How do you de-ice your car....

[BO55 VXR]

Simple question really....

a) Scraper
b) De-icer
c) Garaged
d) Warm water
e) Internal heate
f) Wife/Husband/Kids

[slinky]

Warm (and only just warm) water...

[bovered79]

Chisel......

[Paul-C]

For many years I have cringed watching people throw hot water onto their frozen screens and often wondered if they ever cracked. This morning my next door neighbour came out with a kettle. I told him it was a bad idea but he emptied the contents on his Merc screen saying it wasn't too hot. It didn't just crack, it exploded! I didn't laugh. Honestly.


Well only when I got back inside

[slinky]

I use warm water, not hot... I've seen first hand what a wine glass will do, don't particularly want my screen doing that

[BigNige]

I just scrape and then heat from the inside.

Or if I take the Scorpio, I use the heated screen.

Which is nice.

[BO55 VXR]

BigNige said:

I just scrape and then heat from the inside.

Or if I take the Scorpio, I use the heated screen.

Which is nice.

Yeah, my Mundano has one of those... best gadget on the car...

[AM04ARO]

Before the Monaro I used to heat from the inside, Now tho I scrape and de ice as the neighbours hate the noise......

[anonymous-user]

Well, I've always heated from the inside - but I'm finding that the Monaro is a bit on the cr#p side at doing this so have had to resort to scraping.....

[GreenV8S]

1KW heater running for an hour before I go outside, it isn't just defrosted it's nice and cosy inside. Getting in for the trip home is a nasty cold shock!

[eliot]

I think you will find even chucking cold water straight out the tap will do.

[barking]

Pre-emptive strike with de-icing fluid the night before helps, unless precipitation spoils the effect.

[Mattt]

Tonight I got back to my car, thought the screen was a bit dirty, so fired the washer jets - the bloody water froze up on my (as of then) clear screen!

[ringram]

Deicer works ok... when I can find it. Otherwise the emergency credit card works well.

[Mattt]

Doesn't De-Icer corrode the paint?

[Paul.H.]

...is this how you do it?

http://s80.photobucket.com/albums/j16

[stigcv8]

where is "the missus" option?

[wayne marsh]

Minus 4 this morning so ran the car for 10-minutes. Got in it was lovely and warm, but drove 200-yeards down the road and it froze over again. The heater on my car seems next to useless and the air con does seem that much better.

[The Jackel]

Garaged - The wife has to defost hers to move it off the drive so I can get mine out (hehehehe)

[Ston]

Yeap, garaged too.

But I use the same method as above, lukewarm water... does the trick nicely