• Not a newt@piefed.ca
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    8 hours ago

    Clean your windshield, inside and out,

    Five minutes on a road that gets salted in the winter, and the windshield will be covered in a thin crust left behind by the brine spray from other vehicles. End result is that things will be just as bad when the sun hits you straight on.

    Polarized glasses, as you mention, do help, as well as putting down the visor so you don’t stare directly into the sun.

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      8 hours ago

      That’s why it’s really important to have enough windshield washer fluid (rated down to whatever cold temperature you might encounter). Just gotta run that once every few minutes.

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      7 hours ago

      If you are catching spray, try to increase the follow distance between you and the vehicle ahead. Same deal for rocks in places where that is a concern. It can be hard to leave a big gap, for fear that someone will come into that gap, but you can’t fix everyone, you can only fix you.

      But, we also do have wipers for anything that happens during the current drive, not as good as not getting dirty in the first place, but better than staying dirty.

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        If there’s a lot of traffic then increasing the distance every time someone fills in the gap, you’ll soon be standing still hah. Not every issue can be fixed, just gotta wash it with windshield wiper fluid often

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        6 hours ago

        Fine enough for the car ahead of you but then there’s the issue of oncoming traffic.