. I regularly partake in a glass of windscreen wash when >>>>> I'm out for a drive. >>>> you probably do if you wash the screen with a window open. >>> Having had a foul smell from my washers I can understand the risk. >>> >>> Incidentally - Legionella is spread by an aerosol mist - not by drinking. >>> >>> Let's expect to see antibacterial screenwash additives (I could have done >>> with some). I flushed my washer tank with a hose pushed into the bottom - >>> but the smell came back. >> Why not just add a few drops of pure alcohol to each fill? > > What a waste - why not put screenwash in the screen washer bottle and save > the alcohol for inclusion in a glass of orange juice of an evening!! > > I've been adding blue screenwash for years and now the pump filters have slowly gummed up with a sticky film. The bloke next door said it happened to his last car as well, he's had no trouble for years since he stopped adding anything. Bod
From: GT on 14 Jun 2010 09:19 "bod" <bodron57(a)tiscali.co.uk> wrote in message news:87mkfiFon5U1(a)mid.individual.net... > GT wrote: >> "bod" <bodron57(a)tiscali.co.uk> wrote in message >> news:87mjiqFimjU1(a)mid.individual.net... >>> John wrote: >>>> "Chelsea Tractor Man" <mr.c.tractor(a)hotmail.co.uk> wrote in message >>>> news:1r7pwjwoocr2t.1mg3b7tns0x4q.dlg(a)40tude.net... >>>>> On Mon, 14 Jun 2010 09:37:58 +0100, Conor wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Cheers for that. I regularly partake in a glass of windscreen wash >>>>>> when >>>>>> I'm out for a drive. >>>>> you probably do if you wash the screen with a window open. >>>> Having had a foul smell from my washers I can understand the risk. >>>> >>>> Incidentally - Legionella is spread by an aerosol mist - not by >>>> drinking. >>>> >>>> Let's expect to see antibacterial screenwash additives (I could have >>>> done with some). I flushed my washer tank with a hose pushed into the >>>> bottom - but the smell came back. >>> Why not just add a few drops of pure alcohol to each fill? >> >> What a waste - why not put screenwash in the screen washer bottle and >> save the alcohol for inclusion in a glass of orange juice of an evening!! > > I've been adding blue screenwash for years and now the pump filters have > slowly gummed up with a sticky film. The bloke next door said it happened > to his last car as well, he's had no trouble for years since he stopped > adding anything. This is not intended to be either pedantic or informative, but the -8 stuff from alfhords is pink (their blue stuff was only -3 or -5, I forget which) and doesn't seem to 'gunk' any jets or pipes.
From: Halmyre on 14 Jun 2010 10:04 On 14 June, 09:18, Chelsea Tractor Man <mr.c.trac...(a)hotmail.co.uk> wrote: > by stopping legionares disease developing in the reservoir What a load of rubbish...mon dieu! I 'ave dropped mah kepi blanc in le desert! Zut alors. -- Halmyre
From: ARWadsworth on 14 Jun 2010 10:04 "John" <Who90nospam(a)ntlworld.com> wrote in message news:shnRn.30492$nz1.15457(a)hurricane... > > "Chelsea Tractor Man" <mr.c.tractor(a)hotmail.co.uk> wrote in message > news:1r7pwjwoocr2t.1mg3b7tns0x4q.dlg(a)40tude.net... >> On Mon, 14 Jun 2010 09:37:58 +0100, Conor wrote: >> >>> Cheers for that. I regularly partake in a glass of windscreen wash when >>> I'm out for a drive. >> >> you probably do if you wash the screen with a window open. >> -- >> Chelses Tractor Man >> Gone Beyond the Ultimate Driving Machine >> > > Having had a foul smell from my washers I can understand the risk. > > Incidentally - Legionella is spread by an aerosol mist - not by drinking. So should I add some screenwash to the tank in my loft before I have a shower? Adam
From: ARWadsworth on 14 Jun 2010 10:08
<boltar2003(a)boltar.world> wrote in message news:hv4vhq$a8s$1(a)speranza.aioe.org... > On Mon, 14 Jun 2010 11:13:37 +0100 > "John" <Who90nospam(a)ntlworld.com> wrote: >>Incidentally - Legionella is spread by an aerosol mist - not by drinking. > > This really is Scare Story of the Week isn't it. What next - don't change > your > oil regularly and you'll be devoured by some mutant bug that lives on > dipsticks? Whoever did this "research" really needs to find something more > worthwhile to do with their time. > > Was the research sponsored by Holts? Adam |