What to do about the people on the freeway that spray you washing their windshields?

Malibu Rapper

Malibu Rapper

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I swear it happens at least once a month. Someone decides to wash their windshield right in front of me and sprays my clean car. I won't turn on my wipers because I don't wanna get the guy behind me.

So I have been thinking, 2 of my daily drivers have a rear windshield wiper and spray. With some modification to the rear nozzle, I can make it spray backwards. With a little more modification, I can add a reservoir of used motor oil and higher pressure. The idea is not to make the road slick, just tag their car with a mist of hard to clean crap like they did to me.

But there are 2 problems, drip (when the pressure drops) and the turbulence can send the oil back to my car. How do I overcome these problems?
 
kill their families?














Or just get over it because that seems like a very stupid thing to get worked up about.
 
Better question would be what do you do about the ridiculous people who throw their cigarette butts out of their windows? I've been hit more than several times and have had some close calls with the targa out. :mad:
 
Malibu Rapper said:
I swear it happens at least once a month. Someone decides to wash their windshield right in front of me and sprays my clean car. I won't turn on my wipers because I don't wanna get the guy behind me.

So I have been thinking, 2 of my daily drivers have a rear windshield wiper and spray. With some modification to the rear nozzle, I can make it spray backwards. With a little more modification, I can add a reservoir of used motor oil and higher pressure. The idea is not to make the road slick, just tag their car with a mist of hard to clean crap like they did to me.

But there are 2 problems, drip (when the pressure drops) and the turbulence can send the oil back to my car. How do I overcome these problems?
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Stop tailgating them. :tongue:
 
Yeah i feel you on that one...I was pissed too when I was driving and all the sudden my windshield gets sprayed. Oh wells I just move on.
 
NSX-Tuner said:
Stop tailgating them. :tongue:
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Actually I think if I tailgate them I'd avoid the overspray. It's when your not on their ass that they get you. My motorcycle friends hate it too... Twice this week I got hit after cleaning my car. Soccer mom in a Ford Expedition on a cell phone and just a strange fella in a dirty car. Just an absolute lack of common courtesy to other drivers. It's like getting sneezed on... Please don't wash your windshields on the freeway if people are behind you!
 
you tryin to steal my idea? :tongue:
i always talk about putting another washer system in my car, putting some backward-facing nozzles, filling the reservoir with brake fluid, and blasting douchebags.....
but not because they spray washer fluid infront of me.... unless they are doing it to be a douchebag.

i always thought that was funny though.... somebody emptying their reservoir to get a couple drops of washer fluid on your car..... big deal.
 
Haha.. this always happens to me too. When we were younger and just got our cars we use to turn the front nozzles to the side and then pull up to our friends where ever we went and tell them to come over to the car for something.. then blast em. Yeah we were 16 once...:tongue:
 
I had an Inifiniti QX56 spray me once when I was over 1 car length behind him at a stoplight. Either his washers were broken or he rigged them that way on purpose to piss people off. The streams shot over his windshield and directly onto my freshly washed car. unbelievable.

But what can you do about it?
 
As long as it washes off pretty quickly I don't mind... unless on the way to a car show.

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However, I had a semi truck once spraying this oily mist for miles that was about 12 cars in front of us and traffic was backed up. That sucked! You couldn't really wash it off your windshield, it just smeared it. The front, hood, and top of the car was covered in the crap. I was so pissed but finally got around him. :mad:

While we are bitching, I can't stand cars that spew black smoke and smokey exhaust in general... fix your $hit!
 
chado said:
Haha.. this always happens to me too. When we were younger and just got our cars we use to turn the front nozzles to the side and then pull up to our friends where ever we went and tell them to come over to the car for something.. then blast em. Yeah we were 16 once...:tongue:
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I totally remember doing that in High School. I wonder if it was a SoCal thing?
 
squid2004 said:
As long as it washes off pretty quickly I don't mind... unless on the way to a car show.
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The problem is that they make my windshield dirtier than what they started with. I'm too courteous to do the same crap to the guy behind me so I have to drive with their crap on my windshield until I can pull over and clean it off. Not to mention it gets the whole frontside and top of my car.

So since it's such a small thing, they shouldn't mind it when I get them back, right? I'm not killing any families, I'm just gonna give them a taste of their own medicine. It's ignorant and inconsiderate what they do so they will pay... Warn your wives and children, revenge will be mine and it will be sweet. I am not getting angry, I'm just getting even and there will be laughter.

The prior post was post #2000 for me and this is 2001. This marks the turning point in which I will use my 12v creativity for evil.
 
SilverStone05 said:
Better question would be what do you do about the ridiculous people who throw their cigarette butts out of their windows? I've been hit more than several times and have had some close calls with the targa out. :mad:
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that happened to me in my del sol a few years back. it actually burned me too. it pissed me off a whole lot, because im not even a smoker.
 
Flame me..... that's a reason I drive 85,90,95,100,110 and change lanes.... so I can be in front. It's pretty hard to get into an accident or interact with other cars. Being in front certainly has its advantages..... now I can be in that thread on speeding in one of the other forums earlier.

Danny
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lrsudog said:
I totally remember doing that in High School. I wonder if it was a SoCal thing?
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Nope. :biggrin: We did it up here in NorCal, too! Never did it to cars though, just friends we knew and that wouldn't beat the snot out of us.

Sounds like alot of us attended Juvenille Delinquents 101 and in some cases, such as mine, went on to earn advanced degrees in the subject.

I know where you're coming from, Malibu. I did have two SUV's spray me on the way up to the Driving Ambitions open house last weekend. Had to stop and clean up the car before going to the meet.

Later,
Charles...BS/ MS/ PhD (BullStuff, MoreStuff, Piled Higher and Deeper)
 
Nope, we did the whole sideways nozzle thing here in central california too, lol. Pull up next to someone and have it wizz over lol. Usually it was someone we knew, haha.
 
KooLaid said:
Nope, we did the whole sideways nozzle thing here in central california too, lol. Pull up next to someone and have it wizz over lol. Usually it was someone we knew, haha.
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We used to call that "Puppy Pissing"- happened all the time leaving the parking lot after highschool. Two lanes of traffic sitting side by side on the exit road. It was a really good if you pulled alongside someone driving one of those lowrider pick-ups and they had people riding in the bed... :biggrin:

Philip
 
You guys are so bad hahahahhahaa!!! :biggrin:
 
SilverStone05 said:
Better question would be what do you do about the ridiculous people who throw their cigarette butts out of their windows? I've been hit more than several times and have had some close calls with the targa out. :mad:
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Now you have a legitimate complaint. Littering is an offence. Attempted arson? I don't know the law.
 
I can see your point Malibu Rapper. Most of us just didn't think of it when we cleaned our dirty windows on the highway. At what speed and conditions can I use my wipers? You know most of us did not mean to get your car dirty.
 
Tony Montoya said:
I can see your point Malibu Rapper. Most of us just didn't think of it when we cleaned our dirty windows on the highway. At what speed and conditions can I use my wipers? You know most of us did not mean to get your car dirty.
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You may clean your windows when moving if you can look in your mirrors and see no car within your wake. Or how about cleaning them before you drive off?

I actually pull off to clean bird turds. But that's just me, maybe it's just the way I was raised. :tongue:
 

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