Heated Windshield

punmax · January 16, 2008

So today in the morning everything was frozen outside so I turned the heated windshield on. It only came out of one wiper not the other one. Is it supposed to do this?

pottercon · January 16, 2008

So today in the morning everything was frozen outside so I turned the heated windshield on. It only came out of one wiper not the other one. Is it supposed to do this?

it should come out both

Bish · January 16, 2008

So today in the morning everything was frozen outside so I turned the heated windshield on. It only came out of one wiper not the other one. Is it supposed to do this?

it should come out both

Mine was frozen the first time I tried to use it. Both sides. Once it warmed up and I pushed some fluid through, it started working normally after that. I've also had cheap blue fluid freeze on me before.

alaska511 · January 20, 2008

So today in the morning everything was frozen outside so I turned the heated windshield on. It only came out of one wiper not the other one. Is it supposed to do this?

it should come out both

Mine was frozen the first time I tried to use it. Both sides. Once it warmed up and I pushed some fluid through, it started working normally after that. I've also had cheap blue fluid freeze on me before.

Yes mine did that the first time too...the crap fluid from the dealer. At -15 it froze in the lines. Put it in the garage and warmed it up, they worked fine, kept topping up the reservoir with good stuff and dilluting the bad stuff. Just a theory I suppose, I kept thinking the hot fluid should have thawed any ice in the lines. They have worked great since.

rogerf · January 20, 2008

If parked in the cold, how long does it take to get hot fluid? Where is the fluid heated? In the reservoir or somewhere plumbed closer to the windshield? Then pushed through how many feet of hose to reach the sprayers? Does this system actually work?

Noticing the wiper system on the NBS doesn't handle snow & ice as efficiently as my '97. Wipers tend to skate overtop of snow rather than clearing it. My passenger washer stopped working the other morning. Not sure if it froze while on the expressway or simply became blocked by ice build-up. Snow tends to pack along the cowl & freeze, think the build-up is blocking the RH washer. Already had to stop & clean out along the base of the windshield a couple of times.

silveradocoa · January 20, 2008

on the h2's theres a rectangular black box near the resovoir that heats the fluid as it passes thru...but the tank is in a diff place on the hummers. dosent take long

Zembonez · January 20, 2008

Man... you guys are making me LOVE South Texas even more. How do you stand living in the cold?

Hell, here if the ice freezes in the refrigerator, we stay home!

punmax · January 20, 2008

It sucks living in the cold. They throw salt on the roads every single god d**n day. My truck is starting to get rust spots on the body :/

ws6_guy · January 20, 2008

yeah the cold does suck, gotta be tough to survive it though. only fun thing about it is snowboarding, and keeping girls warm hahaha

alaska511 · January 20, 2008

If parked in the cold, how long does it take to get hot fluid? Where is the fluid heated? In the reservoir or somewhere plumbed closer to the windshield? Then pushed through how many feet of hose to reach the sprayers? Does this system actually work?

Noticing the wiper system on the NBS doesn't handle snow & ice as efficiently as my '97. Wipers tend to skate overtop of snow rather than clearing it. My passenger washer stopped working the other morning. Not sure if it froze while on the expressway or simply became blocked by ice build-up. Snow tends to pack along the cowl & freeze, think the build-up is blocking the RH washer. Already had to stop & clean out along the base of the windshield a couple of times.

I have got about 200 miles on mine, so I havent had a chance to really look deep at how all this crap works. I too have noticed the wipers struggle with ice and snow more than my many previous GMC/Chevy trucks, however the heated fluid option (other than the first day I mentioned) has worked great at removing the build up on the first cycle, i turn it off after the first cycle of heated fluid.

OUMike · January 20, 2008

Man... you guys are making me LOVE South Texas even more. How do you stand living in the cold?

Hell, here if the ice freezes in the refrigerator, we stay home!

haha yea man, I was just complaining the other day about how cold it has been here in Houston. We been seeing in the 50s and mid 40s on occasion, but doens't last long usually.

Jaredkm · January 21, 2008

It sucks living in the cold. They throw salt on the roads every single god d**n day. My truck is starting to get rust spots on the body :/

punmax, whre in BC do you live? I think I remember you saying the Vancouver area. What is "cold" for you? Move about 12 hours northwest to where I am, and then we can talk about snow and cold!

( I didnt need that puke one, but it looks so funny!)

Oh and your truck should not be rusting yet at all. There is a ton of salt on the roads here too, and no rust spots on mine at all. Same with my last new vehicle which was 3 years old when I sold it.

punmax · January 21, 2008

On the side, one of the molding has rust spots on it. Also I live in Abbotsford, which is about 1-2 hours away from Vancouver. I tried the heated windshield washer today and the other side started working. Think the fluid froze.