Note To Self

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I recently stopped to get some wiper fluid to top off an almost empty tank. An ice storm was coming, so the guy asks if I want the "anti ice" or "regular" stuff. I say "regular", having never used the other. Every one of them starts telling me how much better the Rain-x anti-ice fluid is in cold weather. I ask "does it leave stuff on the windshield, like the old rain-x does?". Nope, they insist. So, I bought it and poured it in. Within a few days my windshield is getting that "speckled water" thing going that looks like someone rubbed silicone all over it. My memory of how much I dislike rain-x comes back. I emptied the entire reservoir and put in some normal (cheap) stuff, but I'm still dealing with the rain-x effect. I'm sure some of you like it, but I just can't stand having that wax-like crap on the glass. I'll probably have to buff it off with polishing compound

 

Just had to vent...

[MS3DALE]

Ha! I feel the same way about Rain-X,I used it on my first truck back in '89...never again for me!

[dlstewart01]

I only used rain x once. It leaves a film on the windshield. never again.

[jro909]

don;t ever use the window cleaner/rain shield wipes...they leave like a chemical looking blurry film on the glass

[kdrchuck]

I did the same thing years ago and swore off it. I hate it too.

[gnet158]

Back in the day, before I was fortunate enough to own a truck I used their Anti Fog on my inside windows of my car. Worked very well.

[mhenshaw]

I guess I'm weird I like the rub on rain-x. It does leave alittle film on the side but it does not bother me

[Metro12]

Rain-x is cool........if you never use your wipers!

[desrtrat]

i have been using it for years and no issues..

[Mazer18]

I can't comment on the wiper fluid but I do love the yellow bottle, rub-on stuff. So cool to be driving down the interstate in a downpour with all of the other cars around you blasting their wipers at full throttle and the rain just runs off your windshield like melted butter.

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Just to clarify, this post was really more of a heads up that the washer fluid has the same stuff in it. The label probably says as such, but I was in a hurry and just took the word of the folks (all three of them that evening) working at the A-Zone. Silly (stupid) me...

 

I know a lot of folks like this stuff, but I'm not one of em.

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My windshield wiper blades are made of silicone and leave the same effect on my windshield.....but only where the wipers travel. I kinda like it myself.

[brainpause]

I have been using it for years love the stuff.

 

Larry

[Minarets]

im a big fan of rain-x and just started using the winter and bug rain-z for my wiper fluid. im still a fan.

[GPGuy]

Guess this means you don't use their new wipers?

 

I actually really like the Rain-X deicer formula. It's one of the few that I can actually use in cold weather that doesn't freeze to my windshield. To each his own though.