Frozen screen wash

Stonedofmoo said:
Mine keeps freezing too. Don't get the Asda 2.5 litres bottles of screenwash for £1

They looks like a bargain but even neat the damn stuff freezes.
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I decided to go 'all out' and got myself a 5L bottle on concentrated BLUECOL. Dont have any more room in the reservoir to add more screenwash though since it filled to the top....otherwise i would have added hot water :(
 
ashmanq said:
Will this work even though the car is sitting outside (on the drive) in like -9C temperature?

Had a look at the heating element, interesting but im not sure it would fit down the slim long tube that goes down to the reservoir bottle somewhere unseen in the depths of the engine compartment...
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No, it wont, and putting it down there would be mad, if it touches the sides, it will likely melt the bottle. You need to install it properly and mount it so its fairly central in the bottle :D
 
Im worried Ill have to live with frozen screen wash till winter is over :( which is a real danger when im on the motorway everyday for maily commute to work.
 
This happened in my girlfriends car the only way I managed to defrost it was attaching the garden hose to a hot water tap and run it for 5 minutes into the bottle. I then emypted out the water by running the washer jets and filled it with neat screen wash and it was fine on the windscreen at -13c last night.
 
Dangerous Dave said:
This happened in my girlfriends car the only way I managed to defrost it was attaching the garden hose to a hot water tap and run it for 5 minutes into the bottle. I then emypted out the water by running the washer jets and filled it with neat screen wash and it was fine on the windscreen at -13c last night.
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This has got me to thinking, is there any way to extract the water from the reservoir bottle with having to take it out? I could take out the remaining liquid and replace it with bluecol screenwash.
 
My car's tank has also frozen, except the top layer (weirdly enough, that's usually the first to freeze).

It's too full to add either hot water or more solution. :(
 
ashmanq said:
This has got me to thinking, is there any way to extract the water from the reservoir bottle with having to take it out? I could take out the remaining liquid and replace it with bluecol screenwash.
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My girlfriends was solid ice which had also blown the fuse for the pump I added about a litre of warm neat screen wash but it wasn't enough to melt the ice already in the bottle it just sat on top of what was in it. Adding a kettle full of warm water also wasn't enough you need a good amount of water to melt the ice in the bottle which is why I opted for the hose in the end and just let it overflow until it had melted the ice in the bottle.
 
Lidl are apparently selling screenwash cheap at the moment, and it won't freeze even at very low temperatures. Might be worth a look.
 
Back,

Just siphoned off some of the water in the tank using a hose and a bucket.

Warning; Screenwash tastes like death.

Added half a bottle of high quality concentrate, job's a goodun.
 
B&W said:
i guess uve tried putting boiling kettle water over it numerous times?
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I would if i could, the problem is that the only part of the reservoir i can see/access is this little hole at the very front of the engine compartment, the tube from this hole goes down and to the side where i cant see the reservoir bottle itself.
 
yeah, I only feel mildly hallucinogenic just now.

It's like sucking on a straw, you know when the fluids about to hit you, so only got a brief splash.

EDIT: ****** do it all the time with petrol and they are OK! :)
 
My only problem now is to try and find some pipe to use to siphon the screen wash out :( dont have any spare hose piping lying around
 
Nope :( My rig is air cooled (was too cheap to go for water cooling) now im paying for my miserly ways! (was a miser with screen wash)
 
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