From: Larry Steckel <lorenzoscribe@hotmail.com>
>Prestone makes a windshield washer fluid like that. It doesn't freeze
>because it has a large dollop of propylene glycol
Not on the label of Prestone windshield wash I have.
>and ethylene glycol in it
>along with the usual methanol.
Yup, that's listed.
>Oh yea, and pink dye too.
This Prestone stuff is not pink. It is yellow, like Mountain Dew pop. I
tested it the other day on a cold windshield at speed in zero-degree
weather. It really works.
>Everyone screams about recycling antifreeze so it doesn't get into the
>environment and here is Prestone shooting the stuff onto windshields. Go
>figure.
I recycle antifreeze by putting it in the sanitary sewer, like it recommends
on the label. I agree that spraying ethylene glycol around may not be the
greatest idea ever. If we could get the highway and street folk to stop
dumping tons of sand and salt all over everything, maybe we wouldn't NEED to
wash our windshields so much when it is cold.
Phil Ethier Saint Paul Minnesota USA
1970 Lotus Europa, 1992 Saturn SL2, 1986 Suburban, 1962 Triumph TR4 CT2846L
LOON, MAC pethier@isd.net http://www.mnautox.com/
"It makes a nice noise when it goes faster"
- 4-year-old Adam, upon seeing a bitmap of Grandma Susie's TR4.
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