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To: SamAdams76

The Safelite Auto Glass people are gonna love that windshield.


23 posted on 03/03/2014 1:25:34 PM PST by Charles Martel (Endeavor to persevere...)
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To: Charles Martel

I'd hate to have need be washing THAT window. Do you have any idea how much time drivers have to spend, just washing the windshields? It's a PITA, everyday, for over-the-road long haul drivers.

If there might be rain ahead, wash the windows first. Get those bugs off (Spring-Summer-Fall) and the grime too, before getting under the rain. But if not --- whatever you do when the rain starts, particularly if it's only light to moderate -- DO NOT turn on the wipers until the stuff on the windshield is well hydrated.

Like I used to teach trainees, do not look at the water on the windshield, look through it and past it as long as you can stand it.

If the windshield wasn't reasonably clean (like--only a few hours or half a day of driving since last washed) then turning on the wipers, even with decent blades and washer fluid, can be regrettable.

Looking through a dripping wet windshield is clarity itself, compared to trying to see through smeared bugs and gunk.

31 posted on 03/03/2014 1:54:02 PM PST by BlueDragon (Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he.Proverbs 29:18)
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To: Charles Martel
The Safelite Auto Glass people are gonna love that windshield.

The whole thing looks like a bird/bambi/rock magnet to me...

46 posted on 03/03/2014 3:40:12 PM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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