What's your ice/snow removal strategy?

Fill empty 2 litre coke bottle with lukewarm water (same temperature as your hand)
Start engine, turn on heated seats and screens
poor water over windows + turn windscreen wipers on
get into car
realise the inside of the windscreen is also frozen
wait a few minutes for the inside to defrost, by which time the outside has refrozen.
rant to self...

eventually drive to work.
 
Walk outside onto my driveway
Start car and turn on heated screen / blowers
walk into house and have a glass of orange and maybe watch some daybreak

10 minutes later jump into car and enjoy my de-iced car

Sam
 
Pillarless doors are not good in this weather :(, took about 2/3 the journey to work before I could get my window back up properly.
 
I cant be bothered with all this scraping stuff...

Walk to car
Turn on car with full fans on hot and rear window demisters
Get DeIcer at room temp - spray car liberally
Get in car and have a kip until the car clears

...Most of the time im late for work :p
 
my car: open garage, drive out, close garage

Wifes car: water in bottle, and scraper, iced up hands, cursing me for using the garage :)


anyone use a car cover in winter?
 
Nice, I just made a thread about this ;) There is always that one person on my street who comes out in the mornings with a steaming hot kettle of water !!!
 
MilanoChris said:
Someone told me this morning that pouring water on the screen can make it weak for a short period due to the temperature change?
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If you use cold water, there is no issue.

Using boiling hot can lead to a cracking screen due to expansion. You're making a very cold item go very hot in a short period of time. Heat causes expansion and if it's too quick, the glass will crack.
 
I know hot water will break the screen, or won't do it good, just someone said cold (tap) water can also lead to issues.

I tried it this morning. We wash our milk bottles before the milkman picks them up so I took one to the car full of tap water and just poured it over the screen then put the wipers on while I got rid of the ice round the outside. It worked very well.
 
MilanoChris said:
I know hot water will break the screen, or won't do it good, just someone said cold (tap) water can also lead to issues.

I tried it this morning. We wash our milk bottles before the milkman picks them up so I took one to the car full of tap water and just poured it over the screen then put the wipers on while I got rid of the ice round the outside. It worked very well.
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Never heard of that. Odd thing to say really. You're just changing the temperature. Blowing cold air on the windscreen (which you do when you start it) offers a similar effect.
 
He said that there's still a temperature change, from (below) freezing to whatever tap water is, which makes the screen weak. While it won't crack like it does with hot water it can make more vulnerable to a stone chip causing a crack across the screen. The lad isn't one to talk bull, but I guess if he's heard it somewhere he would pass it on.
 
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