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The inside and outside of the windscreen is spotless so no worries there.
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wife's x type has it and to start with you find it slightly irritating and worry that you're going to keep noticing it...
in very quick time you don't notice.
i regularly flit between my car (without one) and hers and don't notice any difference now
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Any uncorrected eyesight problems may cause an "effect"
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After a long time I've finally got used to driving the Transit connect van at work with one of these blasted windscreens in. For as long as I can remember it always gave me a headache on any journey lasting longer than ½ hour. Still hate driving the thing at night as the lines in the screen are highlighted by headlights from oncoming traffic and street lights.
No chance keeping the screen clean as it's used by more than one person and you can guarantee someone will use the back of their hand / sleeve to wipe the morning mist off the inside of the screen making a huge smeary mess.
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It's like a winscreen peppered with tiny surface chips from years of spray-bourne sand and grit.
It doesn't bother you most of the time, but in certain lighting conditions it becomes noticeable, and then your brain 'tunes into it' with disdain and this can mean that you increasingly notice it and are increasing irritated by it.
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After a long time I've finally got used to driving the Transit connect van at work with one of these blasted windscreens in.
I've no problem with Q/C screens with 12 years in Mondeos and 2.5 years in SWMBO's Focus - they're great. I just wonder if, in a bigger van, you are sitting further away from the screen and the wires feature more within your depth of focus.
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I hate them
Wont ever have a ford that has one fitted.
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I love them.
But only on a frosty morning.
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I love them too. Very useful from September through to April - on any day when it's liable to misting when first getting in. I was never bothered by the wires at all.
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Count me as a fan too. As mentioned above, the key to invisible wires is a spotless windscreen, particularly on the inside.
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"Has anyone who has driven a Ford Focus II experienced additional dazzle/glare from others vehicles head lights/fog lights and street lighting as a result of the heating element inside the Quickclear windscreen ?"
Yes, and that's precisely why I'd never have one.
If you spend a minute scraping (not spraying de-icer) with a decent scraper, the windscreen is dry and there's nothing to refreeze. Far rather have that than those awful lines.
Heated mirrors on the other hand... wouldn't be without them now!
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Heated mirrors on the other hand... wouldn't be without them now
Ah the Touran ones are so powerful, the water on the mirror glass *steams*
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Wouldn't be without it. I only wish my works van had one too. Seems to me that the feature is like Marmite, you either love it or you hate it!!
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I love the heated screen on my Mondeo and I never notice the elements, no matter what the conditions. SWMBO on the other hand has weak eyesight, and complains that they are a distraction. So possibly it is all down to strength of vision.
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I have had my current Mondeo for just over 3 years and the Q/C screen has never bothered me. For the first few minutes I could see it but after that regardless of time of day/year not a problem. And no need to say why it is good in the winter months.
I wear glasses for short sitedness and even got a renewed prescription recently (sunglasses(prescription) broken in my Italian car accident).
Maybe other glasses wearers will agree, but if i put on my glasses with marks/dust/etc. I quickly see beyond and through the "marks". Try to always have them clean but sometimes you later realise marks etc. and you were not affected. Surely the heating element in Fords not that intrusive for us?
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had one for a year on a mondeo
never disturbed me once.
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I've had 3 Fords (including 1999 and 2003 Foci) and never had a problem. In fact I would hate to have to go back to having a car that didn't have one. The speed at which they demist/defrost/ melt snow is briliiant. Not having one would be like going back a decade of automotive technology.
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I just wonder if, in a bigger van, you are sitting further away from the screen and the wires feature more within your depth of focus.
Waino, talking of Focus, the same applies whenever I've driven one of those with one of these horrid windscreens, so it can't be a 'distance away from the windscreen' thing.
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