Best Windshield Washer fluid for cold weather

What’s the best winter weather washer fluid for my Tacoma?

 

It depends on the temps that you will see. Just about anything with methanol in it (the 0F or -32F stuff) will cover most anybody?

One thing that I really like is to add some RainX booster:

$7 Rain-X White RX11806D Washer Fluid Additive-16.9 fl. oz, 500. ml

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000BPTVTK

Better than buying the RainX brand jugs.

 

Depending on temps I use the purple and orange rainx fluid/deicer. We get some cold temps in wisconsin. One goes to -40 just because I think of windchill. Usually we don´t drop below zero for long.

 

^ Same

 

The winter kind

 

I buy Turbo Power when it goes on sale by the case...

 

I use rain-x. I also treat the windshield with it... I hate driving in the rain with out it

 

I have been using the Orange RainX for years.

 

If you can light it on fire and the flames are invisible, then its the good stuff.

But as others have said, get something with a -30 rating.

 

Careful with this stuff. I found out the hard way that ( whatever I used ) in my wife's Subaru messed
up the sensor ( duh ) that tells you when you need to add fluid. Now the light is on all the time. I really
don't need no stupid sensor to tell me there is no juice in it when I try to utilize it and none comes out...
but these engineer types they have to put sensors in everything.

Dealer wants $150 diagnosis fee to tell me the sensor is bad ( duh )...
And they want $600 to fix it ... ( as if ) ...

I'd just yank the thing but you have to pull the $()#*$**$*$@!* front bumper off to get to it...

The HUMANITY...

So... I don't know if Tacoma's have such sensors, but if they do - I'd buy the stuff from Toyota and keep the receipt.

 

We dont have sensors in the tacoma for the US market, Canada got the sensor though.

 

Like a lot of things, I guess what you use depends on where you live. It definitely gets cold here in Atlanta, but rarely "bite-ass" cold and it does not stay cold for very long. Standard winter grade wiper fluid works fine here in the deep south.

 

I predicted this thread last week, wow…

I’m in the wrong business.

 

LOL, yes you did!

 

Did you fail to read the OM for your Cessna as well? Hope you're not in CT. We've had enough bozos in small planes crashing & endangering innocent people.

 

I've been using the cheapest winter formulas with the RainX booster in all of our cars, including our Forester with the sensor. No issues in 7yrs and 70k. Just one data point though.


Now, the intake VVT sensors fragging due to oil contamination loading, that's a whole 'nother story.

 

Smirnoff 100 proof

 

Da!

 

Why do you think us Canadians always have a double-double in their hands.. eh?