Miata Mailing List: December 1996, Message #80
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Subject: Re: Rain X

   Date: (none)



Found this on the Mercedes list, for those of you who actually GET rain...

Tom Reynolds

Hereford, AriDzona (hehehe)





>Date: Mon, 02 Dec 1996 18:34:16 +1300

>From: Nick Bracken 

>To: mercedes@bga.com

>Subject: Re: Rain X

>References: <961201140038_1152081164@emout07.mail.aol.com>

>Sender: owner-mercedes@bga.com

>Reply-To: mercedes@bga.com

>

>Nick Bracken 

>The next best thing to Rain X is the humble old potato. 

>Cut it in half and rub over the entire screen as you would with 

>Rain X. Wash it off with water and you'll find the effect is the same.

>The starch polishes the glass and helps the water dissipate.

> It's a hell of a lot cheaper than the price they charge for Rain X.

>

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>Rgortz@aol.com wrote:

>> 

>> Rgortz@aol.com

>> My experience with Rain X is that it is great during the first few rains, but

>> the windshield  can not be cleaned well for about five months afterward!  I'm

>> a clean windscreen nut, and I use windex or similar stuff daily.  After Rain

>> X treatment, the glass is always streaky and never really clean.  I stopped

>> using it only for that reason.

>> 

>> Dick Gortz

>> MBCA, Western Reserve Section

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