HEATED washers please!!!

[65RivieraGS]

Probably should include this with what I hate about my Stinger....

WHY NOT HEATER WASHER FLUID NOZZLES!! Goodness, this car has excessive expensive motors: motor for the steering wheel; motor for the sunroof shade; but they can't install $2 on a heated washer fluid system?!! I do use Winter Washer fluid ... I drain the remainder in the tank and add "the right" stuff. Still it freezes once the modifier evaporaes and leaes water.

THIS DRIVES ME CRAZY!!!!

 

[MerlintheMad]

I'll be swizzled; heaters for windshield washers? How common is this?

 

[TimT]

I'll be swizzled; heaters for windshield washers? How common is this?

Very common on premium cars.

 

[HDTurbo]

I've never had RainX washer fluid freeze. I actually made my own 'heater' many years ago by extending the fluid line and wrapping that around the radiator hose!

 

[adam1991]

Very common on premium cars.

My 2017 GTI has heated washer nozzles.

For a 2020 Stinger not to, is a huge oversight.

 

[MerlintheMad]

I've never had RainX washer fluid freeze.

In all my years of driving, I've never had any dedicated washer fluid freeze.

 

[HDTurbo]

In all my years of driving, I've never had any dedicated washer fluid freeze.

Yeah...why would the methanol in that shitty blue stuff evaporate out of an essentially closed system?

 

[vipeboy2000]

I'll be swizzled; heaters for windshield washers? How common is this?

our 2000 5 series has heated washer nozzles..
A lot of times, i don't think the fluid itself is freezing but moisture that is outside from condensation or rain /snow that goes into the nozzle freezes preventing the washer fluid from melting/pushing out the frozen bit.

 

[MerlintheMad]

our 2000 5 series has heated washer nozzles..
A lot of times, i don't think the fluid itself is freezing but moisture that is outside from condensation or rain /snow that goes into the nozzle freezes preventing the washer fluid from melting/pushing out the frozen bit.

If that's ever happened to me, it is lost wisdom.

 

[65RivieraGS]

I think that it is a combination of what Merlin said and that the Methanol DOES EVAPORATE on the residual amount that is let on the head of the washer nozzle. I use the nice Orange Stuff (Rain X) and maybe it's just colder in CT? The oddity is that the outside temp was 12F .... I've been in -10F situations with my other cars that had heated washers, and never experiemced a problem. When I live in Illinois, and the winters were colder back then, and snow drifts were common, I had the shit0blue stuff stuff freeze in -10F and below ..


Anyway ,for the cost of this car, a GT1 should have HEATED WASHERS!!!!!

 

[MerlintheMad]

I think that it is a combination of what Merlin said and that the Methanol DOES EVAPORATE on the residual amount that is let on the head of the washer nozzle. I use the nice Orange Stuff (Rain X) and maybe it's just colder in CT? The oddity is that the outside temp was 12F .... I've been in -10F situations with my other cars that had heated washers, and never experiemced a problem. When I live in Illinois, and the winters were colder back then, and snow drifts were common, I had the shit0blue stuff stuff freeze in -10F and below ..


Anyway ,for the cost of this car, a GT1 should have HEATED WASHERS!!!!!

I haven't experienced -10F in my life. (Well, there was that singular morning where the official temp was just below zero, and on my way to catch the bus a stiff south wind froze my left eye open for a few seconds; freaked me out! That wind chill was probably lower than -10F; but no attending frozen washer fluid occurred.)

 

[RedCal]

Rain-X makes a -45 fluid (-40C and -40F are the same) never had that freeze on me

https://www.canadiantire.ca/en/pdp/rain-x-clearview-all-season-windshield-washer-fluid-45c-3-78-l-0294141p.0294141.html?gclid=Cj0KCQiAlZH_BRCgARIsAAZHSBmHDX2xcjiK6K7UhqpkRXUfBpnyr_lcKhv0mqfB147kqyp9yDu6A4waAvH6EALw_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds#store=30

 

[MerlintheMad]

Rain-X makes a -45 fluid (-40C and -40F are the same) never had that freeze on me

https://www.canadiantire.ca/en/pdp/rain-x-clearview-all-season-windshield-washer-fluid-45c-3-78-l-0294141p.0294141.html?gclid=Cj0KCQiAlZH_BRCgARIsAAZHSBmHDX2xcjiK6K7UhqpkRXUfBpnyr_lcKhv0mqfB147kqyp9yDu6A4waAvH6EALw_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds#store=30

What? Freezing in Celsius is ZERO. In Fahrenheit freezing is 32. So, before you get to ZERO in Fahrenheit you have to drop 32F; -40F is -72F below freezing. Clearly, my lifelong way of comparing the two measuring systems is out of whack with some "standard" conversion system. The Net confirms what you said; but it's all Twilight Zone stuff to me???

 

[HDTurbo]

I think that it is a combination of what Merlin said and that the Methanol DOES EVAPORATE on the residual amount that is let on the head of the washer nozzle. I use the nice Orange Stuff (Rain X) and maybe it's just colder in CT? The oddity is that the outside temp was 12F .... I've been in -10F situations with my other cars that had heated washers, and never experiemced a problem. When I live in Illinois, and the winters were colder back then, and snow drifts were common, I had the shit0blue stuff stuff freeze in -10F and below ..


Anyway ,for the cost of this car, a GT1 should have HEATED WASHERS!!!!!

Sure, OK on the freezing tips...
You're totally correct, 1st world problems suck.

 

[Jayphil]

Sure, OK on the freezing tips...
You're totally correct, 1st world problems suck.

Is is not 1st word problem but north country problems and I would be very mad if my windshield washer would be frozen. In Canada temperature can be cold but water or slush on the road because of salt and/or sun heating dark road surface, In those condition you need your washer fluid and can drain it in just a few days or maybe even a day, driving without functional washer is impossible and very dangerous.

Use -45 fluid and you should be good.

 

[GTA Jay]

I had to pull over on the highway last week and clean my windshield with snow on the side of the road because my nozzles were frozen. Very dangerous, and not what I would consider a “first world problem”.

 

[HDTurbo]

You're right! Sorry for the over-reaction. I'm also subject to subzero temps here. That's why I use the orange "good stuff" and even add the RainX additive to it. Never had a freeze-up.