We had our first snow of the day today, and temps remain in the low 20's. As I was driving during lunch, my wipers kept freezing. The snow was just light enough I had them on a slow cycle so they didn't spend much time on the warm glass. If I sped them up I get the dry-blade-on-dry-glass-chatter.
Subaru has this cool wiper wamer feature on their Legacy's, Forrester's and Outback's. I would have killed for it just now.
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Does running the heater through the defrost vents help with that?
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Does running the heater through the defrost vents help with that?
It keeps the glass warm, but since the wipers weren't moving over the glass much they still froze up. Actually I tried as you described and it had an odd side effect. The glass stayed pretty warm and the snow melted on the glass causing water build up. The wipers took off the water best they could and promptly iced up even more
Allowing the glass to stay cold was the best bet as most of the snow deflected away.
The nice thing with the Subie's is they have defroster like wires in the glass on the place where the wipers sit when not in use. It keeps them warm and soft in all conditions
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The Buick Lucerne has this feature too. It heats the washer fluid to 149F before it sprays it on to clear up any ice or snow.
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I had a Ford Mondeo Si 4x4 in the UK. It had a heated FRONT windshield. There were tiny heating elements in between the glass laminates, through out the whole windshield.
I haven't seen those on any US Ford model, though I have not checked the website.
That was a brilliant fetaure, it cleared frosted up windshields in no time.
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The nice thing with the Subie's is they have defroster like wires in the glass on the place where the wipers sit when not in use. It keeps them warm and soft in all conditions
So that's what those wires are for! I've seen those on several cars but never had a clue what their purpose was. I guess that's what I get for living where it never snows...
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Originally Posted by hawk2100n The Buick Lucerne has this feature too. It heats the washer fluid to 149F before it sprays it on to clear up any ice or snow.
I always liked the simplicity of the Mercedes system. It just runs engine coolant through a coil of pipe which is in the washer fluid reservoir. No extra heater to worry about, as long as the engine is warm you'll have heated washer fluid. I suppose the disadvantage is that you have to wait for the engine to warm up before it works...
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