Anyone know a green & natural substitute for the washer fluid in your car?

[beac]

The blue stuff really creeps me out and it's one of the few places where I haven't been able to "go green" yet.

[comipinko]

1. 1 Part white vinegar, 4 parts water.

If yopu need "anti freeze" then just use the blue stuff, it's just ethanol and water.

[beac]

3. Of course, white vinegar! I'm using it all over the house already.

I think others must be too b/c the price keeps going up, up, up.

[dmr]

11. I put a watered down vinegar in my car

way back in the 80s when I lived in Miami. Each time I cleaned my windows it smelled like a horrible tossed salad.

The vinegar smell lingers in hot weather. Sitting in traffic was not fun.

My mom used vinegar to clean, so I thought I was being smart & economical. I guess it depends on what your definition of what smart is.


It was so embarrassing that I paid my little nephew to sit in my car & push that little button until the tank drained out.

[beac]

12. LOL.

I'm picturing your nephew carrying out his mission while the neighbor's think "What a naughty little boy!" or maybe "Suddenly, I'm craving a salad..."


It's looking like I'm stuck with the icky blue stuff for now. Apparently a green fluid exists, but it's only sold in Canada at the moment.

[msedano]

2. add ammonia, too

also, you can wad up old newspaper and use these as wipes on glass. works wonders.

mvs

[grasswire]

6. that could function as a flask at the drive-in movie, too! n/t

[beac]

8. "Excuse me, ma'am, have you been drinking?"

"No, but my car is on its third martini."

Wouldn't little olives stuck on the ends of the wipers be cute?

[beac]

10. We live on a gravel road...

Is it still a martini if it's "on the rocks"?

[Curmudgeoness]

13. This and all the comments have me thinking that I stumbled into the Lounge.

You guys are hilarious. Although I do think that you have a point.

[CottonBear]

14. Someone once called into Car Talk with this exact question.

You've got to use the blue stuff in freezing weather.

[Denninmi]

15. From May to September, I just use water with a little Dawn in it.

A teaspoon of Dawn per gallon of water.

Of course, as mentioned above, that is OUT for the remainder of the year here, then I have to go back to the methanol stuff.

[beac]

16. I like the idea of half a year off the "blue"*--

thanks for the tip! :hi"


* with our weather, I think I could start in April and switch back in early October.

[nichole09]

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