Headlight Washer - Page 2

Nov 30, 2008 | 06:38 PM

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Originally Posted by rotarygreg

black tape? im sorry, but i stopped applying tape to cover up lights on my dash when i stopped driving suzuki swifts. Like i said, ive seen some nightmares that had to do with TPMS. I would rather have neither (washers or tpms) but because its like one or the other (american car or canadian car) im glad i have the washers. if any part of it stops functioning, i likely wont notice, and if i do, wont care.

and marc, its not about keeping your car clean, sometimes on a long drive in really shitty winter weather your car can get so dirty, you dont want to stop and wash the car twice before you get to your destination.

those are shots of my old lancer after a 50km drive last winter on a perticularily bad day. The car was washed the day before.

Greg

If this was Andrew's car, I can see him freaking the **** out.

Nov 30, 2008 | 07:18 PM

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LOL, not with snow.

He posted a pic last year, where his 8 was packed with snow.

Dec 1, 2008 | 08:51 AM

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Originally Posted by climacus

I actually underfill my washer tank on purpose in the summer to prevent the headlight washer from activating. Hell even in the winter I find it to be kind of useless. They don't seem to be very good at cleaning the salt build-up off the plastic lenses.

Why not just pull the fuse for the headlight washers? I did that within an hour of taking delivery of my car over 5 years ago and I haven't had to worry about the stupid things since. All they do is spray a ton of fluid all over the front of my clean car.

Dec 1, 2008 | 09:38 AM

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Agree
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Dec 1, 2008 | 09:59 AM

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I don't know what the other guys with the Speed bumper did, but I took off the nozzle, stuck a big bolt into the tube to plug it and then hose clamped it.

Dec 1, 2008 | 10:05 AM

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I don't know what the other guys with the Speed bumper did, but I took off the nozzle, stuck a big bolt into the tube to plug it and then hose clamped it.

same here

Dec 1, 2008 | 03:25 PM

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Agree
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I would have to disagree. Not that I like having water all over my clean car either, but in most cases if you're activating your windshield spray, then chances are your car was wet/dirty to begin with anyways.

Dec 1, 2008 | 03:35 PM

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Disagree

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Dec 1, 2008 | 04:04 PM

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You've never taken a bug-hit in the middle of the windshield of your otherwise clean car?

Dec 1, 2008 | 07:31 PM

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Originally Posted by prospectjtaz

If your 8 is CDN it does, I think their stupid. They should have been made flush mounted to the bumper like beamers do it. Not sticking out. Plus once you go new bumper, they become obsolete, no way in hell are your gonna start cutting into your new mspeed bumper or other bumper just so you can maintain the washers.

useless, they should have given us all the TPMS sensors.

Jay, you don't drive your car in the winter so I can see that reasoning, but when you drive your car all winter and do over 100KM a day on the 400 series highways your headlights dirty the **** up in a hurry!

These things have been a godsend to me already.

Dec 1, 2008 | 07:58 PM

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Thief, you are absolutely correct!!! I was gasping already when I saw that pic! I refuse to let Natalia become as dirty as a **** that white Lancer was

Anyhow, Jay was right too, I did post a pic from last year when my car was COMPLETELY COVERED in ice/snow. If this year is as bad as next year, I'll post up some Dirty Natalia pics.

FYI, with the weather as it is now, I've been on my winter-wash cycle, which is only like once every 2 - 3 weeks. It's impossible to wash these days when the day after it's going to rain/snow.

Dec 1, 2008 | 08:02 PM

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Originally Posted by prospectjtaz

You dont need sensors in your winter tires, it gets into the whole, I NEED WINTER PERFORMANCE TIRES, cause I wanna drive past 160 KM/H. The tpms sensors are really desgined sturdy, barely do I see posts about them failing on the forum. Only thing I could ask for is a digital gauge readout of the psi, but thats just for novelty sake.

I have winter performance tires. They are spec'ed for 240kph. I don't drive anywhere near that, but what these tires can do is that, they provide "near" summer tire performance in the winter in those normal speed ranges 0 - 120kph in adverse conditions.

Winter performance tires aren't only differentiated by higher speed limits of the tire versus regular winter tires.

I just got to say this one last line hahahahha:

"Dunlop Wintersport M3's FTMFW!!!!