Who designs these things?!

[Bert the Turtle]

Washer fluid is sold in 1 gallon containers. Reservoir size? About 0.8 gallons.

 

[mauserhunter]

They account for spillage

 

[BourbonTrail]

Washer fluid is sold in 1 gallon containers. Reservoir size? About 0.8 gallons.

Hot dogs are sold in eight packs, buns in 6…Finance departments gotta squeeze somewhere

 

[Bert the Turtle]

They account for spillage

Given the location of the fill port, that’s honestly not a bad idea.

 

[mauserhunter]

I do like ones over a gallon, think my Ford holds over a gallon and a half nice since when your low you can dump a whole gallon in.

The second worst ass chewing I ever got was over a empty fluid reservoir, I was working in a truck shop in charge of the pm's( preventive maintenance). One day one of are Oshkosh cement mixers got pulled off the road by DOT. It was one of many trucks on a very high bid job and they were pissed at me, not my fault those drivers will go through 2 gallons a day. It's mosly there fault and laziness for one putting 14 yards in a 11.5 drum. This will fill up the chute and it's to much weight for the wiper seal that seals the top of the barrel where it spins on the superstructure. This makes concrete leak on the driver's window, and how they clean it off with the washer fluid.

 

[JimP]

The washer reseivor on my truck is huge, but I top it off every time that I check my oil. I hate running out of fluid.

On my Explorer it is quite small, but then again I top it off whenever I open the hood.

I also keep a bottle of washer fluid in both vehicles just encase I need it.

 

[CoElkHunter]

I can tell you, I ran out of washer fluid ONCE in a snowstorm and NEVER again! The slush kicked up by passing vehicles was horrible. I fill mine OFTEN. There is NO substitute. Oh, and if you live anywhere that can freeze in the winter, don't put the summer formula fluid in your reservoir or you could have a solid block of ice when it freezes.

 

[mauserhunter]

I've always treaded my glass with rain on all windows, it's really helps when you need it if put on properly. I also run rainx washer fluid, not as good as the buff on stuff but better then most other fluids I've used. Best I've used is the old Volvo stuff, they even had headlight fluid for the headlight wipers. I'm sure that's where the blinker fluid joke came from, my buddy worked at Volvo for years and his wife to so he would give me all kinds of goodies, I still check cars in the junkyard, Volvo used to have very nice road service kits in with the spare tire and jack, nice white gloves to.