Duxback One Car Kit | Rain Repellent |Car Windscreen Treatment & Rain Ex -pellant Will treat front sides and rear glass | Last Up To 6 Months | TUV Approved

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Driving in heavy rain can be dangerous. From reduced visibility to increased stopping distances, heavy rainfall can increase your chances of having an accident on the road. Reduce your chances of running into problems during rainfall with the windscreen treatments from Halfords. A clean vehicle is after all more likely to have a longer life and a higher resale vehicle, with cleanliness keeping bodywork in tip-top condition and even ensuring the health and longevity of important internal components such as the engine. Application is also worth paying attention to. There are three options; spray-on, roll-on and applicator-applied examples. Each has its pros and cons, with spray-on options the easiest to apply but least durable and applicator examples vice versa. Rain repellents are similar to car waxes in many ways, sometimes featuring minimum temperatures and directions to apply out of direct sunlight. Longer-lasting options may also feature a curing time. Once you’ve finished, you can embrace a moist-free car interior if you decide to opt for an in-car dehumidifier. What about durability? Primarily designed to clean and protect motorcycle helmets, Vision + from Autobrite Direct is our top choice for combining a glass cleaner with a hydrophobic layer of protection. Vision + promotes some serious water beading and is perfectly safe to apply to most translucent materials, including glass, acrylic and Perspex.

A classic rain repellent, Rain-X is readily available and quite possibly the best-selling rain repellent range here in the UK. The big benefit to Rain-X is the ease of application. A simple squeeze of the orange bottle will deliver the repellent onto the foam pad, which you then pull across the windscreen, leaving a small visible streak as you do. After this, it's simply a case of leaving it for up to 10 minutes before wiping it with a microfibre towel. The results last for two months and don't leave any nasty smearing or cause juddering wipers. Tested Ryan Gilmore: An absolute pain to apply, Gtechniq G1 requires a good half days’ worth of sunshine to properly cure on the car’s windscreen. With the British weather the way it is, the application was delayed on no less than two occasions owing to approaching rain. It’s best to have a garage or at least a gazebo if you’re planning to apply this. It's a treatment that's applied to your car's glass, and as the name suggests it repels water. So when driving in the rain (at speeds above 40mph) any water blows straight off, so you can see the road ahead much better. How will it help me?

How often should you service your car?

You can choose between three options as to how much of your car is treated: just the windscreen, the windscreen and front windows, or the whole car, depending on how much coverage you want.

Tested Ryan Gilmore: Originally developed for use on motorcycle helmets, an area where there’s no wiper action to help shift water, Vision + needed to be a capable option for removing water. Now available in a larger size for cars, Vision + proved to be an outstanding option, offering excellent water beading and glass cleaning action, all from a spray that required no curing time and took a couple of seconds to apply. Tested Ryan Gilmore: A popular choice for an obvious reason, Rain-X combines cleaning and repellent at a temptingly low price. Another part of its appeal has to be the simple application process, there’s no need to buff or let the product cure, it simply needs wiping off once sprayed onto the glass. The 500ml bottle features an ergonomic trigger and delivered a neat and even misting of the product, which is wiped away without leaving any residue behind. After this, Gtechniq recommends not letting the glass get wet for 12 hours, but the end results will be 20,000 miles of hydrophobic protection, by far the best out of any rain repellents we've seen.Next up is our plastic component, which consists of all-virgin High-Density Polyethylene, or HDPE, which is the same “dairy-grade” plastic that milk jugs are made from. The all-virgin aspect of this plastic is critically important in quality control. Because where other manufacturers are using recycled plastics that make it virtually impossible to have a consistent product because of inconsistencies in their material makeup, DuxxBak products are dialed in to ensure every board is beautifully and structurally consistent in every measure. As a long-time user of Rain-X, a self-applied product that serves a similar purpose but doesn’t last anywhere near as long, I was keen to see how effective the Halfords treatment was. That explains why every window of my SAAB has now been treated, although it’s not cheap to have the concoction applied. When it was eventually sunny enough to apply, the process was straightforward but took the most time here. You’re provided with four applicator pads and really need to apply three layers to get the absolute best protection possible. You then need to apply the G2 Residue Remover (also included) to prevent streaking before leaving the whole thing to set for at least three hours. We’ve used Rain-X in the past and the results have been good. Our only criticism would be that it’s not long before it needs to be re-applied.