IS300H questions from a new owner

[DanD]

11 hours ago, Hadrian said:

OK

I've obviously been doing it wrong for the last 50yrs   😊

 

No. You've just been lucky! 😁

Seriously though... each to his own. I can only speak from my own experience.

[Thackeray]

7 hours ago, DanD said:

19 hours ago, Hadrian said:

OK

I've obviously been doing it wrong for the last 50yrs   😊

 

No. You've just been lucky! 😁

Definitely!

I stopped using plain water in my student days after getting stuck in a snowstorm on Dartmoor. The car - an original Mini - kept going. But I could't see anything because the screenwash had frozen. Using the wipers without screenwash just smeared more and more dirt across the screen. 

I can also vouch for the fact that pouring hot coffee from your thermos into the screenwash bottle doesn't solve the problem. Once the water has frozen in the nozzles and tubes even hot coffee won't penetrate far enough to melt it. I can't remember the solution to the problem. I think we just had to wait for a while until the snow stopped falling and we could get on our way without using the wipers.

Ever since, I've used some sort of anti-freeze screenwash, using only a little in the summer and increasing the concentration as the winter arrives.

[200h]

when you buy screen wash read the dilution info to make sure you have the correct concentration

for the temperatures you are facing , i normally use 50 / 50 in winter i use the prestone from costco