Johnnytoxic's Winter Weather Motoring Tip

Johnnytoxic

Johnnytoxic

Johnnytoxic

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OK, it's -7 outside and your just getting up for work at 7:30 for a 9am start.

Get up, go down stairs and pop the kettle on for a nice brew. Get some brekfast, have a bath and suit up for work.

Only then the brilliance happens, you go outside and find your car frosted over and you realise "OH crap, I'm gonna be late waiting for my car to warm up to get the windows clear". FEAR NOT, pop back inside the house grab that kettle that has cooled significantly from 8:00 and pour it all over your windscreens.

I tell people this tip and they all call me an idiot as warm water on a window apparently causes worse damage than a house brick being thrown at it. I call shenannigans and will continue my daily ritual.
 
I just use warm water out of the tap, not too hot to cause the windscreen cracks boiling water can be known for, and warm enough to clear my screen.
 
I just spend 5 minutes with an ice scraper and some gloves on doing it.

If I'm really late I'll do my tie etc... in the car on the way to work in traffic.
 
Rapidly heating glass from cold can and will eventually crack the windscreen, it's happened to me before and I only used lukewarm water from the tap.
 
Waste of electricity, boilng that much water when warm water out the tap will do.

Not sure that really counts as a tip, more common sense, but thanks for trying

I use the night before de icer stuff, it still frosts up but the wipers clear it or it's no effort at all withnthe scraper
 
Either:

MR2: Wake up, shower, get ready, open garage, drive to work

406: Wake up, run outside fire up car with blowers on max, shower, get ready, drive to work

Bugger this de-icing malarky!
 
I press the heated windscreen button. 60 seconds later, I give a quick flick of the winscreen wipers and away I go.
 
I'd like to be able to just pop out 10minutes earlier and leave the car running but I've heard if someone nicks you car the insurance won't pay out. Now I live in a good road and area but I'm not willing to take that chance.
 
MikeHiow said:
I press the heated windscreen button. 60 seconds later, I give a quick flick of the winscreen wipers and away I go.
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But as a consequence of this, you have to worry about rust when your car gets to 5 years old ;)
 
Conscript said:
Oh. No problem then.

Wait, what...
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Exactly.

You've got to keep your wipers on, despite a relatively dry screen and knackering your wiper blades. If you don't there's no source of heat (cold outside and no heat from inside yet), screen cools down quite quickly after being warmed by the water once you start moving - frozen water.

I left work one evening last week, car hadnt iced over so I just drove off. Squirted the washer jets to clear the salty crap from the screen, it left a nice frozen layer all over the screen - nightmare!

Bit of common sense really, ice scrapers exist for a reason - we've all got kettles but theres a reason not everyone does this, you're not exactly the first to figure out that hot water melts ice OP :p
 
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Conscript said:
Oh. No problem then.

Wait, what...
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Just do this, problem solved:

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Both of my cars have heated windscreens and one is 5 years old, the other is 10 years old - neither have any signs of rust :cool:

On a side note, before I had the luxury of heated winscreens, I'd just use a concentrated (or near-to) windscreen wash and use this.

The last time I tried warm water, it re-froze before I had a chance to put the wipers on.
 
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