![]() When you shop for your next bottle of the blue stuff, take one second and be sure the rating matches your local weather. That's the range you need in winter weather. We thought we would share what a proper bottle should look like. This fluid was purchased mid-January in the dead of dark winter. You can see the bottle in the image above. Upon close inspection, we found that it was not rated for below freezing. When we went for the bottle the next time it was a container of slush. We inadvertently purchased some and used it. Somehow, in a region that has been fighting winter driving challenges successfully for over a century, some numbskull purchasing agent at a local large supermarket chain managed to source some window washer fluid that freezes up at 32F. Ours was recently reluctant to spray, so we investigated and found the problem was not the car, but the fluid. The most practical way to clean your glass short of a full car wash is to spray a liberal amount of the blue stuff out your washer nozzles every few miles from November to May. ![]() Windex and other windshield cleaners don't work well because the salt and sodium smear, rather than lift off the glass. All that road salt makes keeping one's windshield clear tricky. Here in the snowbelt of Massachusetts, we can get as many as ten feet of snow per year and we like to salt our cars until there is nothing left of them but the seat frames. One of Torque News' many remote offices is in Metro Boston. The problem is, some of the windshield washer fluid for sale in your area may fail to work, or worse, may harm your vehicle. Just grab a couple of bottles of the blue stuff off the display at the supermarket or hardware store and move on. Purchasing windshield washer fluid should be a no-brainer.
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