Bugs on Windscreen
Since changing from a coach built (Marquis Majestic) to an A Class (Carthago Compactline), I seem to get a whole lot more bugs on the windscreen.Has the current climate resulted in an increase in insects with suicidal ambitions or is due to the airflow around the front of an A Class? It seems I'm forever cleaning the windscreen.
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Something I read the other day suggested the opposite in that the number of flying insects have diminished over the years. Having said that an A Class windscreen is pretty big so you are reducing the insect population even more! Years ago the number plate would get covered with dead insects but I have not found that to be the case recently. I have a little extending handled cleaner which has netting covered foam on one side and rubber blade on the other which does a pretty good job.
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It’s your Cathago CY. Shaped more like a mobile brick, so they don’t shoot over the top the same😂 Our Jeep has a very upright windscreen, that seems to be a bug graveyard at times👍
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We came back from Whitby across the moors yesterday via single track roads and noticed plenty of birdlife that seemed oblivious to vehicles ,on several occasions we had to stop to let them fly out of the way ,but there are very few bugs on the front of the car, would have expected there to be a lot
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It does seem to depend a lot on what you are passing. We get a lot of oil seed rape around here and when in flower your screen can get plastered as you drive by.
This year, first half of our tour in May was cool and wet and no bugs to speak of. Second half May / June, much warmer and always cleaning screen. Just had a week at Hawes in the very hot weather and only a few splatters on the journeys.0 -
I remember years ago you sometimes saw a mini perspex snowplough on the bonnets of cars which was supposed to deflect bugs off the windscreen. Trouble with the A Class is I haven't got a bonnet. Perhaps I'll drop Adrian Newey a line. He seems a wizz on vehicle aerodynamics.
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...a mobile brick?
..and you drive......an "AS clubman?" type overcab design,
aerodynamic minus the aero and dynamic....
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I imagine that would collect the bugs. Ours only has a little protrusion and most of the bugs end up under it, rather than swept up and over by the air stream.
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we do get a few bugs, but i put that down to the much larger screen.
we dont have any overcab protrusion at all, as cy mentioned, probably designed by a German Adrian Newey....
it is, in fact, very aerodynamic with very lttle wind noise even at motorway speeds...
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Awe........do I detect hurt feelings BB🤣 Or just a lack of sense of humour. Perhaps you didn’t see my smiley. No matter, we love our little Gatcombe.
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Aw, neither actually....
of course you like your van (we all do) but 'mobile brick'.....from an AS owner....?....really?
btw, smileys are a complete waste of time (until mentioned in defence of something, like 'i didnt really mean it'...)
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I am no entomologist or aerodynamacist but I think the big surface are of the windscreen is a factor. There are products which can put a layer of "polish" on the windscreen which make the bugs adhere less. The best thing is to remove as soon as possible and as David says a foam/netting sponge (on a handle for reach if necessary) works well. I use warm water but never need bug removal products.
Incidentally for those who have SEVEL based van (although not A class vans which have a custom build front panel) there is a step built into the lower front of the van specifically for windscreen cleaning. Those who have opted for a matching paint finish on this however may be reluctant to use it lest footwear should scratch the paint surface.
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🤣🤣🤣Three for you BB. Never sneer at another man’s equipment, it’s never about the size, price, shiny finish......but all about the enjoyment😎
Besides, I thought you were an AS fan, enough to join the Owners forum.....
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sorry, i thought it was you who was doing that a few post back.
....but, like me, you used a 'smiley' which makes it all better....
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there you go.yes, i learnt a lot in that forum....many similarities to CT, i felt, as just demonstrated
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Just a heads up for anyone visiting NYMoors area later in August. It won’t be bugs you have to avoid, they release all the (far too) young pheasants this month, ready for the annual shooting season. The roads were carnage in certain areas a couple of years ago, hundreds of birds dead along the roads, not a pretty sight........ The young birds have no road sense whatsoever, poor things.
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It’s hard to find a positive but being hit by a vehicle is better than someone winging them to die slowly. I struggle to believe we live in the 21st century sometimes😞
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