Right on, Unca Joel! I love Rain-X too, but realized the danger one time
when it was raining really hard, I was driving about 65 and passed someone
who was doing maybe 35, with his windshield wipers going furiously, hunched
over the steering wheel trying to see where he was going - - I hadn't even
noticed anything beyond a sprinkle and hadn't turned on my windshield wipers
yet! Gotta be careful!

First time I used it, I'd picked up a bottle and hadn't used it yet - - ran
into freezing fog (nasty stuff - - the tiny spheroids of water don't freeze
until they hit your sub-freezing windshield, then splat! they form a layer
of ice), went through probably a gallon of windshield washer fluid, and
finally in desperation applied the Rain-x. Voila! Was able to continue on
down the road rather than parking it for the night and losing about 10 - 12
hours of travel time!

One other thing - - the newer the glass, the better it works. If you have an
old windshield with thousands of tiny pits from blowing sand on it, the
Rain-x doesn't work so well.

Gary

Date:    Fri, 23 Nov 2007 13:38:18 -0600
> From:    joel walker <jwalker17@EARTHLINK.NET>
> Subject: Re: Friday:  Best Stupid Automotive Product
>
> > Anybody tried Rain-X?? Which side of the fence does it fall on? It
> > is
> > for real and really work - like a pistol-grip fly gun , or is it
> > like
> > Sky-hooks, Blinker Fluid, Paper Bag Stretchers, Bird-tail salters,
> > moose
> > catchers, Polar Bear pea traps, and the like?
>
> hypnotizing. but kinda somewhat sorta maybe dangerous ... it makes you
> THINK you're not going as fast as you really are. sorta. can.
> anyway, it really really works.
>
> but it's REALLY good for outside mirrors! keeps the dew/frost from
> forming on them in cool/cold weather! and rear windows!
>
>