foggy windscreens
Submitted: Sunday, Jun 12, 2005 at 06:50
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Have just tried spraying hair spray(rub in with a cloth) on the inside of the windscreen to stop it misting up. Seems to work OK. Any one got any better ideas?
P.S.The no-name brand hair spray has made the vehicle smell like a pox doctors clerks boudoir!
Reply By: tifino - Saturday, Jun 25, 2005 at 22:04
Saturday, Jun 25, 2005 at 22:04
for windows treatments i've been using rainex (external)since 1978. nothing matches it's performance for the purpose.
For the foggy glass problems I too have tried the rainex anti-fog, alas that particular product failed to impress me. It actually made the problem worse. I've experimented with many other types. Even tried metho.
Well the only success I came up up with was plain old water. Very Hot - the hottest you can bear in fact.
A bucket of it, and use a wettex (not a brand new one though as it deposits it's own smearing contaminants) use one that has been used in the laundry a couple of days only first.
My method:
sitting in the car, dip, squeeze out and then sweep the hot wettex vertically in one direction only, not up-down-up. This helps reduce any re-smearing onto the now hot wet glass surface. (You can demo the same re-smear effect by wiping spectacle glass to and fro with a kleenex)
Finish the job by now redipping and then really squeezing the wettex and repeat the motions. You'll notice the steam effect on the window, and straight away the difference the sqeaky clean surface is. if it has'nt dried in less than 1 min, the surface isnt sqeaky clean yet, just repeat that area.
You won't get any where as much foggyed effects for weeks now. I don't and live in a cold foggy area of SE victoria.
Other effects that compound fogged glass problems come from the vinyl dash. Again the use of very hot water / wettex does a good job. (don't use the same wettex though on the glass as you have used on the dash)
Any fog that does eventuate now will be extremely reduced, so it's always a good idea to use your demister, with aircon selected to utilise the dried air supply.
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