rev up your engines, today I'm gonna talk about the best windshield washer
squirter fluid in the world and why, and as usual I'm not sponsored by anyone
I just tried out a bunch of them over the years and found out which one works
the best, and I did learn the hard way, I used to be really cheap, yeah isn't that a
shocker and I'd buy the cheapest stuff you could, and put it in my wife's car
which at the time was an old Toyota, now I have to admit I'm old
school, on my own car I usually clean the windshields by hand, but my wife she
used to be a schoolteacher, she got up real early, all the dew and everything was
on her windshield in the morning and she'd you squirt her and she'd use that
stuff like mad, I mean she'd go through four, or five, six gallons of the stuff
every year, so being cheap I bought the cheapest stuff I could get it was like
89 cents a gallon, and here's what happened, the cheap stuff was so caustic
there ended up being a line in the paint and then up here on the hood where the
overspray was, there were other lines, it actually ate through the paint
granted it took years of using it and she went through gallons of the stuff every
year, but you don't want to use the cheapest stuff, because here's the cheapest
stuff this blue stuff, and look at the ingredients, they don't even really tell
you what's inside, they're kind of lying in the ingredients, just look at the
ingredients it says water plant based cleaning agents and dye, but then it says
warning this product contains a chemical known in the state of California to
cause cancer, now I assume they're talking about methanol, because most of
them have methanol in them, but really look at the ingredients, what a lie, it should
say methanol, not plant-based blah blah, I mean they're even hiding what's in the
thing they should at least be honest, because look at the rain-x that i found
to be the best one, it even said danger contains methyl alcohol cannot be made
non-poisonous, so even though it looks like orange Fanta you got to keep the
stuff away from the kids, you don't want them drinking the stuff, but the good
ones all contain methanol or methyl alcohol, that's what helped keep it from
freezing and it makes it a nice cleaner, and you want to get the stuff that says
all season, this one's good to zero degrees Fahrenheit
if you get one that isn't, it's gonna freeze in the winter, like this cheap
stuff, it says for use above 32 F it used to
say, protects to 32, which doesn't protect anything, that's the same freezing point
of water but at least they have a little bit more honest, but if you have this in
the winter and it gets cold, it'll freeze and then the stuff won't work at all so it's
better to use the all year one all the time so they don't have to think about
switching it out when it gets cold, and whatever you do don't try to make your
own to save money, a lot of guys use stuff with ammonia, well hey you're gonna
breath that stuff in and it isn't any good for you, because really your squirters
and right here, and what's in front of them, your air intakes, so you're gonna
breathe that stuff in, you'll notice when you do run your squirt you're gonna
smell the stuff, and that's one reason I like the rain-x, because really it smells
like a weak Windex, it doesn't have a horrible odor to it, now granted this
cheap stuff, it hardly smells like anything, because it hardly has anything at
all in it, it doesn't clean bugs good, it doesn't do hardly anything, and being a Rain-X
product it also helps it bead up on the windshield
so the wipers don't drag and make noises and stick, and since my wife is an
adamant washer user, using gallons of the stuff every year, I put different
kinds in her car didn't tell her what I did, and one day after putting the rain-x
in she said, oh did you change my wipers they clean better now in the
morning, and i said no i put this orange rain-x stuff and it was a little more
expensive, but i wanted to see if it worked better and she said well it
certainly does work better, and since you can't beat a blind experiment like that
she didn't even know what was going on, hey I'm sold on this stuff, but like anything
else, you want a price around, I've seen this stuff advertised for over $11 a
gallon, but I bought mine for two dollars and 87 cents a gallon and a Walmart, and
that was actually cheaper than this cheap stuff that I bought at a local
auto parts store, this was over $3 a gallon, so in my case I was really happy
because I got the best washer fluid and I paid less for it, and since this is
mechanic Monday, I'm giving away some of this stuff, to have a chance to win just
place a clean non offensive comment on the YouTube comments below, and the
winner will be chosen random my computer to have nice clean
windshields, so if you never want to miss another one of my new car repair videos,
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