Just in time for Christmas.. I heard that Ford will introduce a heated tailgate on all their new trucks... apparently it's in response to complaints from current owners who experience "cold hands" while pushing their trucks home. On another note I saw on Tv the other night a mechanic had invented heated windshield washer fluid using the engine coolant to do the heating unlike GM who tried to heat theirs electrically which caused some fires. This guy just ran a copper tube down inside the reservoir with a temp control valve to avoid overheating the fluid. I thought about giving this a shot but by the time the Cummins warms up you are usually at destination.

 

OOOOOLLLLLLDDDDDDD (but still funny! )
Not a bad idea!

So sad... but true...

 

Thanks for a good laugh.

 

Actually it wouldn't take much heat to make a difference on a cold morning. Wrapping a little copper tube around the manifold a couple times would probably do it.

 

Doesn't seem to be much of a problem on the 1st gen as the washer reservoir is next to the turbo.
For the Jeep, I keep a spray bottle in front of the heater vent for such occasions.
Still need something to clean my head lights.

 

I thought the heated tailgate was for a warm place to sit while waiting for a tow truck......

 

I'm going for brunch at a friends place tomorrow, he's a Ford guy so I'll use that line. The moment after I posted this thread I knew it was in the wrong place

 

Seriously, I like my old 97 7.3 work truck, $4000 later she runs like she only has 100,000 miles on her again, and no tailgate!!

 

The 6.7 warms right up on the 2012 even deleted, just a couple miles longer then before deletes

 

On the Volvo semi I'm driving the washer tank is mounted on top of the radiator, next to the over flow tank. It doesn't freeze but it only holds a little over a quart, pretty useless.

 

A good shot of isopropyl alcohol will keep it fresh...

 

The new jeep Cherokee sprays the headlights with washer fluid to clean them

 

^^^ my old mercedes does that too.

 

I won't tell you how we clean them in MT...

It's a family oriented site, after all......

 

I'd be worried about hot washer fluid on a freezing windshield.... Just the other day, my fiancee drained pasta into the sink and shattered a drinking glass.