windshield washer fluid heater...

Just perused through Cabelas' latest auto/truck catalog, for $190, they offer the above.

Heck, I bought a birdbath water heater for the winter for under $20.

The idea intrigues me, the one they sell uses the oem reservoir. There's gotta be a cheaper way of doing it, while I brainstorm tonite, any other ideas would be cool...

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Here we just use the winter washer fluid mixture. It gets -40 here. At that temp you don't need washers anyway. You need washers up around freezing. In 35+ years of driving in the winter, I have never needed a washer fluid heater.

I think it would be sweet it shoot out boiling hot washer fluid. But most washer fluids remain liquid to -30 anyway, so its still good to go.

Don't know, maybe it's just me, but that really does not sound like a good idea. If you take cold glass and introduce real warm, or maybe even hot liquid to it, the glass has a tendency to crack at the spot of introduction. No thanks, I'll just keep my scraper and factory defroster and be happy that it works.

ren said:

Don't know, maybe it's just me, but that really does not sound like a good idea. If you take cold glass and introduce real warm, or maybe even hot liquid to it, the glass has a tendency to crack at the spot of introduction. No thanks, I'll just keep my scraper and factory defroster and be happy that it works.

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Yeah, tell me about it. In my eclipse, I actually just let the defroster go at it for like 30 minutes straight instead of clearing off the 1 of ice with 3 inches of snow on top... the window cracked all the way across. Just imagine what boiling water would do.

move to louisiana and your problem will be solved. i can usually get away with using water year round

I spent awhile reading reviews and independent opinions, unit got a couple of awards.

Not saying I'd spend the $$$, but they guarantee no windshield damage.

Found some industrial sources of 12 volt heating elements - maybe one mounted in reservoir? (unlike hotshots' method which intercepts the fluid and then heats it up on the way to the nozzles).

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