Ah Ha!
I am using the Rain X pink washer fluid. I thought I was being so clever too!
You gave many great hints, I shall try them all.
I have been a huge fan of Rain X, but not for what you may think.
DON'T USE IT ON YOUR WINDSHIELD!
When used on the windshield,...yeah it works like they say, but after a while, the wipers will "abrade" it, nother words the wipers start wearing it off. When this happens, the wipers create a sort of haze on the screen, and it sucks to look through.F
BUT, USE IT ON YOUR SIDE GLASS AND MIRRORS!
It is magic on your side glass and mirrors. Even in the worst storms you can see your right side mirror to change lanes, it is great. Something I learned from driving bus to Reno over Donner Pass in the winter for 12 years.
LITTLE KNOWN FACTOID:
Donner Pass in California is on I-80 and runs from San Francisco to the east through Reno, Denver, and keeps going somewhere into the unknown.
Anyway, this Donner Pass is the SNOWIEST PLACE in the lower 48 states. A really bad winter will drop 40+
feet of snow at the summit and be below 0 degrees.
That 40 feet of snow doesn't go anywhere either gang, it just sits there until spring. So it sort of like driving through a huge trench, with walls of snow which have been blown up by the highway crew. They can't use plows, because where would you plow it to with a wall like that?
The most impressive machine I saw on the highway crew was a converted diesel electric locomotive set up mounted on a truck chassis. It drove a huge snow fan which sent the snow flying up over the bank of snow and out of the way. A very impressive thing to see on a sunny day just after a winter storm.
Perhaps I am babbling...
