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California native here. What is this 'winter' you speak of? In all seriousness, it takes about a month or more worth of dust buildup before the view out of my
by fibonachos 10y ago
California native here. What is this 'winter' you speak of?
In all seriousness, it takes about a month or more worth of dust buildup before the view out of my windshield can be considered to have been obscured in any way. Thankfully it rarely gets to that point since I usually clean my windows when putting gas in my vehicle.
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- arethuza 10y agoI would say 20 minutes for car to become undrivable on a bad day in winter if no windscreen washers. I know this from bitter experience of letting my washers freeze up and having to stop and clean the windscreen with coffee every few minutes! Edit: The combination of low winter sun and heavily gritted and salted roads is probably the cause.
- Anasufovic 10y agoMy car has been screaming low washer fluid at me for months. Luckily I'm due for an oil change.
- beamatronic 10y agoNot only that, but the windshield washer fluid you can buy in the Bay Area is NOT the kind that doesn't freeze. Which could lead to a surprise if you head up to Tahoe for skiing. You can buy the anti-freeze kind up there, but you are supposed to "promise" not to use it back in the Bay Area.
- fibonachos 10y agoI actually discovered this by accident one morning a couple of years ago. We do get the occasional sub-freezing morning temperatures here during winter. One such morning I used my windshield washers and wound up with a nice, blinding sheet of ice on my windshield. I had to pull into a parking lot and scrape it off with a debit card. Rather dangerous situation for those of us who don't encounter real winter weather often.