make sure you buy the original formula, still works great use on all my cars, wipers or not, but then again i also buy bottled water sometimes so your mileage may vary...
Call me lazy but I use the washer fluid in my daily drivers. You add about 3oz to regular washer fluid, it works great. I also use the regular on my hot rods.
For YEARS I thought that Rain-X was some hokey overpriced snake oil that wouldn't work until my dad got a job at a corporate aviation hangar. Once when I was there visiting in the middle of winter, he convinced me to let him treat half of my windshield with something called "Aquapel" that they used on the jets & helicopters. We followed the directions and cleaned the hell out of the glass and put the stuff on (half of) the windsheild. It rained & snowed on the way back to Virginia, and after repeatedly comparing the treated & untreated sides of the windshield on the way home I was SOLD. I use it all the time on my daily drivers, and especially on the Bluesmobile since it doesn't have delay wipers, but it DOES have those annoying hidden wipers that need to "park" behind the hood when you turn them off. Rain-X keeps the windshield clean enough in a light rain that you don't need the wipers at all. Actually, I usually only use the wipers in traffic when there is a lot of fine mist in the air from the other cars & trucks. I also use Rain-X on my weekend cars too. My Road Runner has a 6 year old windshield in it but still looks a week old with NO wiper scratches on it because I use Rain-X to make the water bead off so that I don't have to use the wipers much, if ever.
I have been putting a new electric wiper system on my Vette for about 5 years now. No wipers, Rain-X, no problem and I drive her all the time. Clean windshield, put on right, can't beat it....
The wife brought home a gallon of the Rain X wiper fluid so we used it in our daily drivers and it worked. I have also used the regular Rain X on a late 60's Vette that I used to have and we all know the wipers never worked right on them to begin with. It had a stuck wiper door so no wipers but the Rain X worked fine the entire time I had it.
You're right. We use it here on our windshields so that the dust doesn't stick that the Zonies bring with them, when visiting California.
rain-X That was our dirty little secret to driving a hot street car in the winter. You could drive all night long without fogging up the wind sheild. lol! Every year I had to look around under the seats to find that little bottle. One night i went running to autozone just mins before they closed-it was closed!, knocked on the door and told them all I needed was rain x. The guy heard my car at roudy idle and said hold on went back inside and just gave one of them to me at the door just as he was locking it, said I know your car come back tomorrow and pay for it! lol!
Drove to Turkey Rod in the 57 Ranchero -- pouring rain, vac wipers off, 70 mph. GREAT visibility and water blows right off except the weird little circle of water at the top center of the windshield by the rear view. 57-59 Ford guys know what I'm talking about.... Rain-X is awesome, just have to remember to re-treat it when it's nice out !!!
In addition to getting the glass really clean, try to apply it to warm glass. Seems to help. I'm in Oregon, and have been using it since it came out. I put it on headlamps, too. It also keeps bugs from sticking so bad in summer. GM even had a service bulletin recomending Bon Ami powdered cleanser to get windshields perfectly clean. If raindrops on your windshield hypnotize you, you have no business driving a car. Now I know who has been stealing my wiper blades. Water comes in bottles?!
I've never used Rain-X but I did put some Rain-X blades ($20.00 ea) on my 03 Chevy pickup. They are the quietest blades I've ever used, even on a semi-dry windshield and they work excellent...BUT, it looks like there's a slight film on the glass when they're working.
I've been using Rainex for 20+ years. When I first used it a bunch of us got caught in a long rain storm. My buddy kept slowing down to 40 on the interstate, he was bitching about his wipers couldn't keep up. I told him to go faster, the faster I went the better it worked. Most all my buddies use it too. I'm talkin' hundreds of miles, we call it "watching the maggot races" Before Rainex rubbing a raw potato on a windshield was supposed to do the same thing. I have heard Aqua-Pel is fantastic also.
One benefit of Rain-x that I didn't notice anyone mentioning is that you'll rarely have to scrape any frost from your windows, if they are properly treated with Rain-X. I first tried the product on only the windshield of my old '68 GMC (which always sat outside). I noticed that the windshield would have little to no frost on it (cold winter mornings), but the other windows would be coated with frost. After that, I coated all the windows and exterior mirrors with the stuff. Excellent product, for sure.
Cut a potato in half length wise and rub it on the windshield-----part of the "secret ingredients " in Rain X . It works,too.
No wipers....up here in the great white north of Ontario, Canada, wipers are a must to mechanically certify a vehicle for public roads...it is illigal to drive a car without them....but I do use rain X also and it works great..up here they even sell it in the windshield washer fluide form, and it works just as good as the original!
Been using it for many years,in lots of cars with crappy wipers. I do my dodge at least once a month,it has vac wipers and not to much vac at idle.
I bought some years ago when we were out in the motor home and got caught in a downpour the wipers stopped working. First town with an autoparts store and I'm standing on some bailed hay applying the stuff. Owned that motorhome for about 5 years after that and never did repair the wipers. Now I have a bottle of rain X in every car and a roll of paper towels. The stuff is excellent. Frank
I have been using the Rain X glass cleaner on the 3W. It does the same thing as the original Rain X I used the old original Rain X on the 32 roadster ( BOTH sides of the windsheild ) but my parts guy suggested I try a bottle of the Rain X glass cleaner. I like it !
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