I've had my 2001 ES300 just over a week. She is in pristine condition with only 16,000 miles on her. It was drizzling today and the raindrops were literally rolling off the windshield. Unless my car has super powers, I am thinking the previous owner or dealer I bought her from must have applied something on the windshield to repel rain. Anyone have any ideas what kind of product it might be? It worked great!

 

There are products specific to glass like RainX that will do that, also just waxing the windows along with the rest of the car will cause that too. Kinda nice, huh?

 

I second what picus said......Rain-X or plain old wax will make that happen.

 

I third that. I even think that wax works better than rainX. But thats my thought on that.

 

Rain-X or comparable product. I swear by it. Under most conditions you don't even need wipers.

Wax works great until you run the wipers a few times. I thought it was cool when I would do that back in highschool before Rain-X was invented.

 

Only issue with RainX is it builds up overtime and can be a real pain to remove. I'd say if you apply wax more often than every 6 months, use wax. If not, use RainX.

 

Could be Aquapel. My brother applies it on his '03 Altima, and he never once has to use his wipers

BTW am I reading this right, 16K miles on a 2001 ES300? That's amazingly low mileage on a 5-year old car!

 

I have used Zaino on windows with GREAT results.

 

WOW she's just a baby. I just hit 94K on my 00 .

 

i use the wax and rainx with good results but i think its easier to use he wax

 

dang @ 100k in 6.5 years. I am at 99.6 on my SC, and it's twice as old!

 

Why is this a problem? Curious??

 

hahah, 130k at 10years old.

and most likely its just rainx. i know that some of the later Lexii came with a coated windshield which dispeled what but i think it was just the SC430

 

Yes, this car was the "too good to be true" deal of the century - but it really was true! It really is a 2001 with only 16K miles. The original owner had 4 cars (must be nice), hardly ever drove this car and decided to "get rid of it". Lucky for me! The thing looks and handles brand-spankin' new. They must have babied it.

Thanks to everyone for your feedback. I will have to try wax, RainX and Aquapel over the next several months to see which works best.

 

The wax comes off after a short period and you are back down to the bare glass. Thus the wax becomes inaffective very quickly. Please note that was with turtle wax and back before 1987.