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Title: Pure water on the windscreen?
Post by: Dave Willis on April 01, 2015, 10:51:54 pm
Odd thing, whenever I wash the wifes car with pure water, the windscreen smears like crazy the next time it rains - anyone else had this?
Title: Re: Pure water on the windscreen?
Post by: rosskesava on April 01, 2015, 11:22:37 pm
Yup. I think you'll find that ordinary tap water does the same as well.

Windscreen wipers don't make good wfp brushes either.

I add GG4 and a squirt of Tadgh O'Shea's Bio Degreaser. Works brilliantly.
Title: Re: Pure water on the windscreen?
Post by: dazmond on April 01, 2015, 11:28:38 pm
i use gg3 and pure in mine.great results dave!try replacing the wipers as well.makes a big difference.
Title: Re: Pure water on the windscreen?
Post by: Tadgh O Shea on April 02, 2015, 12:43:52 am
Odd thing, whenever I wash the wifes car with pure water, the windscreen smears like crazy the next time it rains - anyone else had this?
Hi Dave, you should get some little waffle wiper blades this will sort it for you. ;D
Title: Re: Pure water on the windscreen?
Post by: Dave Willis on April 02, 2015, 07:40:54 am
vey good  ;D

Going to get expensive buying new blades every time I wash the car Dazmond!
I use GG4 in the water too - doesn't seem to affect my van screen much just her sports car. It has those floppy modern blades - bit like those crappy Moerman Liquidators  :o
Title: Re: Pure water on the windscreen?
Post by: Clever Forum Name on April 02, 2015, 07:54:29 am
My ford transit custom has self parking wipers at the bottom.

When using screen wash and tap water they can take anything up to 30 seconds to park at the bottom of the screen.

Since using just pure water it takes a few seconds. Massive reduction in time......................................................Remember i use Vision as well ;)
Title: Re: Pure water on the windscreen?
Post by: dazmond on April 02, 2015, 08:05:08 am
dave are you still using gg4 in your tank for window cleaning?
Title: Re: Pure water on the windscreen?
Post by: Dave Willis on April 02, 2015, 08:14:02 am
Yep
Title: Re: Pure water on the windscreen?
Post by: Smudger on April 02, 2015, 09:07:09 am
Me too - very grateful to dave for being the lab rat and testing it out and sharing 😎

Darran
Title: Re: Pure water on the windscreen?
Post by: Tadgh O Shea on April 02, 2015, 09:16:27 am
vey good  ;D

Going to get expensive buying new blades every time I wash the car Dazmond!
I use GG4 in the water too - doesn't seem to affect my van screen much just her sports car. It has those floppy modern blades - bit like those crappy Moerman Liquidators  :o
   All Jokes aside Dave, windscreens over time can build up with all types of ingrained soils which can lead to wiper blades not working properly, if you take a bucket of warm water dip in and dampen a magic eraser pad,  give the screen a good scrub drivers side first then turn the pad over to do the passenger side, its amazing what these pads can remove from glass.
Title: Re: Pure water on the windscreen?
Post by: Perfect Windows on April 02, 2015, 11:30:36 am
Odd thing, whenever I wash the wifes car with pure water, the windscreen smears like crazy the next time it rains - anyone else had this?

No
Title: Re: Pure water on the windscreen?
Post by: Dave Willis on April 02, 2015, 02:43:23 pm
All I can think is pure water makes it literally squeaky clean and drags a film off the wipers on first use. It's happened a couple of times now - I had to use Unger Rub Out last time (after all it's useless for anything else), to try and remove it.
Title: Re: Pure water on the windscreen?
Post by: bobplum on April 03, 2015, 10:22:26 pm
Me too - very grateful to dave for being the lab rat and testing it out and sharing 😎

Darran

me too, definite change since using GG4
Title: Re: Pure water on the windscreen?
Post by: Dave Willis on April 03, 2015, 10:52:38 pm
Really? That's interesting. I think the results are better, can't prove it for sure but I think I will  continue to use it,
Title: Re: Pure water on the windscreen?
Post by: Gmeister on April 05, 2015, 04:17:56 pm
Odd thing, whenever I wash the wifes car with pure water, the windscreen smears like crazy the next time it rains - anyone else had this?

think of alk that soap on the windscreen from the washers, to get it clean spot on need to rinse all that soap off!

Like cleaning a house that's been trad years, if not rinsed looks like smear splogged all over!