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Posted by: flipb Mar 15 2010, 10:45 AM

I'm debating whether to upgrade to electric - curious about the "state of the fleet" with this equipment.

Posted by: tracks914 Mar 15 2010, 10:56 AM

Spare tire pressure on both cars but neither has ever been hooked up....yet, I just drive on sunny days.

Posted by: iamchappy Mar 15 2010, 11:03 AM

I use the electric upgrade and RainX

Posted by: Shade Tree Mar 15 2010, 11:40 AM

Have the parts to change it to an electric Suzuki Samurai set up. It's just lower on the list than like 85 other things. For instance, I decided I was finished tuning the engine Saturday evening. Got out of the car after the test drive and broke the door handle....I can't keep up.

Posted by: Phoenix 914-6GT Mar 15 2010, 11:42 AM

I just use rainX and actually rarely need to use the wipers

Posted by: SirAndy Mar 15 2010, 11:45 AM

911 (same as 914-6) electric pump with the stock bottle and stock intermittent relay.

Andy

Posted by: JmuRiz Mar 15 2010, 12:06 PM

I don't use mine, really only be in rainy weather 2 times. I use rain-x and will probably remove them all together when/if I do bodywork (along with reflectors and antenna).

Posted by: Van Mar 15 2010, 01:23 PM

I don't use mine, but it's because I know how the system works... the washer hose goes up the steering column and is "pinched" to turn off... It's only a matter of time before that old, dry-rotted rubber hose breaks and I have a lap full of washer fluid!

Posted by: Zundfolge Mar 15 2010, 01:36 PM

I use the optional "driver's seat monkey with a spray bottle and rag" (usually use newspaper though, not a rag).

Posted by: flipb Mar 15 2010, 01:49 PM

So nobody still risks the lap squirt?

My reservoir is relatively full, but the air hose to the spare won't hold pressure. Wonder how old that fluid is.

Posted by: ME733 Mar 15 2010, 02:51 PM

........very soft rag....WINDEX......dry.....very soft rag....RAIN-X....DRY, rub in ....but it,s now just my good weather garage queen...., until I hit the twisty- back roads.....(gotta check the deer whistle) before my next excursion.

Posted by: markb Mar 15 2010, 03:15 PM

Me too.

Posted by: ArtechnikA Mar 15 2010, 03:29 PM

6's came with electric...

In SoCal I almost never used it.

Here in SEPA I do, almost every day, especially in slush season with so much muddy spray. And a lot more diesel traffic.

in the ur-GTI I ran hoses and nozzles directly to the wiper arms, WRC-style.

Posted by: jt914-6 Mar 15 2010, 03:33 PM

Have a bottle/pump combo in front with an adjustable intermittant wiper switch. I also use Rain-x.

Posted by: turboman808 Mar 15 2010, 03:37 PM

stoners and a microfiber towel works better.

I try not to get the car wet.

Posted by: turnaround89 Mar 15 2010, 05:39 PM

my car sits on jackstands, so no point in cleaning the windshield

i upgraded to an electric pump, works pretty well...but when i did have a driveable car, i wash it so often, i hardly every used the washers

Posted by: Pat Garvey Mar 15 2010, 07:35 PM

So simple. Just keep the spare pressurized. Works like Ferry meant it to.
Pat

Posted by: KaptKaos Mar 15 2010, 07:39 PM

Rainx

Posted by: Vacca Rabite Mar 15 2010, 08:24 PM

The squirters are installed for looks only. Non of the other bits to make it work are hooked up.

It gets RainXed a few times each season, and that seems to work fine.

Zach

Posted by: bag5rcg Mar 15 2010, 08:48 PM

Rain-X baby

Posted by: swood Mar 15 2010, 10:36 PM

Rain?

Posted by: BarberDave Mar 16 2010, 06:46 AM

ME733, I just couldn't let this pass. Do you check the dear whistle often,

what is your record ,how many dead dear have you found under it.


My spare won't hold air. so the washers don't work. RainX is the ans.

and the old seat monkey.

I once drove home from Hershey in the Rain , be cause of the RainX

rain just blew off. Dave

Posted by: Vacca Rabite Mar 16 2010, 11:02 AM

Yeah, RainX is magic stuff. I put it on all my cars whenever they get washed (and usually end up washing my cars when I notice that the RainX has all washed away).

You almost don't need wipers when the stuff is on and working.

I use RainX on the outside, and FogX on the inside (since I have no heat either).

Zach

Posted by: naro914 Mar 16 2010, 11:10 AM

914's had windshield washers? Really?
Oh, is that what the little holes near the windshield are for??

Posted by: watsonrx13 Mar 16 2010, 03:24 PM

Ditto...

-- Rob

Posted by: 70_914 Mar 16 2010, 06:14 PM

Don't use RainX on Bug windshields.....
I found out how well window stripper works after that mistake. There is no wind blowing the rain droplets off the flat vertical windshield due, if my slight knowledge of aerodynamics does not fail me, to the high pressure zone right in front of the windshield.

Anyway.... on bugs RainX is not magic stuff it is the devil.

And to answer the question - I run the spare tire air and cuss at the poor performance, just like the good Dr. intended.

Posted by: charliew Mar 16 2010, 08:12 PM

When I redid my son's 72 super beetle I replaced the lines with plastic and new rubber, it seems to work just like it did 25 years ago. I will probably do electric on the 914 though.