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| custom90 Member Since: 21 Jan 2010 Location: South West, England. Posts: 20525  
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You really never should need to, what brand was it? No Guts, No Glory.
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16th Jan 2025 8:26pm |
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| Zed Member Since: 07 Oct 2017 Location: In the woods Posts: 3339 
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You can buy screenwash that won’t freeze. I use Autoglym Ultimate as you can dilute it according to temperature. WARNING.
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16th Jan 2025 9:01pm |
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| Scotm Member Since: 28 Feb 2014 Location: Aberdeenshire Posts: 671  
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I usually use this stuff from Costco neat all year round. It has never frozen up here in NE Scotland.
 Click image to enlarge I also extended the pipe to the jets and have a section coiled round a coolant pipe to heat it up too. |
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16th Jan 2025 9:10pm |
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| DSC-off Member Since: 16 Oct 2014 Location: North East Posts: 1436 
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If you insulate the washer bottle it doesn’t prevent the jets freezing up.
The front jets are very exposed on the bulkhead. Using a -10C or -20C fluid is the way to go in the winter. |
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16th Jan 2025 9:29pm |
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| dave m2 Member Since: 11 Dec 2016 Location: N Yorks Posts: 4  
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Thanks for the replies, on closer inspection it's all season screen wash not winter 🤦🏻♂️ so my own fault..🤷🏻♂️
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17th Jan 2025 7:36am |
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| markb110 Member Since: 22 May 2010 Location: Guildford Posts: 2650 
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Webasto used to have a product called the Hot Shot which warmed up the entire screen wash system.
No idea if this is still available. The problem in the UK is by the time you think you need something like this the annual two week cold spell is over and Spring is starting…. Terrafirma did something similar but doesn’t look to be available anymore, not to say that one of the dealers may still have it on a shelf somewhere. You could DIY a 12v coffee cup warming element if it will fit through the washer bottle filler neck. However as previous mentioned that won’t stop the jets from freezing over. |
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17th Jan 2025 8:52am |
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| LR Nuts Member Since: 10 Aug 2022 Location: UK Posts: 1167 
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........ and that is if LR decide to fit the Heated Jets !!!! the mega money New Defender doesn't have them, unless you order the Icelandic Pack.
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17th Jan 2025 9:45am |
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| blackwolf Member Since: 03 Nov 2009 Location: South West England Posts: 17501 
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It really isn't difficult to provide hot screenwash. The Webasto kit, as I recall, was just a heat exchanger that you connected into the heater lines of the cooling system so that the screenwash was heated as it passed to the nozzles, and this is very easy to do (just extend the screenwash line and wrap it a few times round a coolant hose or heater hose - bingo, heated screenwash).
I've found that the more pressing problem in very cold weather is not the fluid freezing either in the reservoir or at the nozzle (that just tells me I got the mix wrong) but it is the wipers freezing to the point where they cease to be flexible and as a result do a very inadequate job of wiping. It is possible to buy heated wipers, since countries like Canada, where they have real winters, use them, but they are extremely expensive and generally far to big to fit our Defenders. Heated wipers would be a very useful option. |
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17th Jan 2025 10:56am |
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| Mo Murphy Member Since: 01 Jun 2008 Location: Letchworth Garden City, Herts Posts: 2259 
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I think they should have made a heated Land Rover 😁
Mo The Land Rover 90 - Many are called, few are chosen. 50 Shades of Pennine Grey |
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17th Jan 2025 12:23pm |
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| blackwolf Member Since: 03 Nov 2009 Location: South West England Posts: 17501
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They did make a very well-heated Land-Rover, it was called the TDCi.
On a Series One, the Smiths or Clayton fug-stirrer get hot enough to burn the hairs off the passengers legs. On a Puma, the heater can do it to both driver and passenger and at the same time! It can make the lower dash too hot to touch. It is almost frightening how much heat can come out, epsecially when you don't want it to. Mind you the heater is completely uncontrollable and the temperature fluctuates wildly in a rather reassuring "Land-Rover typical bad design" manner. |
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17th Jan 2025 1:12pm |
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| landy andy Member Since: 15 Feb 2009 Location: Ware, Herts Posts: 5755 
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They also managed to make the TDCi really hot on hot days unlike the superior Td5 that is lovely and cool with FRESH air on a summers day
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17th Jan 2025 1:15pm |
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| blackwolf Member Since: 03 Nov 2009 Location: South West England Posts: 17501
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They never really got it right, did they?
It's probably a good thing that in the end they stopped making interesting vehicles altogether and focussed on the wholly uninteresting school delivery systems.  |
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17th Jan 2025 1:52pm |
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| LR Nuts Member Since: 10 Aug 2022 Location: UK Posts: 1167
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That is because they tried to keep making them like they did in 1948 !!!
The BEST of the older LR ever build was the FL2, due to it being designed by Ford and built in Ford's factory. FL2 ..... the Best Ford x Ford x Far
Current BEST has to be the New Defender. |
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17th Jan 2025 3:23pm |
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| landy andy Member Since: 15 Feb 2009 Location: Ware, Herts Posts: 5755
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Agree. The current best school delivery system is the new defender
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17th Jan 2025 3:40pm |
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