screenwash recommendations for 987.2 Boxster? - Page 3 - Boxster/Cayman - PistonHeads UK

With the roads now getting grim with salt and standing water, and in anticipation of needing to top up my Boxster with screenwash, I wondered if any PH'ers have any recommendations beyond Porsche's own brand?

Try Halfords screen wash it comes in different smells like apple/Lemon. It not the one that is the already mixed. It has never frozen when I have used it !!

Anything original equipment and GERMAN: Audi, VW, Merc, BMW etc. IMO the Halfords stuff is horrid and false economy.

daveknott5 said: With the roads now getting grim with salt and standing water, and in anticipation of needing to top up my Boxster with screenwash, I wondered if any PH'ers have any recommendations beyond Porsche's own brand? This is the OEM brand: http://www.frost.co.uk/dr-ok-wack-screenwash.html

IIRC someone posted this time last year that there's a winter-specific one from VW (or Porsche, but I think it was VW) which is particularly good. I've never been organised enough to get any though. S

daveknott5 said: With the roads now getting grim with salt and standing water, and in anticipation of needing to top up my Boxster with screenwash, I wondered if any PH'ers have any recommendations beyond Porsche's own brand? Seriously................ It's post's like this that threaten to make Porsche (owners) dull as pi$$y dishwater. Are you seriously asking about other brand screen wash??? url] |http://thumbsnap.com/qsM9k0lV[/url]

For a slightly more serious answer, the OPC Porsche Screenwash is very effective but contains nothing to prevent it freezing. So I tend to dilute the working solution with 1 part in 4 100% iso-propanol. This does an excellent job of clearing the screen without blocking the nozzles. BTW, I have several friends who mixed screenwash types and the combinations that resulted actually turned to a jelly like substance that needed the whole system to be dismantled as the pipes blocked. So, if you want to change type of screenwash, empty the existing stuff out first.

Slow day at the office OP?

You need to be really careful here. Using non OEM screenwash will invalidate the warranty.

DT398 said: You need to be really careful here. Using non OEM screenwash will invalidate the warranty. This happened to me! I used non-OEM stuff that was too thin, causing the pump to over rev.

Happy Shopper said: This happened to me! I used non-OEM stuff that was too thin, causing the pump to over rev. Were the over-revs shown in the DME readout? S

anonymous said: [redacted] Residuals will be fine it's long as he doesn't use it!

My screen wash has deviated stitching.

I use Audi wash it's the best :-)

LOLz Mine is special light weight screen wash.

LOLz Mine is special light weight screen wash.

I may start cutting myself.

mrdemon said: I use Audi wash it's the best :-) Maybe, but surely the handling isn't direct enough is it meaning you just end up spilling it down the side of the car?

mrdemon said: I use Audi wash it's the best :-) Bit too GT in its design - doesn't come out fast enough!

Hmm, After some further internet trawling, it appears that as well as the DR.OK.WAK screenwash for non-winter use, the approved anti-freeze product is this one: SONAX NanoPro Xtreme 02325050 Anti-Freeze and Anti-Mist Concentrate 5 L And it is £25-30 a pop on Amazon. (offers a selection of knives to Molly).

How much? I think I'll stick with paying £1.49+vat for 4 litres of concentrate.

If you Google 'Boxster screen wash', this post is the first result :-) Seriously though, you need the stuff a couple of times a year and it costs 1/10 of a full tank of petrol? go to an OPC and ask for some. Grab a coke while you're at it :-)

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OPC left me a bottle of concentrate in my boot after my last service.

Zyp said: OPC left me a bottle of concentrate in my boot after my last service. I would check your invoice!

mollytherocker said: I would check your invoice! runs off to get car file....*

And there's me thinking I got given something from Porsche for free £4.27 on my invoice. Same as this - http://www.design911.co.uk/fu/prod125861/Porsche-W...

I have half a dozen of those each with the first dose squeezed out of them. I used to think it was very kind of the OPC to give me a nice litre bottle of Mobil 1 in a presentation case too... until I read the invoice properly.

rob.kellock said: I have half a dozen of those each with the first dose squeezed out of them. I used to think it was very kind of the OPC to give me a nice litre bottle of Mobil 1 in a presentation case too... until I read the invoice properly. I think even if you brim your washer bottle before dropping it off they'll still manage to stiff you for a bottle as they'll have made room for a dose by testing the washers As for Mobil 1, I was infuriated to find that despite there being a not very old, unopened bottle in there from the last service they STILL put a new one in. I think if a 25,000 mile GT2 were to ever need TWO emergency litres of oil there'd be something to worry about!

Zyp said: And there's me thinking I got given something from Porsche for free £4.27 on my invoice. Same as this - http://www.design911.co.uk/fu/prod125861/Porsche-W... The shipping cost is £10.79 and it appears that the going rate for a bottle of this is between £7-£9, the non-Porsche branded DR.OK is actually more expensive than the non-Porsche stuff, I assume this is why the colour is different, Porsche owners get it at a cheaper cost. I got supplied this today for £7.62 and was interested to see the DR.OK.WACK label on the back:

In that case, I should feel like I've had a bargain! But alas, no.....in two years I've never had to top the washer bottle up and don't envisage having to do it anytime soon.

Try using your car, garage queen.

Says she!

Oi! I just done Evo Triangle followed by Oulton Park then 800 miles in Scotland to include getting busted by the Feds in an unmarked Volvo... I'm all out of screen wash me.

rob.kellock said: Oi! I just done Evo Triangle followed by Oulton Park then 800 miles in Scotland to include getting busted by the Feds in an unmarked Volvo... I'm all out of screen wash me. Will you need a good solicitor? I just drive with a s tty windscreen....

Is there a different screenwash for Turbos versus GT3s?

BertBert said: Is there a different screenwash for Turbos versus GT3s? Yep! Turbos use left and right jets where as GT3 only the right. Apparently the Turbo wash is slightly quicker but the GT3 stuff is way more fun to spray!

anonymous said: [redacted]

Zyp said: Will you need a good solicitor? Might need a Scottish one...

mollytherocker said: And a glass wind screen. And I thought TVR forum were bonkers!

LordB said: mollytherocker said: And a glass wind screen. And I thought TVR forum were bonkers! Its a mezger joke!