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Old 30-01-19, 08:43 PM   #6961
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Icy weather don't fancy binning the svthou so getting serious motorcycle withdrawal
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Old 31-01-19, 07:48 AM   #6962
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Bloody cold on the bike this morning. When they say freezing fog they aren't ****ing about.


Quite interesting when the inside and outside of your visor simultaneously freeze up whilst travelling at 70 on an unlit duel carriageway with no tail lights visible through the soup.
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Old 31-01-19, 09:07 AM   #6963
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Bloody cold on the bike this morning. When they say freezing fog they aren't ****ing about.


Quite interesting when the inside and outside of your visor simultaneously freeze up whilst travelling at 70 on an unlit duel carriageway with no tail lights visible through the soup.
I once drove from Edinburgh to Felixstowe in freezing fog the whole journey, my washer jets froze up, even with neat washer fluid and by the time we got home there was an inch of ice on my wing mirrors. That was an interesting journey in the car, we considered stopping in hotel overnight it was that bad. I wouldn't have attempted it on the bike
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I once drove from Edinburgh to Felixstowe in freezing fog the whole journey, my washer jets froze up, even with neat washer fluid and by the time we got home there was an inch of ice on my wing mirrors. That was an interesting journey in the car, we considered stopping in hotel overnight it was that bad. I wouldn't have attempted it on the bike
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i have never understood why they dont wrap a heating wire round the washer jet hoses with a thermostatic switch.
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Old 31-01-19, 11:54 AM   #6965
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i have never understood why they dont wrap a heating wire round the washer jet hoses with a thermostatic switch.
I've got a 17 plate C-max and the windscreen washer froze up on that the other day. I had a quick look under the bonnet and found that there are electrical connections to the jets! I assume that they're heaters. My problem was further downstream nearer the tank. I just let it thaw by itself.

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Old 31-01-19, 03:30 PM   #6966
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I've got a 17 plate C-max and the windscreen washer froze up on that the other day. I had a quick look under the bonnet and found that there are electrical connections to the jets! I assume that they're heaters. My problem was further downstream nearer the tank. I just let it thaw by itself.

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They have my connect has got the same system. Mine was a case of the water freezing out of the mix. Dumped a load of near neat in this morning to fix it

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Old 31-01-19, 03:48 PM   #6967
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i have never understood why they dont wrap a heating wire round the washer jet hoses with a thermostatic switch.
Indeed, and that was my old Saab 900, so you'd have thought they'd have fitted some kind of heater, although it may had had something, and I never knew about it?

It was over 20 years ago & I wasn't as mechanically aware as I am now, although I only know a little bit more than I did then
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Old 31-01-19, 04:10 PM   #6968
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I use the Comma X-treme -26C in cars, don't even bother with anything less than -15 as it will freeze at just below zero. The methanol evaporates off and then it freezes.

You can add Methylated spirits to screenwash which does a good job.
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Old 31-01-19, 04:19 PM   #6969
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They do. I have heated washer nozzles on this car and previous one. Never had a problem with iced up washer jets with them.
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Funnily enough the jets were the one thing that wasn't frozen on my van this morning. Getting in the doors was the problem though. All frozen solid and the locks too. My friend used to work for Nissan and said this time of year they were constantly replacing door handles where people had pulled them off trying to open frozen doors.


I usually have to climb in through the back of my van and kick the doors open from the inside.


Had the heaters on full all day today and was still cold driving. Usually it gets too hot pretty quickly. It has nothing fancy at all, no turbo, manual windows etc, but the one things that's always been great on it is the heat you get out of the engine fairly fast after start up.
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