Cleaning Prius Windows

Stoner invisible glass cleaner? "Dude! This window! It's, like, invisible! Woaaah! Oh, wait, it's open..."

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(gupchurch1349 @ Dec 17 2006, 09:11 AM) [snapback]363368[/snapback]</div>

Three dollars? That's like a gallon of gas or a Big Mac, Stoner dude! The damp and dry towel thing that someone posted here the other day is practically free. I'm a big fan of a little vinegar and some newspapers, also quite inexpensive.

 

I just use the squeegee at the gas station. Between fill-ups I use the window-washer-squirter and the windshield wipers. No matter how clean you get the windows, they'll be dirty again soon.

Einstein showed that space and time are equivalent. You can also demonstrate that time and cleanliness are equivalent: Anything will get dirty at a rate determined by its environment. Thus you can speak of, for example, five minutes dirty (as dirty as a perfectly clean item will get in 5 minutes of normal life). Or one hour dirty. Or three months dirty. It is pointless to clean something to a state of 5 minutes dirty. If you wash your car every day (which seems obsessive to me) then getting it clean to 15 or 30 minutes dirty seems sufficient. If you clean your house once a month, getting it to one-day dirty is perfectly adequate.

So I let the windshield washer clean my windshield, and a couple of times a month, when I put gas in, I clean the windows all around with the squeegee

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(daniel @ Dec 17 2006, 09:17 PM) [snapback]363551[/snapback]</div>

How do you clean inside of front window? How do you reach it all?

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Scheil1 @ Dec 17 2006, 05:26 PM) [snapback]363556[/snapback]</div>

Guess I'm the wrongperson to ask. I've never done that. It's always the outside that gets dirty. But I suppose if I decided to clean it I'd use Windex and a paper towel. I'd probably move the passenger seat back as far as it goes and then try to reach it standing up. But since I've never tried, I have no idea if that would work. Maybe kneeling on the front seats? But definitely Windex. Same as for house windows. I guess ammonia and water if you need to be economical.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(daniel @ Dec 18 2006, 10:20 AM) [snapback]363695[/snapback]</div>

?? If the occupants are breathing the inside surfaces of the windows will eventually collect a film.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(richard schumacher @ Dec 18 2006, 11:14 AM) [snapback]363721[/snapback]</div>

Especially if they're stoners.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(richard schumacher @ Dec 18 2006, 07:14 AM) [snapback]363721[/snapback]</div>

I guess I just have really clean breath. And I seldom have passengers. If I was not so lazy, I'd do the experiment: clean the outside, and half the inside, and look for a difference.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(daniel @ Dec 18 2006, 09:20 AM) [snapback]363695[/snapback]</div>

From my experience, Windex streaks and leaves a film. The best window cleaner that I have so far used is Vinegar.


<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(richard schumacher @ Dec 18 2006, 10:14 AM) [snapback]363721[/snapback]</div>

Well, some people might not want to hear this, but the film that collects on the insides of the windows is not from the occupants' breath. It is the outgassing of all the plastics used in the construction on the car. Specifically, it is the plasticizers that outgas from the plastic and collect on the windows.

The bad part of this is that literally everyone who drives a car these days is breathing those fumes while in their car. I can not imagine that it is totally healthy to breath this stuff.

Now that I have made your day -

Wishing you all the best,
Matthew

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Scheil1 @ Dec 17 2006, 05:26 PM) [snapback]363556[/snapback]</div>

My strategy is to stand outside of the car and reach in to clean the windshield. My arms are long enough to get right to the middle, so i'll just wash one half and then go to the other side to get the rest. Cleaning the glass by sitting in the car is for the contortionists.


<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Wiyosaya @ Dec 18 2006, 10:13 AM) [snapback]363831[/snapback]</div>

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(MegansPrius @ Dec 18 2006, 07:24 AM) [snapback]363727[/snapback]</div>

Haha...I totally thought the film on the windshield is from all the pot I smoked in the car. Good info

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(daniel @ Dec 18 2006, 12:35 PM) [snapback]363812[/snapback]</div>

What about the Smug Cloud that forms over your head? That surely would cause the windows to film over at some point....

 

Either you have very long arms, or I have very short arms, because I always clean the inside while sitting in the front seat...

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Presto @ Dec 18 2006, 01:20 PM) [snapback]363836[/snapback]</div>

For the longest time, I wondered where it was coming from because I don't even smoke. Not too long ago, though, I heard a story on NPR that specifically stated that it is the plasticizers.

Sort of off-topic, here, its a good thing that you can't be recognized from your picture. There's probably some official out there now trying to determine who you are to call you to task for virtually admitting you drive stoned. :lol:

I remember the story about they guy who videoed himself driving at something like 150 MPH on city expressways and was then subsequently arrested.

Anyway, I'm sure you are just kidding...
:lol:

All the best,
Matthew

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Wiyosaya @ Dec 18 2006, 10:13 AM) [snapback]363831[/snapback]</div>

IOW our cars are killing us. Even Priuses. But until I can actually see that film, I'm not sure it really matters. Once it collects on the windshield I doubt it goes back to the air.

Maybe the fact that I cannot see any film means my car was the one made with the experimental super-secret non-outgassing plastic that the government does not want anybody to know about. You know the stuff: it was designed to go along with those 250-mpg carburators that the oil companies kept off the market. [Yes, I'm joking... I do take this seriously, but since I can do nothing about it I don't give myself ulcers over it.]

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Wiyosaya @ Dec 18 2006, 01:13 PM) [snapback]363831[/snapback]</div>

Totally worth it as long as I get that "New Car Smell".

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Presto @ Dec 18 2006, 01:20 PM) [snapback]363836[/snapback]</div>

Legalize it, don't criminalize it:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061218/od_uk_...usa_marijuana_1

(excertping a little)

Marijuana top US cash crop, policy analyst says

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. growers produce nearly $35 billion (18 billion pounds) worth of marijuana annually, making the illegal drug the country's largest cash crop, bigger than corn and wheat combined, an advocate of medical marijuana use said in a study released on Monday.

The report, conducted by Jon Gettman, a public policy analyst and former head of the National Organisation for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, also concluded that five U.S. states produce more than $1 billion worth of marijuana apiece: California, Tennessee, Kentucky, Hawaii and Washington.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(daniel @ Dec 18 2006, 02:35 PM) [snapback]363878[/snapback]</div>

Daniel,

You might try just running your finger on the inside of the window. Anything that contacts the window, such as one of those PDA/GPS holders that I have, makes the film much more apparent. Then again, maybe you don't want to know. :lol:

All the best,
Matthew

 

Daniel

Does the group Cat Lovers Against the Bomb still exist??! I had a CLATB calendar about 100 years ago. Haven't heard from them since. :blink: