washer fluid nozzles are freezing

[exp500]

One thing I learned in frozen north- make sure to wash the dawn soap out of system before deep freeze. That tiny bit of soap for summer bug removal freezes even if using -25 blue.

 

[homesick]

I use the orange Rain X solvent year round. I am in the metro Detroit area. It works well.

I've never used orange, so you prompted me to do a quick check of Amazon. The orange Prestone 2in1 is cheaper and has substantially better review scores than the rain-x 2in1.

FWIW

joe

 

[2024 White Tahoe]

I just runs the washer fluid to flush out any moisture out of the nozzles that may have crept in from snowmelt or road wash or such

I’ve used Prestone’s windshield washer deicer for many years now (good to -34 degrees Fahrenheit) and have never had the nozzles freeze on me.

Good advice though.

 

[vcode]

all the stuff they sell here (on the shelf) is for +32deg, if you want the -20 orange/ -35 purple stuff you have to order it

The Menards by me has 450 gallons of the -35 stuff in stock...... LOL!

 

[OBSandaNNBS]

I use the orange Rain X solvent year round. I am in the metro Detroit area. It works well.

I used to until I saw the RainX -30 the other day. I think it's purple. Orange froze up on me last winter here in the "D"

 

[Doubeleive]

My last job closed the plant here, that was Con-Agra which if you are not familiar is major food/agriculture company.
when I went to the office to see what severance package they were offering I asked about working at a different location, they said North Dakota
f-that! ya'll can keep that cold weather, oddly enough I had already researched because shale oil was gearing up around then but I didn't want to be a human Popsicle
i.e. today's weather in Fargo

 

[TxRattler]

It was summer fluid. I had 3 full cases of winter fluid, but the only opened case had 4 winter and 2 summer. I have no clue how the summer got in there as I don't buy summer because I typically don't need wiper fluid during the summer months, possibly because I wash my car more than others. Anyway, the mystery is solved and I'm crossing my fingers that nothing cracked/fully froze. To be clear, I'm not saying the summer fluid was mixed in with the bulk boxes that I bought, maybe a friend/family member brought some over at some point throughout the year, who knows.

I pumped out the summer fluid and filled the housing with hot water. I also rinsed off the nozzles with hot water and poured hot water over the wiper fluid lines that I could see in the engine bay. After a minute or so, I was able to get the hot water to come out of the front nozzles, rear nozzle took a few more minutes. Then I ran the hot water through until the low wiper fluid light came on. Then I put the winter fluid in and ran it through until I saw blue color fluid coming out of all three nozzles.

Interesting, as I'm going thru this right now in New Hampshire. But I actually have a "cold weather" product. I'm thinking of installing a washer fluid heating system. It sucks.

 

[Jimmyy]

I never had an issue with the cheap blue stuff freezing until they came out with the premium stuff at 3x the price. Then all of a sudden the cheap blue stuff started freezing at -20°. The good old days of $.99 blue stuff that never froze have been long gone, along with my 72 Chevelle.