Rear Heated Windscreen

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Two or three minutes.

Yes, generally the whole screen will need replacing 'cos the terminals are a buger to reattach. Certainly that's what a garage would say.

Some of us more enterprising souls might try to reattach them.

Depends on how much is left of the old terminals on the windscreen side.

Nope. You may need to crimp on a new spade connector.

Feckin excellent. From misted up to clear to drive in about 30 seconds. Frozen solid iced up windscreen to being able to sweep it away with the wipers in about a minute. If there's snow on, wipe that off first. It is THE ONE THING I miss about my Mondeo Ghia.

Seconded- even though my Focus lives in a garage 99% of the time, on the occasional 1% its been out and is iced up or covered in snow, whatever, you can drive away within 1min 30seconds.

Tim..

I agree the Ford heated windscreens work well, but am I the only one who is bothered by the fine wires in the glass? I keep finding my eyes focusing on them when driving.

How long have you had one? I found mine a bit distracting for the first couple of weeks, but after that never notice it.

Chris

That's probably the reason - I only drive Fords at erratic intervals when I have one as a hire car. Do Ford have a patent on heated windscreens or something? And would it not be possible to have the conductors transparent?

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Yes.

The connections have come off the heating element on my pug 205 GTi. Halfrauds and the like said it wasn't repairable and I'll have to replace the whole rear windscreen but my local car shop bloke said he normally stocks a special glue that does the job. He hasnt got any in at the mo but he's ordering it and should have some by Friday so I'll let you know how well it works. It's basically a very sticky glue with pure silver in it but consequently it's 12 quid for a tiny little pot of the stuff!!

Gareth

This is my first posting within this group, I normally hang out at the Rover area but its a bit quiet there at the moment.

I had this with the rear mirror element of a Rover 214. The element connection had been knocked off, damaging the track. The cure was to recover the connctor and solder it to a piece of 10mm square copper PCB, then araldite the board and connector onto the spot where it was knocked off. Finally I used that special paint used for repairing heater tracks, got mine from Maplins, and built up several layers of silver to make a good firm electrical path, left it for a few days to set then connected the cable back onto its connector. Worked a treat, and was still going strong when the car was retired many years later.

Rdgs

PDH

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