Did you know that you can also get the little concentrated dry tablets and
add water to those?

Just saying that you won't have to store any fluid afterwards if you don't
want to...just keep a 1 gallon jug somewhere to use again.

Or...just use the left-over from the 1 gallon jug to top off your fluid
levels *instead* of having to go back out and buy a whole other gallon jug
just to top off your levels.

And another thing..dude...don't wait until your fluid is starting to run out
before you fill it up...you obviously aren't checking it enough if this
happens!

Peace,
Polfus

Bad argument, since 1 gallon jug is *the smallest* amount
of washer fluid you can buy in a retail stores...

some cars do.  If they all did, then you'd be whining that it
doesn't hold a 5 gallon drum puchased at costco.

I can see you are an old fashioned guy who likes to spend time
with his car and keep the garage full of funny bottles... :-)

Good design in my opinion would be low fluid warning light
on the dashboard and reservoir big enough to hold FULL bottle
when the warning ligth comes on to minimalise required mainenance.

The only warning I get from my accord is that the stream of
water is weaker, but then I have 2-3 more attempts and it is dry.
Even then it does not hold the full bottle, which is sad... :-)

Don't get me wrong, but I am comparing this accord to my old
1995 camry, which it happens had the reservoid big enought
to hold the full gallon of fluid in one big gulp.

If your preferred method is to suck the reservoir absolutely dry before
refilling it, thus risking being without washer fluid at some point when you
really need it, then yes, I suppose you might consider it a bad design.

If, on the other hand, you do what a lot of people do and add fluid to the
reservoir periodically before it's completely dry, and then put the bottle
back in the garage for next time, then it really doesn't much matter how big
either the reservoir or the bottle is, does it?

For the second time I needed to refil washer fluid in
my 2004 accord coupe. I got the 1 gallon jug from the
store when the washer nozzles stopped delivering fluid.
Poured the bottle but before the bottle was empty
the container in the car was full and overflowing.
2-3 inches of the fluid left unused in the bottle.

Is this what you get? Or my pump is not sucking all
the fluid from the container?

Why would you design a car with a washer fluid
container just smaller than the widely available
container the fluid is sold in the stores?

Would you consider it as a bad design?