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Rear window demister repair

Discussion in 'Gen 2 Prius Care, Maintenance and Troubleshooting' started by Tapash, Feb 10, 2018.

  1. Tapash

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    Recently few lines of the rear window demister lines stopped working. I may have damaged the circuit while cleaning the window. Can anyone suggest a way to fix it please?
     
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    Many thanks. does the colour of the paste make difference? I found on ebay in silver colour, but on my demister it seems black/golden colour.
     
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    It would only matter if you wanted to have a working demister/defroster or not ;)
     
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    You're usually not using it to replace any significant length of the heating trace, but just to paint over a little spot where the trace got cut. Nobody's going to look at it closely enough to notice whether the color matches, and all that really matters is that the paint conducts. (If you were going to replace any significant length of the trace, you'd have to get the resistance and heat transfer capacity right, but that's just not what you're doing when painting over a small break). So, you don't have to stress over it ... it's easy, and works.

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