Thing I hate when driving

[Kyteland]

Yesterday on the way to work I got hosed by another car. The car in front of me turned their windshield sprayers on and managed to spray the cars on either side of them and me, and I was a fairly good distance behind them.

Why do some cars do this? It's not like the sprayers are high pressure power washers. Their only purpose is to get the windshield wet and the wipers do the rest. If more than half of your washer fluid ends up on the cars next to or behind you, then what is the point?

Edit: I just noticed this, but now that all the new war threads are being locked almost half of the threads here are about cars. :Q

 

[godmare]

Perhaps your answer lies in your signature?

 

[Kyteland]

Originally posted by: godmare
Perhaps your answer lies in your signature?

You'd think the manufacturers are smarter than that. That's the kind of mistake you make once, and then don't do again because it is dumb.

Perhaps I am just overesimating their intelligence?

 

[xirtam]

Originally posted by: Kyteland

Originally posted by: godmare
Perhaps your answer lies in your signature?

You'd think the manufacturers are smarter than that. That's the kind of mistake you make once, and then don't do again because it is dumb.

Perhaps I am just overesimating their intelligence?

Something ironic about that statement.

 

[Zenmervolt]

Originally posted by: Kyteland

Originally posted by: godmare
Perhaps your answer lies in your signature?

You'd think the manufacturers are smarter than that. That's the kind of mistake you make once, and then don't do again because it is dumb.

Perhaps I am just overesimating their intelligence?

Uh, you do realise that it's not the manufacturers who cause this, right? The nozzles can be aimed by the owner and are fairly easy to have get misaligned by road debris. I typically have to aim my washer jets once every year or so. Most people just don't realise that they can re-aim the nozzles if they get knocked out of alignment.

ZV

 

[Quixfire]

Originally posted by: Kyteland

Originally posted by: godmare
Perhaps your answer lies in your signature?

You'd think the manufacturers are smarter than that. That's the kind of mistake you make once, and then don't do again because it is dumb.

Perhaps I am just overesimating their intelligence?

Understand that traveling at highway speeds affects the washers' nozzle ability to direct the solution to the windshield.

 

[PricklyPete]

Originally posted by: Quixfire

Originally posted by: Kyteland

Originally posted by: godmare
Perhaps your answer lies in your signature?

You'd think the manufacturers are smarter than that. That's the kind of mistake you make once, and then don't do again because it is dumb.

Perhaps I am just overesimating their intelligence?

Understand that traveling at highway speeds affects the washers' nozzle ability to direct the solution to the windshield.

That would have been my guess...I really did not ever think you could realign the nozzles...but I will have to check on my car before I can say that that is true for every make.

 

[iamwiz82]

Originally posted by: PricklyPete

Originally posted by: Quixfire

Originally posted by: Kyteland

Originally posted by: godmare
Perhaps your answer lies in your signature?

You'd think the manufacturers are smarter than that. That's the kind of mistake you make once, and then don't do again because it is dumb.

Perhaps I am just overesimating their intelligence?

Understand that traveling at highway speeds affects the washers' nozzle ability to direct the solution to the windshield.

That would have been my guess...I really did not ever think you could realign the nozzles...but I will have to check on my car before I can say that that is true for every make.

my daily driver has 3 nozzles on each side, i aim the top one to go over my car in the event that some asshole is tailgating. It usually clears them pretty quickly

 

[Jzero]

The problem is that idiots use their washers while they are in motion. This thing called wind sends the fluid everywhere.

 

[Scootin159]

In high school I drove around an old Dodge Caravan with a rear wiper that didn't work. We took the rear washer & aimed it off to the direct right & would have fun sqirting people on the sidewalk as we drove by 🙂.

 

[Zenmervolt]

Originally posted by: Jzero
The problem is that idiots use their washers while they are in motion. This thing called wind sends the fluid everywhere.

Only if the jets are mis-aimed. It takes less than five minutes with a pipe-cleaner to aim the things, but it seems that very few people understand that they can be aimed. It's almost as bad as the number of people with mis-aimed headlights.

