RE: rain-x

[Thi VanAusdal <tvanausdal@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Addressing the clever marketing idea of point [2]:

Despite monthly usage, the bigger bottle lasts me all year.

Hell, I've *lost* more than I've used in a bottle before 
- - not even 1 fl. oz. for my windshield per dose ... 
it's a $7 bottle, tops.

The extra dosage makes a HUGE difference in how effective
it is.  And the caveats are as noted below.

 -thi v., cleaning RainX off my hands for 10 years
p.s. at 70 mph my 2002 needs no wipers with a recent application

> > [1] My personal (and completely unsupported) theory is
> > that RainX works really well when applied according to
> > its instructions mainly because of their emphasis on the
> > step noted in [3] above. You can test this for yourself
> > by cleaning the entire windscreen according to the RainX
> > instructions, applying RainX to *half* of it, then
> > observing the results.  I think it loses its effectiveness
> > as the windscreen gets dirty again. (A thorough cleaning
> > usually cures chattering wipers, too.)
> 
> completely unsupported is right... have you ever even tried rain-x? a
> perfectly clean window will not get rid of rain the way a rain-x
> treated window will, not even close. no, rain-x is not a miracle
> product, it has its benefits and its drawbacks. in a very light mist
> it can be worse than a windhshield without it, and it needs to be
> reapplied every month or so... however, imho, in a storm it's
> fantastic. i drove home from limerock, conn. to washington, d.c. last
> summer in a huge rainstorm, hours of it, cars were pulling off the
> road, it was that bad. i felt like it wasn't even raining, and was
> running the wipers on slow, i could see that well.
> 
> m.
> 
> 

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