Sure wish I had these on my last winter trip to Yellowstone. The washer fluid froze in the lines and since it was 17 below. I had to pay $75 and leave the car at a shop for it to warm enough to thaw. Then they added a lower temperature fluid.
This won't prevent fluid from freezing in the lines. It's basically a micro-sized tankless heater, that's activated when fluid is pushed through the lines. It then heats a small amount of fluid, that you spray when you run the washers again.
Heated washer nozzles are not the same thing. They merely heat the nozzle itself (really just to prevent snow from freezing over the nozzle).
Finally a solution to all those unheated bidets we saw on sale last year, though people are probably going to think I'm a bit kinky when they see the car battery sitting next to the toilet.
Kidding aside I can see an application for this in being able to melt a sheet of ice off a windshield faster, although if the ice is that bad you may also find it difficult to even get the vehicle door open to get inside and use it.
if you're really worried about your washer fluid freezing in your tank/lines, put a little cheap vodka in your washer fluid. it wont hurt anything and it's environmentally friendly; alc content should help defrost your windshield too
^ Drink the vodka and get a container of "Drygas", methyl alcohol from an auto parts store meant to absorb water from a fuel tank. You don't need a whole ~pint container full for a gallon of existing washer fluid, more like 1/3 to 1/2 of one (depending on how cold it gets to be).
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Heated washer nozzles are not the same thing. They merely heat the nozzle itself (really just to prevent snow from freezing over the nozzle).
Kidding aside I can see an application for this in being able to melt a sheet of ice off a windshield faster, although if the ice is that bad you may also find it difficult to even get the vehicle door open to get inside and use it.
Thank you!