Just ordered a tonne of screen wash for work.

Many bottles of this arrived: http://www.halfords.com/motoring/engine-oils-fluids/screenwash-de-icer/halfords–10-concentrate-screenwash-5l-berry

“Berry scented”!?! Really!?!

What will they think of next? Perhaps I should suggest oil with glitter in….

oil with glitter in….

I’ve got that !

on the way out of the engine 🙁

Petrol additives so that you get strawberry flavoured bubbles coming out the exhaust

I’ve got that berry scented screen wash. It is nice – I almost look forward to having to give the windscreen a squirt…..!

I’ve had lemon scented screen wash before, it was like driving through a Lenor advert.

But in these times of austerity, and while in the depths of winter, I am sticking with minimally diluted garage screen wash, providing a lovely ‘tramp in an underpass’ atmosphere on the way to work.

The apple scented stuff is quite nice I recall, however Aldi stuff seems to work fine!

from the looks of it round here , folks think you have to buy a new car to fill that bottle.

Its not a bad idea, in summer after my car was sat for a while the screen wash went stinky, smelt of eggs every time I washed the screen until I’d been through a whole wash bottle.

It makes more sense than chemical toilet solution that smells of bubblegum.

Love the enthusiasm.

I am now thinking that our fleet will be bringing a cbeebies element to town centres and motorways. As our saloons fly past at 40 in 30 mph the kids on their way to school will inhale deeply and smile!

Maybe, but your cars passing and them inhaling then smiling will be entirely coincidental 🙂

Who not just fill the car up with raw ether?

the berry scented one is awful. picked up a feebie, and sploshed it in mine, and it smells of rotting apples.

bleuuurk

Just something for you all to consider.

http://www.colesandblackwell.co.uk/drivers-at-risk-from-legionnaires-disease

It’s health and safety gone mad I tell thee…..

(PS this actually a standard legionella assessment risk to consider for all company vehicles).

As a motorcyclist who often gets a taste from cars in front washing their windscreens I have to say the apple ones are my favourite. They are all better than getting a whiff of fag smoke.

Mother in law uses the scented screenwash because the normal stuff irritates her eyes.

Bloke at work sprayed his windscreen the instant I rode past on the cycle lane. Got a right faceful, I wish it had been berry flavoured.

I ran strawberry scented 2 stroke oil on the mx bike – all my mates could tell when they were coming up for a pass!

Ooo ooo ooo!

This reminds me of something I saw on the M4 the other day I’d completely forgotten about!!!

Driving along and I pass a BMW Coupe, 335 of some description I think so not a ‘4’ as I pull along aside I notice he’s got what looks like that Fluro / Areo / whatyoucallit paint the F1 guys use on test days when they’re trying to work out what their front wings are doing striping up the front wing and I’m thinking “that’s a bit much for any F1 fan” odd, but less offensive than Puma Ferrari F1 trainers (you know who you are) – I take another glance and he’s got his wipers on full blast trying to clear the stuff as more blast out of his washer jet.

It took me a while, but I had to conclude that someone’s put coolant in his washer bottle! Either he’s needed coolant and put in the wrong hole (no laughing at the back).

Whats wrong with fairy liquid scented screenwash like the rest of us?

‘S cruelty to fairys. Also, WTF does a fairy smell like?

WTF does a fairy smell like?

very clean

ninfan – Member

Whats wrong with fairy liquid scented screenwash like the rest of us?

Does fairy liquid stop the water freezing? 😉

“Whats wrong with fairy liquid scented screenwash like the rest of us?”

because as far as window screen wash goes – id rather use my own piss.

if you like a smeared film left on your window crack on. – coke works to remove the film if you dont want to buy TFR.

i fooking hate it – i am a converted cheapskate – as a student i put fairy in if i remembered – mostly ran just water , then one day it froze and i had a low sun dirty windscreen drive down the a96 and thought – **** this lifes to short not to spend 3 quid on screenwash for safety of me and others.

Whats wrong with fairy liquid scented screenwash like the rest of us?

Not the greatest of ideas. Aside from anything else it’s not going to stop your fluid from freezing in this weather.

Many years ago I once naively washed my car using Fairy Liquid rather than car shampoo. When it dried, it’d stripped whatever the top layer of the car’s finish was, left it completely matt with the colour badly faded.

left it completely matt with the colour badly faded.

a sort of mild green ?

I’ve always used Fairy Liquid. I thought whatever you use would freeze up at some point. Mind you I use warm water as a de-icer and apparently you’re not supposed to do that either.

slowoldman – Member

I’ve always used Fairy Liquid. I thought whatever you use would freeze up at some point.

The Halfords stuff is good down to -4degC if mixed 50/50. So I mix it a bit stronger than that during the winter months.

i use concentrate – neat during winter – but it gets propper cold up here.

fairy has alsorts of salts in – thatll be what dried onto your car.

I slosh it in neat regardless of the weather!

life is too short for mixing screen wash

Washing up liquid contains a lot of salt and can be abrasive, so best not used on paintwork. I do occasionally use washing up liquid on my screen during the summer months though.

O/T

Way back when I worked in the offices of a haulage firm. A lot of the drivers swore by using vinegar and newspaper to demist the inside of their screens. I imagine the smell was challenging, but then the smell of a porn-filled cab slept in for days at a time by a long distance truck driver is also pretty pungent.

I love the smell of screen wash in the morning.

but then the smell of a porn-filled cab slept in for days at a time by a long distance truck driver is also pretty pungent.

Alledgedly?

Way back when I worked in the offices of a haulage firm. A lot of the drivers swore by using vinegar and newspaper to demist the inside of their screens. I imagine the smell was challenging, but then the smell of a porn-filled cab slept in for days at a time by a long distance truck driver is also pretty pungent.

White vinegar doesn’t smell, AFAIK.

Way back when I worked in the offices of a haulage firm. A lot of the drivers swore by using vinegar and newspaper to demist the inside of their screens. I imagine the smell was challenging, but then the smell of a porn-filled cab slept in for days at a time by a long distance truck driver is also pretty pungent.

You don’t really need the vinegar – newspaper on its own is really good for getting the insides of windscreens clean.

The Shell screen wash smelt of hot cross buns a few years back. That was AWESOME.

My windscreen was always extra well cleaned when a bottle of that had gone in. 😀