welcome back to steve rob reviews today i'm going to review the reasons why you should never use
regular tap water in your windshield washer reservoir a lot of people yes they actually take
the garden hose and they fill up their windshield washer reservoir full of water not windshield
washer fluid for all of you that have watched my channel for a long time you know that i did work
on the assembly line at general motors for 30 years and i will tell you something that everybody
who works at general motors ford Chrysler doesn't matter which automobile company it is
no manufacturer puts tap water in the vehicles going down the assembly line they put windshield
washer fluid not water so what's the reasons why you should never use water in your
windshield washer fluid dispenser and to clean your windshield well first of all
yes there's going to be people that will say i've used tap water for 50
years never had a problem blah blah blah okay you're not paying for the people that
don't have the same experience and what happens well a lot of times you get
well if you have hard water especially hard water you get lime you get the scale build up and
you know what the effects are of hard water and that will actually contribute
to well yes your windshield washer pump and your lines all getting clogged up and having problems
so what should you be using you should be using windshield washer fluid not tap water
and for a lot of people who live in say hot climates well if you go through your windshield
washer fluid a lot like like a real lot like say you're using a tank of fluid in your vehicle
every week you could probably get away with it no problem but if you're only spraying water
on your windshield you're not really getting much effect are you and most of the time your
wipers will chatter as they go you know in the cycle to clean your windshield so what i do is
i would say if you're going to use tap water because you just refuse to
buy the windshield washer fluid stuff you can put a couple of drops of
ordinary dish soap in there at least it provides a little bit of cleaning solution
and you know it may stop the bacteria and the buildup of the alignment scale
but to tell you the truth if you talk to a lot of auto mechanics you'll find out that
years ago the way the pumps were built yeah it's one thing to say you get away with it
for the last 50 years but on a new vehicle today if you have to replace that windshield
washer pump and you get a garage to do it it's going to cost you more than all the windshield
washer fluid you could have ever bought for that vehicle for its life so when it comes down to it
buy windshield washer fluid you know it may seem like a simple concept to just you know suggest to
everybody that you know the concept is to use the recommended fluid for the vehicle and uh so i mean
if you're in if you're in countries like i'm up in canada where it gets cold i see it quite often yes
i have neighbors they just get their garden hose there and they just fill it up you know during
the summer time and then it comes to the fall and yeah there's still some left in the bottom or they
forget about it their lines all freeze they bust their pump and for what to save yourself maybe
two bucks you know because i run and in these two jugs here i run winter washer fluid year round
and what i do is i just put like a couple of uh squirts of uh um you know just detergent in
there this is a three gallon containers both of them are filled so i just transferred into these
and you can see i just got like a nice little uh attachment here on the end and if you want to know
how to build these i'll put a link down below but today's video is all about what i see so often is
people just using water and if you have a cold climate well you're freezing all your lines in
the fall or if you've got half a bottle left and you start putting in the uh the winter antifreeze
or the winter windshield washer fluid that stays good down to minus 30 or minus 45
well now it's diluted and how good is it going to work now and once you freeze all your lines in
there you've got to wait for a day for everything to fall out and it might take a couple of days and
now what do you do now you got to get that stuff out of there and run the good stuff all the way
through it so i mean for the hassle don't put you know your regular tap water in there especially if
you're on a well you know because you're going to end up with a science experiment inside your
inside your jug you know after maybe six months or a year like a lot of people don't use a lot of
windshield washer fluid right so i mean if you're not using a lot why not just put windshield washer
fluid in rather than just putting in water and call it windshield washer fluid because
there's a huge difference and so today's video would be to recommend to everybody to think about
what you're putting inside your windshield washer bottle and one thing that i've seen
you know some people uh do as well is put these you can go to the store and you can buy some of
these pills look like a pill like a big pill you drop them in there to uh you know and it's like
some kind of a soap solution or some kind of a you know thing that they sell to put in your reservoir
and uh some people are putting like rain x in there and uh you know all kinds of different
contraptions of uh liquids and that kind of stuff and if you read your owner's manual you know they
pretty much just tell you in plain english put windshield washer fluid in your windshield washer
bottle and that's pretty well today's video and leave me a comment below let me know if you think
that using water over the years is a good idea well if you're from a northern climate like
canada or you know northern places where it does freeze well you've never had good success using
plain tap water in your in your windshield washer bottle have you and so many people forget comes
to the fall they forget they only got tap water in there first cold day nothing works going down
the highway nothing works there's a huge safety problem there right for a couple of bucks you know
for me you can get the all season washer fluid that has the detergent in it or you can just get
the winter washer fluid and i recommend you use either one of them because you know when you're
going down the highway and your wipers don't work well that could be a pretty expensive lesson on
what could happen so thanks for joining me here today if you haven't seen this channel
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