How to de-ice a car

[john75]

Came down this morning and found my car covered in ice

www.wimp.com/iced/

[richie_few]

did you try running the engine for a few.............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................days!!!!

[BliarOut]

Is that a Trabby in there? Always knew the heaters were marginal

[love machine]

Methanol.

[bigee]

Technique i have used for years,,take one plastic bottle,fill with hot(not boiling!)water from the tap,warm hands on it whilst pouring over car windows!Works fantastically,no cost and can snigger at everyone else scraping away.

[Nevin]

BliarOut said:

Is that a Trabby in there? Always knew the heaters were marginal

Looks like a Volga. There were plenty like this round my way last winter. People would just abandon them all winter and only run them again when the summer came.

[Balmoral Green]

I just start the car and leave it running for ten minutes, locked up with the spare key. Neighbours chip away with scrapers and de-icer, very puzzling, its not as if its a dodgy area with a risk of it getting nicked.

[The DJ 27]

Never understand people who use scrapers, when you can buy a bottle of spray for a quid that will more than likely last all winter, and do the job on all four windows in under a minute. Unless Britain is full of secret ice masochists or sumthing

[hedders]

I have remote engine starting on mine, I just press the button on my keyfob ten minutes before i leave the house ...Luxury!

[Lois-PIE]

Mine was actually frozen on the inside the other evening!!!
I use a mix of scraper and de-icer. Don't like using the de-icer too much as I heard it rotts the rubber.

Getting some covers though for when I have to leave at 6.15 am to get to work!

[cosmoschick]

bigee said:

Technique i have used for years,,take one plastic bottle,fill with hot(not boiling!)water from the tap,warm hands on it whilst pouring over car windows!Works fantastically,no cost and can snigger at everyone else scraping away.

[mybrainhurts]

[2 Smokin Barrels]

I'd be holding my tackle too if I were next to that!

[trooperiziz]

bigee said:

Technique i have used for years,,take one plastic bottle,fill with hot(not boiling!)water from the tap,warm hands on it whilst pouring over car windows!Works fantastically,no cost and can snigger at everyone else scraping away.

I just open the garage and drive off

[paolow]

99% of my neighbours keep a load of old crap in the garage and then spend ten mins scraping the ice off their cars which sleep outside. crazy.

[wedg1e]

Ford Transit Connect. Heated screen, heated mirrors, heated washer jets. Job done.

[Liszt]

Engine on, heated seat on, heated rear window on, heated screen on, temp on climate to max., get kids in car, get kids strapped in, seatbelt on, seatbelt off, get kids stuffed toys from house, seatbelt on, threaten kids with imminient death if they don't shut up, and we're off, toasty warm and miserable as sin.

[pdV6]

cosmoschick said:

bigee said: Technique i have used for years,,take one plastic bottle,fill with hot(not boiling!)water from the tap,warm hands on it whilst pouring over car windows!Works fantastically,no cost and can snigger at everyone else scraping away.

Look really silly at the end of the day when car is frozen worse than before as all the lovely warm water has worked its way into your door seals & locks and you now can't get in and have no access to warm water...

[billb]

had a ford fusion hire car for a while which had heating elements in the screen which were amazing. prob was once it had finished you had to drive around looking out of chicken mesh all the time so still not the best solution!

[titiany]

Liszt said:

Engine on, heated seat on, heated rear window on, heated screen on, temp on climate to max., get kids in car, get kids strapped in, seatbelt on, seatbelt off, get kids stuffed toys from house, seatbelt on, threaten kids with imminient death if they don't shut up, and we're off, toasty warm and miserable as sin.

please make me never have babies...