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- From: basiji@stein.u.washington.edu (David Basiji)
- Newsgroups: rec.autos
- Subject: Re: Rain-X?
- Date: 27 Jan 1993 22:42:19 GMT
- Organization: University of Washington
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- tmr@wdl1.wdl.loral.com (Tim Ryan) writes:
-
- >It works great for a while. It doesn't seem to last that long during heavy
- >rain fall. About a week at best. The windows appear to be much clearer
-
- I've noticed that it isn't so much the rain as the windshield wipers that
- cause the RainX to wear away. My side and back windows have gone an entire
- Seattle winter without reapplication of RainX. The swept area of my front
- windshield is only good for a few storms if I run the wipers, the borders
- are good for months.
-
- I like driving the freeway in heavy rain without wipers and getting the
- faster-than-light-effect (if you've ever seen StarTrek, The Next Generation,
- you know what I mean with the stars streaking by).
-
- David Basiji
- UW Bioengineering
- NeRD #3762
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