Windscreen scum

50/50 water meths mix on a cloth or even neat if you have enough. Put about 10% in screen wash bottle with a squirt of washing up liquid.

thanks mark

it is really bad at night in light rain - oncoming lights can't see a thing.

will try your tip in morning

Vinegar might help remove some of the crud, but also, how are the wiper blades ? (cracked / hard / split blades can do a crap job of clearing the screen too)

Do you wash the screen using wash/wax? Or use the wax cycle in a carwash? It can be difficult to remove. You need an abrasive really - Windowlene or even toothpaste.

DON'T put washing up liquid in! It just comes out smeary and minging. Put proper sceen wash and water in. As much/little as you like at this time of year when it's not freezing. I just add "A good splosh" of screenwash to each jug I poor in (I use a 1 litre jug to fill mine).

Thus spake ncs ( snipped-for-privacy@hotmail.co.uk) unto the assembled multitudes:

Stop them jumping on your car! :-)

Thus spake DanB ( snipped-for-privacy@googlemail.com) unto the assembled multitudes:

Washing-up liquid isn't too good for your paintwork either.

A friend of mine swears by using wet newspaper to clean windows.

I recently bought an E-Cloth - expensive (perhaps that's what the E stands for :-) but lasts a long time and does the job very nicely, and needs only water. Available in Tesco and others, and online, but you pay through the nose for the latter.

Urban myth dating from when carbon inks were used rather than the current types. Now any similar paper would do as well - but won't remove some smears.

Screenwash won't remove wax from glass.

Neither is screenwash. The concentrate one on my BMW started leaking and removed the paint below it...

The best stuff ever made for smeary windscreens was Holts Mixra, the name of which changed later to Screenies. A small squirt on the windscreen and let the wipers clean the screen. Absolutely magical, but I've not seen it around for years.

This is the stuff........ I found some on-line at

Have you tried shouting "Get back to Liverpool, you thieving bastard"?

Ian

Halfords "intensive" glass cleaner.

If it's really bad use a hammer and claim for a new screen off insurance for about 50 notes without affecting NCB.

Well how come it works perfectly for me. Clean as a whistle. Not smear while washing, wiping or when dried.

Rubbish! I've heard this old wives tale for decades and it was probably circulated by shampoo and wax manufacturers.

Yeah, it does give it a extra glaze but we are talking about serious grim here and not making the car look showroom clean. I could not give a stuff about how a car looks and a matt paint finish would suit me just fine. I've just never got all this crap about a shiny car beyond protecting the paintwork from the weather.

Its a cloth, is a cloth, is a cloth. There are countless products for the car market to entise money from pockets, but most of the time old rags and dusters are all that is needed.

Now that I like LOL :-)