How many of you have had to pay a repair shop or oil change center to refill your windshield washer fluid? If you count yourself among the shamed, today is your chance to turn your life around. Or at least you can turn your automotive maintenance life around. When you pay a shop to replace your washer fluid, you're losing money. Even if they say they are doing it free, chances are you will be charged for the fluid itself, and usually at a rate as much as twice the retail price of washer fluid. Do yourself a favor and add your own washer fluid!
A clean windshield can be very important in terms of your safety. If you can't see, you can't drive! Or you shouldn't be driving. Luckily, there's no excuse for driving with a dirty windshield since your car came equipped with its own cleaning system. All you have to do is keep the bottle full and pull the little lever inside the car.
A clean windshield is important all year long, but as long as you use real windshield washer fluid (come on, it's cheaper than bottled water!) you have a built-in anti-icing system, too. Washer fluid doesn't freeze, so if you spray it onto your windshield when you have some freezing problems, it helps to break down the frozen layer.
It's a one-step deal. With your hood open and safely propped, look for the opaque white plastic bottle with the picture of the windshield and wipers on the cap, which is usually blue. Pop it open or unscrew it, and fill 'er up! You don't have to be scientific about it, putting too much in won't hurt anything. Done!
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Tue, November 22, 2011
by Matthew Wright, About.com
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