Heated Washers

[Rolfe]

That must be it I suppose.  There's certainly a "fan" effect on the Golf's windscreen.  I didn't realise it was using quite so much water compared to the (12-year-old) Peugeot, but I suppose it must be.

It's easy enough to fill it up, and the low washer fluid warning means I'm not going to run out unexpectedly.

Rolfe.

[mac7]

I don't think I'm washing the windscreen more often than I did with previous cars.  Where's it all going?

Are you using the washers often when your headlights are on? If so, they get a high pressure blast at the same time. This might help explain the high consumption.

[Captain Sensible]

Im up in Scotland and on Saturday night 8pm it was -8 form the temperature reading in the car. The washer jets were frozen and the windscreen was getting into some mess with the salt on the road. Makes for dangerous driving so I will be ordering the winter pack. Safety first.

[ub7rm]

Those with frozen washers are being shy with the windsceen fluid.  I've never had them freeze but I put about half a litre of fluid in the reservoir in the winter. 

Windchill is not really going to affect the jets as they benefit from the almost red hot turbo just below them and the aerodynamics of the car mean its a 'sheltered' spot anyway.  If they do start off frozen they will soon defrost from the engine heat.  Far more likely is that the fluid in the reservoir will freeze as its just behind one of the fog lights and can see really low temperatures (unless you use a strong mixture  )