ZV

 

[WinkOsmosis]

My washer nozzles are perfectly aligned, but when I use them at 80mph, the liquid hits my windshield then keeps flowing over the roof of my car. I saw that the other day because they cut a path in the thick Houston pollen that was very noticeable on my car.

 

[Jzero]

Originally posted by: Zenmervolt

Originally posted by: Jzero
The problem is that idiots use their washers while they are in motion. This thing called wind sends the fluid everywhere.

Only if the jets are mis-aimed. It takes less than five minutes with a pipe-cleaner to aim the things, but it seems that very few people understand that they can be aimed. It's almost as bad as the number of people with mis-aimed headlights.

ZV

In all three of the cars I've owned, if you're moving the wind will carry the spray over the car and into the car behind you, and sometimes the cars in adjacent lanes if you're going fast enough.

I agree that when you are stopped, if your nozzles aren't screwed up, you shouldn't get anything but your windshield.

 

[deerslayer]

Originally posted by: Kyteland
Yesterday on the way to work I got hosed by another car. The car in front of me turned their windshield sprayers on and managed to spray the cars on either side of them and me, and I was a fairly good distance behind them.

Why do some cars do this? It's not like the sprayers are high pressure power washers. Their only purpose is to get the windshield wet and the wipers do the rest. If more than half of your washer fluid ends up on the cars next to or behind you, then what is the point?

Edit: I just noticed this, but now that all the new war threads are being locked almost half of the threads here are about cars. :Q

Free windshield washer for you 😉 Mine are on the windshield wiper arms, and it goes all over hell. Honestly, I had no idea you could aim them 😱

 

[RettaGuy]

Originally posted by: Scootin159
In high school I drove around an old Dodge Caravan with a rear wiper that didn't work. We took the rear washer & aimed it off to the direct right & would have fun sqirting people on the sidewalk as we drove by 🙂.

ah yes...the joys of re-alligning the squirters for other purposes...i never used them for anything else😉

 

[KokomoGST]

I've reaimed my rear windshield washer as a weapon against tailgaters as well... I hate it when someone's tailgating me as I drive through an area full of speed traps... dorks.

My regular front washers don't really mist, it's more a stream, so they work fine on the highway. Dunno if there's enough to flow over the car like in WinkOssy's case.

 

[spacelord]

I choose to wash my windshield when there is a tailgater behind me... preferably a freshly washed shiny car, or even better convertibles.
considering, when I get splashed by the guy in front of me I call it a car wash. since I wash my car maybe 6 times a year.

 

[toant103]

Originally posted by: Kyteland
Yesterday on the way to work I got hosed by another car. The car in front of me turned their windshield sprayers on and managed to spray the cars on either side of them and me, and I was a fairly good distance behind them.

Why do some cars do this? It's not like the sprayers are high pressure power washers. Their only purpose is to get the windshield wet and the wipers do the rest. If more than half of your washer fluid ends up on the cars next to or behind you, then what is the point?

Edit: I just noticed this, but now that all the new war threads are being locked almost half of the threads here are about cars. :Q

maybe it's an old car

 

[Zenmervolt]

Originally posted by: LyNx01

Originally posted by: Kyteland
Yesterday on the way to work I got hosed by another car. The car in front of me turned their windshield sprayers on and managed to spray the cars on either side of them and me, and I was a fairly good distance behind them.

Why do some cars do this? It's not like the sprayers are high pressure power washers. Their only purpose is to get the windshield wet and the wipers do the rest. If more than half of your washer fluid ends up on the cars next to or behind you, then what is the point?

Edit: I just noticed this, but now that all the new war threads are being locked almost half of the threads here are about cars. :Q

Free windshield washer for you 😉 Mine are on the windshield wiper arms, and it goes all over hell. Honestly, I had no idea you could aim them 😱

Oops. Forgot about those "on the wiper arm" GM specials. Those really can't be aimed. 😱 I've only used a car with that kind of nozzle once, but they worked fine for me.

As for the people who say that at 80 mph the fluid is going everywhere, that seems wrong. It might just be aerodynamic quirks of the cars I've owned, but the faster I go, the lower the spray hits on the windshield.

ZV