Mixed feelings…the good with the bad of Jeep ownership

[Mflowers11]

I have a 4 Hour drive home today from a meeting, it’s gonna be between 75 and 80° and I’m excited to take the freedom panels off and just enjoy the ride!!!

But as excited as I am for the warm weather, I’m equally not looking forward to this brick with wheels attracting every bug within a 1 mile radius.

SPLAT….

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[ZoMojave]

I have a 4 Hour drive home today from a meeting, it’s gonna be between 75 and 80° and I’m excited to take the freedom panels off and just enjoy the ride!!!

But as excited as I am for the warm weather, I’m equally not looking forward to this brick with wheels attracting every bug within a 1 mile radius.

SPLAT….

The nature of the beast. Just think of it as a good chance to get close and personal with your JT when you get home to wash it!

 

[cafecito]

A couple weeks ago, my wife and I were driving back to Orlando from Daytona, and there's a stretch of interstate where you pass over a huge body of water (St. Johns River). And, as is typical in Florida, it just started pouring really heavily out of nowhere. Oh well, no biggie.

So we turned on the windshield wipers, and I swear to god... we saw that the raindrops were leaving really gross streaks on the windshield. Oh wait, those are bug guts...

There was probably a dozen or so bugs hitting our windshield every second going 70+ mph. I don't even know if a pressure washer with bleach will ever get rid of that completely.

 

[Tom C]

It doesn't matter what vehicle you drive. My wife's Cadillac CTS looks similar.

 

[Sandevino]

Florida in love bug mating season….

 

[Jteakus]

This is some really good stuff for the bugs coming from a Louisiana native.

Amazon.com : schaeffer’s citrol

 

[B Bedgood]

The best thing I've found for bug removal on windows is a wet used dryer sheet. It will remove the bug guts like magic. It leaves a film on the window that's easily removed with either soap and water or Windex.

 

[firemedic2714]

I second the wet dryer sheet. They're also safe for paint and plastic lenses. This is what aircraft maintenance crews use on airplanes (lexan canopies, painted aluminum nose cones, etc.). I also drop a dryer sheet in a water filled spray bottle and use that to presoak bug guts.

For normal spring/summer, between car washings windshield maintenance, I keep a bottle of Windex and a scouring pad on my garage workbench. I use it on the glass only.

 

[ShadowsPapa]

Heck try towing a vehicle on a trailer around the Mississippi in late summer and getting home to find the JT and the vehicle behind it look the same - at least the JT is easy to clean. Those plastic grills on older cars where there's 1,000 slots - not so easy to clean bugs out of.
I got a glass cleaner from the dealer that works like magic. Tried the dryer sheet bit and it just didn't work. My wife suggested we must feed our bugs something different. They eat cyanoacrylate or something.
For a while I carried a can of foaming glass cleaner - on our trip through NE and KS it worked wonders and I literally had to clean the windshield at every fuel stop.

 

[Lunentucker]

A favorite saying of mine - "It's a good thing they're not puppies"

 

[chorky]

But has anyone noticed theres way less bugs these days than 25 years ago?

 

[Mflowers11]

But has anyone noticed theres way less bugs these days than 25 years ago?

Don’t know that I’ve noticed that. Maybe they look smaller because you’re bigger! But if you’re right maybe they’ll add some to the endangered species list and not let us drive through areas to protect the locusts.

I do notice a lot that weren’t here when I was younger. Stink bugs, Japanese beetles, invasive lady bugs and box elder bugs are EVERYWHERE.

 

[chorky]

Don’t know that I’ve noticed that. Maybe they look smaller because you’re bigger! But if you’re right maybe they’ll add some to the endangered species list and not let us drive through areas to protect the locusts.

I do notice a lot that weren’t here when I was younger. Stink bugs, Japanese beetles, invasive lady bugs and box elder bugs are EVERYWHERE.

some areas have had substantially reduced populations. I recall a study done on it maybe 5 or 8 years ago but can't remember where it was from. It was interesting though when I read about that I suddenly thought (this was several years ago) about how driving around my hometown at dusk, the bug population on my windshield was half as much as I remember as a teenager. The consensus was the decline is attributed largely to pesticide and herbicide spray's for ag crops as well as increased development and reduced green space. I think that also has contributed to less native wildflowers. I find it interesting that where I live now theres even less bugs, and I live in a very very rural area. Only 15% of the county I live in is private property - the rest is state/gov land and there is no commercial ag land, what little is private property maybe has some backyard gardens. But it is also a different climate here so I dont think that is a very good comparison.

 

[Artsifrtsi]

But has anyone noticed theres way less bugs these days than 25 years ago?

That's because they are being harvested for food...

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