They live amongst us!

[Geoffcapes]

Just looking out the window and saw this car creeping along the my road.

If you can’t see. Wait for your windscreen the clear.

Apologies for the poor pic. But you get the picture.

[andy43]

Modern diesel? It’ll be warmed up within 10 miles, no problem. We had a 2018 VW diesel and I used to drive that on the rev limiter for the first couple of miles in the winter. Bobble hat essential.

[Deranged Rover]

andy43 said:

Modern diesel? It ll be warmed up within 10 miles, no problem. We had a 2018 VW diesel and I used to drive that on the rev limiter for the first couple of miles in the winter. Bobble hat essential.

Er....that's not really the point. And I pity the poor sods who buy your cars when you've finished with them if you treat them like that.

I like winter as it enables me to see just how many really good drivers there are out there. You know, the ones that are SO good that they have no need to look in the mirror and therefore have no need to demist their rear windscreen, or use the rear wiper.

I'm quite envious, to be honest.

[James_N]

a bottle of warm water and you are away in less than 5 mins. Not sure why people drive like this!

[Geoffcapes]

James_N said:

a bottle of warm water and you are away in less than 5 mins. Not sure why people drive like this!

This was condensation on the inside!

[CMTMB]

I see this regularly with parents running late for the school run, driving along with next to zero visibility with kids everywhere.

[vikingaero]

That's fine. They can see out the bottom 10% of the windscreen!

[andy43]

Deranged Rover said:

andy43 said:

Modern diesel? It ll be warmed up within 10 miles, no problem. We had a 2018 VW diesel and I used to drive that on the rev limiter for the first couple of miles in the winter. Bobble hat essential.

Er....that's not really the point. And I pity the poor sods who buy your cars when you've finished with them if you treat them like that.

Sorry not sorry.
That's the only diesel I've had and it was a hateful pile of crap in every single way.
Petrol, hybrid and electric actually seem to warm up.

[IJWS15]

Easy solutions
- heated windscreen
- electric heater in car for 10 minutes before you leave
- Kenlowe hotstart - are they still available?

Most folks CBA, like phone use there are not enough policemen

[AB]

This is one of the beauties of EV. Either set a timer or use the app when you wake up. Warm and de-misted/iced car when you need to leave.

[Konan]

andy43 said:

Modern diesel? It ll be warmed up within 10 miles, no problem. We had a 2018 VW diesel and I used to drive that on the rev limiter for the first couple of miles in the winter. Bobble hat essential.

Had that with a MK1 Octavia. And then, when it was managing to blow warm-ish air, the blower on max was about as effective as most cars in minimum and it directed most of the airflow to the passenger side.

[Heaveho]

Heated screen, door mirrors and washer jets on my Ford Connect. It's a thing of many wonders.

[carguy45]

My wife's auntie - who, to be frank, is a complete idiot - bought a relatively newish 1yr old Toyota Yaris a few years ago. A couple of weeks into ownership, word was going round the family that something had happened with the car and she was handing it back to the local dealer. Apparently she had arrived home in a state one night, complaining that she had nearly crashed into multiple cars because the window was so misted up she couldn't see, and there was a fault with the heater so it wouldn't demist, and she nearly lost her life, and she didn't want it any more and yada yada yada. Always dramatics.

Aware of numerous previous examples of her stupidity, my immediate response was to ask why she didn't just pull in, but no-one seemed to have an answer.

We live in a rural area where everyone knows everyone, and as my family run a car business I happen to know a number of the staff at the Toyota dealership. I got chatting to the guys in the service dept on my next visit and they confirmed she had been back in with the car, they had checked the heater system and could find no faults at all. After some further investigation that Holmes would be proud of, finding out what road she had been on, and some weather checks of the date in question, it transpired the imbecile had been driving in heavy fog. They truly do live among us.

[Penny Whistle]

AB said:

This is one of the beauties of EV. Either set a timer or use the app when you wake up. Warm and de-misted/iced car when you need to leave.

Possibly true for modern EVs, but older ones might not even have an app (MG5 for example)

[CT05 Nose Cone]

Heaveho said:

Heated screen, door mirrors and washer jets on my Ford Connect. It's a thing of many wonders.

Although as I found out the hard way last week, not much help if it's so cold the screen wash has frozen over

[WH16]

CT05 Nose Cone said:

Although as I found out the hard way last week, not much help if it's so cold the screen wash has frozen over

Where do you live, Antarctica? Rain-X screen wash freezes at -15.

[parabolica]

I have close, older family members who firmly believe you don't need AC or air circulation on in the winter "because it's already cold" and don't understand why they can't see out their windscreen.

[CrgT16]

AC also works as a dehumidifier so it’s helpful in clearing windscreen.

[Supersam83]

At the moment I'm driving a 2017 Jaguar XF which can be pre-heated via the Jaguar app.

But if you forget to pre-heat it, it has a heated front windscreen which takes probably 1 minute to clear.

Also has a heated steering wheel and heated seats which is great during the winter months!

[fooman]

I think we're allowed to be annoyed by people that do this and set off with at most a letterbox size hole cleared, until they turn a corner into the sun and grind to a halt as they can't now see anything.