Removing dead flies/bugs from windscreen

[Russ]

Anyone offer any advice on this. My windscreen is like a 'flies cemetry' and all the 'specialised products' aren't any good.

Anyone got any tips on best way to remove the poor blighters.

[Tom]

There is a sponge available which has a hard coarse surface on one side and an ordinary soft sponge on the other. The hard side is for removing flies off the windscreen, I have found it invaluable when after batting down the french motorways for a couple of hours, a splash of water and an application of the sponge works wonders. Let us know if you find it useful. Cheers Tom

[:::Jerry::::]

Water, sponge, and drop of car shampoo whilst not forgetting the secrete ingredient - elbow grease.... Doh!

[Graeme Eldred]

In message , Russ writes

Coke is supposed to be very good for that - but could be an urban myth :-)

[Mike Hibbert]

man! at £50 a gram, thats bloody expensive!

[BeeJay]

Autoglym "Fastglass" is usually sufficient but Autoglym "Car Glass Polish" if it is really bad. It's what they use to get the flies off the royals limousines.

[GPG]

I was vaguely watching a short prog on the TV the other evening, and some chap was extolling the virtues of applying cling film to the windscreen before the flies were encountered, then he could just pull the film off complete with flies. I seem to recall France being mentioned, and we all know that there are no flies on the French

[Homer2911]

I was vaguely watching a short prog on the TV the other evening, and some chap was extolling the virtues of applying cling film to the windscreen

before the flies were encountered, then he could just pull the film off

complete with flies. I seem to recall France being mentioned, and we all know that there are no flies on the French

[mungoh]

.=2E. and how do you know the exact prices?? :-)

Nowt to do with removing flies, but recently I've been a convert to that product called "Rain-X". During the winter there I did a 50 mile journey in a persistent downpour on the motorway and didn't need to use my wipers once. Honest. Below 50mph it ain't that good. But get a bit more speed on and the rain drops just fly off the screen. A bit mesmerising though: all these rain "tadpoles" squirming off the screen... damn, I ought to concentrate on the road!

Mungo :-)

[BeeJay]

This is exactly the method used by Formula 1 drivers. At the start of the race the helmet visors are covered in about 6 layers of the film. During the race, they just progressively peel off the layers.

[Dave]

I got chatting to my local hand wash lads and they said that they used DFR solution and they offered to give me some for my washer bottle. I suspect that it must remain in contact with the screen for a while before the flies can be washed off though.

(I presume that DFR stands for dead fly remover)

Dave

[Mac.]

replying to Russ, Mac. wrote: I use a one sided blade tool that can be purchased from Wilko fo about £3:25 and that's with 5 spare blades. I've had mine 4/5 years and only used 2 blades. Its primary use is for getting paint off,of Windows.

[Mr Pounder Esquire]

11 years old. Who let these wankers in here?

[James Wilkinson]

On Thu, 21 Jul 2016 20:00:04 +0100, Phil L wr= ote:

I have a reply. Use your windscreen wipers.

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The difference between insane asylums and our schools is that in the ins= ane asylum you have to show some improvement before you can get out.

[tabbypurr]

A steel scraper on a toughened windscreen sounds like a bad idea to me.

And sort out your access!

NT

[tabbypurr]

The posters aren't the problem, they're just using an access portal they do n't realise is borked. New blood in the group is mostly a good thing.

NT