Rain Repel - For Extreme Weather

Damn.....you came THIS close.........

Unfortunately, I have a lexAn widnshield........

Ignorant SPAMMER!!!!!!!!!!

Can't see through the beads of water. That's why I use wipers.

There is a sucker born every minute.

Although it very well may be that a sucker is born every minute, I say the Rain-X is a great chemical to use. Much easier to see under downpour conditions, less wear on the wipers, and visibility is greatly increased in rain and snow conditions. Oh yea, and you can buy it in gallon jugs of premixed solution to put directly into your washer reservoir.

The downside is at night in inclement weather under street lamps. When the light beam is 90º to the windshield you may experience a glare caused by the single beads of water/snow.

...Ron

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Personally, I just keep my wipers in excellent condition, no beads, no droplets, just clear windshield.

Oh, and no silicone smears if I do use my wipers.

Budd

Budd

Personally, I just keep my wipers in excellent condition, no beads, no droplets, just clear windshield.

Oh, and no silicone smears if I do use my wipers.

Budd

I've used Rain-x for years and I think the stuff is great. Put it on when the temps are above approx 60 degrees, walk away from it for at least a couple of hours and then wipe it off with a micro fibre towel. I don't notice the glare the other poster is talking about and it's much easier to see thru when it's raining.

Denny

Yup, agree wabbit! Rain-X is the best thing since heated leather seats!

Mike

Mike, use the low heat setting for awhile, your brain is getting overheated....

Denny

I've tried it several times and always got a kinda of "foggy" trail behind the wiper blades if I had to use them ( 30 mph doesn't blow the water off like 140 does) or they just plain smear and don't wipe well. Yes, I followed the instructions on the bottle, instead of waiting like you did.

And it hard to remove once it's on.

Budd (stick>

I agree 100%. Although I got lazy and started to use the Rain-X windshield wiper fluid and don't have to do the application any longer. Only downside is rain will not bead up quite the same as the direct application. When I'm not lazy, I actually do both as the wiper fluid helps maintain the direct application longer.

I use winter wipers all year long. Works for me.

Roy

Hey Rabbit!!! Your email working or what?? Sent you a few and responded to your last and nothing back. Noticed it around 12/25.

Roy

I've been getting all the usual spam and Viagra garbage on a regular basis. I'll send ya something in a little bit.

Denny

I had a '95 Chevy van for a work truck a few years ago. The wipers on it were worthless at highway speeds. The wind would actually lift the wiper right off the windshield. I drove out to a customer one evening, fifty miles, in heavy rain. I could hardly see the wipers were so poor. Before the trip back I stopped and applied RainX to the windshield. On the way back, in similar rain I did not even use the wipers! The water would bead up and fly right up and off the windshield. I do not use RainX all the time, but it sure worked well with the crappy wipers on that Chevy van, Greg

Mike Simmons wrote in article ...

I think the value of Rain-X comes right to the front when you pull out into the rooster tail of a semi to pass it on the Interstate......

......the forward vision while riding in the rooster tail is almost not to be believed.

Since I travel the Interstate frequently, that reason alone is sufficient for me to use Rain-X on a regular basis.

Per *:

How do you apply it so the wipers don't leave a haze?

Or . . .

ya could do like I was taught and NOT FOLLOW SO DARN CLOSE.

The 2 second following rule applies in clear, dry weather, in rain add 2-3+ seconds and snow add about a minute, but YMMV.

Budd ( Who hasn't had an accident attributable to himself in a quarter century . . . well, no accidents in a quarter century)

With a BFH!

Roy

Yup none that he can remember. That will take us back to last week.

Roy

Per "Budd Cochran" :

How much success do you have with observing 2 seconds in urban freeway/turnpike traffic?

I seem to wind up with less than a second most of the time as people pass me and pull into the space ahead - so sometimes I'll find something like a bus or