Photo-flo as wiper fluid

[kingbuzzie]

Sometimes you have to be creative due to the shelter at home. I recently found out that rain-x wiper fluid additive can coat the newfangled wiper fluid fill sensors, causing the light to turn on. The next best solution to pulling the sensor (which is in a very, VERY inconvenient location) is soap. Some drops of photo-flo and distilled water not only cleaned the sensors off, it works great in a pinch.

 

[R.Gould]

The only additive I have ever used in any of my classic car's windscreen washersis a good squeeze of good old washing up liquid, and I use a classic car as my every day transport, cleans well and does not freeze

 

[Rick A]

Did you remember to change your blinker fluid while you were at it.

 

[MattKing]

Sometimes you have to be creative due to the shelter at home. I recently found out that rain-x wiper fluid additive can coat the newfangled wiper fluid fill sensors, causing the light to turn on. The next best solution to pulling the sensor (which is in a very, VERY inconvenient location) is soap. Some drops of photo-flo and distilled water not only cleaned the sensors off, it works great in a pinch.

Photo-flo (pure surfactant) - seems like a good idea.
Soap - not so much.
Most soap has a lot of other stuff in it.
The most important question though is: what dilution of Photo-flo did you use?

 

[kingbuzzie]

Photo-flo (pure surfactant) - seems like a good idea.
Soap - not so much.
Most soap has a lot of other stuff in it.
The most important question though is: what dilution of Photo-flo did you use?

The brief squirt dilution.

 

[Vaughn]

Other uses -- great!

Bought a bottle of the stuff and it is enough to last way past my lifespan.

 

[Sirius Glass]

Window glass cleaner such as Windex.

 

[grainyvision]

I'd hope you're in a tropical climate. In my area some kind of anti-freezing agent is an absolute hard requirement until at least May

 

[Richard Man]

Next people are going to extract coffee from Caffenol ;-)

 

[BAC1967]

Did you remember to change your blinker fluid while you were at it.

Don't forget to grease your muffler bearing.

 

[wiltw]

Don't forget to grease your muffler bearing.

Isn't that a lifetime lubricant, too?!

 

[mshchem]

There was a fellow who called on me years ago, salesman for a huge company. He had a brief lapse of attention, grabbed the wrong bottle, and poured anti-freeze into his washer fluid tank.
Prestone brand, selling both anti-freeze and a premium brand of washer fluid, same size bottle easy to see the confusion. It was a big ol' Ford Crown Victoria company car, no permanent damage.

I had a 1961 MGA the washers were a mechanical pump on the dash. If you pushed it too hard the fluid would squirt over the car.

 

[BAC1967]

There was a fellow who called on me years ago, salesman for a huge company. He had a brief lapse of attention, grabbed the wrong bottle, and poured anti-freeze into his washer fluid tank.
Prestone brand, selling both anti-freeze and a premium brand of washer fluid, same size bottle easy to see the confusion. It was a big ol' Ford Crown Victoria company car, no permanent damage.

I had a 1961 MGA the washers were a mechanical pump on the dash. If you pushed it too hard the fluid would squirt over the car.

My 71 Plymouth Duster had a rubber bulb on the floor that you stepped on to squirt the washer fluid. I remember on most cars you could aim the nozzle to squirt over the car.

 

[Donald Qualls]

First car my parents had that sported a windshield washer (a 1968 Opel Kadet wagon) had the foot-pump, over-the-car washers. By '73, though (the year of the one they drove for years and then my brother wound up with during college) they had an electric pump with controlled pressure and flow rate.

 

[Helios 1984]

Next people are going to extract coffee from Caffenol ;-)

Dear lord *dropping my mug

 

[btaylor]

Don't forget to grease your muffler bearing.

... and adjust the bell housing clapper while you’re down there.

 

[Sirius Glass]

.. and the flux capacitor.

 

[cmacd123]

I'd hope you're in a tropical climate. In my area some kind of anti-freezing agent is an absolute hard requirement until at least May

at 45 degrees north latitude, we don't dare to use anything other than window washer antifreeze year round.