Warning on Ice/Snow Scrapers!

[pcv8]

To prevent leaving nasty scratches on your pride and joys paintwork, get a new ice/snow scraper now or check the one you already have.

There was a 0.5mm nick on the middle of the rubber blade of my icebreaker. Scraped the snow off the boot yesterday and ended up with a few bad scratches before i realised it wasn't a line of water as i initially thought!

I replaced it the same day and tested the new one no problem.

I was suprised that a bit of rubber could be so aggressive!
Hope i can polish out the damage.

Thought it a good idea to let you know beforehand so anybody that reads this will avoid doing the same.

[V8 EOL]

Sorry to hear about that...

Just out of curiosity, why did you scrape the paintwork? Surely anything you use except the recommended woollen mittens through 2 buckets is going to leave at the least some swirls!?

My windscreen barely gets 10cm scraped away before I start off...

[V6 JDT]

pcv8 said:

To prevent leaving nasty scratches on your pride and joys paintwork, get a new ice/snow scraper now or check the one you already have.

There was a 0.5mm nick on the middle of the rubber blade of my icebreaker. Scraped the snow off the boot yesterday and ended up with a few bad scratches before i realised it wasn't a line of water as i initially thought!

I replaced it the same day and tested the new one no problem.

I was suprised that a bit of rubber could be so aggressive!
Hope i can polish out the damage.

Thought it a good idea to let you know beforehand so anybody that reads this will avoid doing the same.

Try not to do what PCV8 did. Snow and ice are full of contaminants that will scratch your paintwork if you scrape it off. If you are going to use a blade on the paintwork to get rid of water, use a silicon one!