Kabo

I washed my Imola Baby this weekend, and noticed something I never noticed before.

Now lately it has been raining a lot (like it should, it IS Seattle after all), and I've been using the wipers constantly. So I get a break in the weather, and decide to wash the car.

After wetting the car and getting a nice sheet of water on it, I noticed that my windshield now seems to have 2 "sections", the part where the wipers have been operating on, and the parts that the wipers don't touch. This is TOTALLY apparent since the water seems to bead on the part where the wipers don't touch, but kinda of sheet off and run down the part that the wipers do touch.

Did my wipers "scrape" off some fine layer of...something? during it's operation? It made drying the windshield super difficult. It was impossible to get a nice, streakless dry! I can see the difference between the 2 sections when I breath on the glass and "fog" it up a bit...it totally sucks!!

anyone else have this problem?

JeeRS

trying to dry with a towel.

Tostao

I just went home at lunch time and cleaned my windshield (raining here today and you could see the wipers path which was really grease)

- Good amout of Windex on it to cut nasty grease (usually I don't use windex to clean my windows, I much prefer Rain-X winshield liquid but in this case the
grease film was surprising)

- Cleaned the wiper blades too, again a bit of windex to get the grease, I was amazed at the amouts of dirt they had.

- Applied a coat of Rain-X water repellant.

After that, the wipers clean better than ever, no smirs or spots at all.