It seems innocuous enough, but it is a potential calamity.

The other day, I bought a bottle of this stuff cause it was on sale. I didn't bother reading the ingredients. First off, the stuff is FLAMMABLE! It contains denatured alcohol as a solvent for the rainx stuff.

If you add that mixture to a HEATED washer fluid reservoir, you will notice as I did that a good bit of it disappears quite rapidly. I have deduced that the heating in the reservoir has basically boiled off all of the alcohol and left the rest behind.

I don't know what the effects of that crud in my washer system will be, nor do I know how the fluid will behave without its alcohol solvent.

In my mind, having alcohol vapor boiling out of anything under your hood is a potential calamity waiting to happen and that alone is reason enough to avoid this stuff. Not to mention the effects of denatured alcohol on rubber hoses. Who the hell designed this crap??

I can't wait to find out what the long term effects are on the pump, etc....


Anyone else have a run-in with this stuff?


-tp