Fighting Frost

Talking about garages... Is this really what modern homes are doing? -

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I mean, thats obviously not going to get a car in there!!! :confused:
 
You may laugh, but I have had to do whats posted in #34, and then tell the driver "slow, left a bit, left a bit.." after he braked during a blizzard and the snow from his roof piled onto the windscreen. :D
 
Talking about garages... Is this really what modern homes are doing? -

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I mean, thats obviously not going to get a car in there!!! :confused:

My garage is 2.4 metres wide....the same size as a standard parking space.

I really want to put the car in it, which I can do, but it's such a faff doing it carefully and then having to climb out that I don't bother :(
 
If my car's not in the garage for some reason, then it's a jug/bottle of slightly warm water - in my house, filling a 2 litre bottle/jug with the hot tap in the kitchen (when it's not been run) gives just enough mix of hot/cold water to make it warm, but not hot.

Unlock car, start it, pour water over front window, immediately switch on wipers. Same on back window. The rest then gets poured over the side windows and door mirrors.

Job done in about 30 seconds.
 
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What? No?

I'm talking about parking in a garage the same width as a parking space. The garage has walls...a parking space does not.

We were making the same point then. I read your reply in the context that you were suggesting the garage space would be big enough.
 
I like my rubber seals.

Also it still needs wiping from side windows so you may aswell just use water and a squeegy. If you use a spray can deicer you get cold hands or a soggy finger tip anyway.
 
Park it really close to the wall, don't get ice on the screen unless it's properly arctic. It's frequently frozen in the car park after work though, in which case spray some de-icer on it and drive off a few seconds later.
 
Wont that crack the cold windows?

Maybe if you were to pour boiling water onto it.

However - it only needs to be lukewarm. If you put your finger into it and it's not cold, and it's not hot, then that's fine.

Or, the easier thing is to fill a bottle when you get in at night, and leave it inside by the front door, or next to your keys. When you go out, grab it. This will then be a usable temperature.
 
Frost isn't an issue for me, it's the windows steaming up the second I get in the car and taking forever to clear (non A/C). Highly annoying. If I wipe the screen with anything to clear it, then it just leaves a residue that's even worse and then it steams up again after until a touch of heat is coming from the heaters.
 
Sounds like you need to give your interior a good drying out to see if it helps. Heaters on, windows down a crack to let the vapour out the car instead of just moving about the inside and getting worse.
 
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