Heated Tailgate
#16
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You'd want it warm, but not hot. People flip out when I use water to clear my windshield. COLD water. It's still got enough heat in it to clear things up.
#17
Now heated wipers I can understand, so that ice doesn't build up on them and they can keep doing their job.
#18
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But the water coming out of your faucet hasn't been sitting outside at 10 below with your washer fluid, either.
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#21
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Back in the 70's I put a wrap of header tape down then wound about 12" of 1/4" copper tube around the exhaust tube for the washer heater, idea started out for the choke heater.
I always thought a ducted blast of hot air through a heat exchanger at the base of the windshield would clear the snow and ice like a mini snowblower and could keep your windshield warm, blower was either electric or mechanically driven through a magnetic clutch.
Jim
I always thought a ducted blast of hot air through a heat exchanger at the base of the windshield would clear the snow and ice like a mini snowblower and could keep your windshield warm, blower was either electric or mechanically driven through a magnetic clutch.
Jim
#22
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My wipers usually freeze up during our Christmas run over to MT. Its a real pain. I wish I could rig a switch to reverse the heater fan so it would blow back thru the cowl a bit and thaw them out. Not sure if it would work, just thinkin out loud..
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