Frosted windscreen?

BarneyBee

the best advise is to cover the car with a sheet/blanket,
you can use warm tap water to clear the screen, most modern car have laminated windscreens they will only crack if you have got damage to the windscreen already
DAMAGE TO WINDSCREENS IS NOT ALWAYS OBVIOUS!!!!

King_Nothing

Squirt of deicer, and heated screens on, and I'm ok in a couple of seconds.

If it's a particularly nasty piece of ice, warm water, and a squirt of deicer with the screens on again.

ailuro2

Before we had the Mondeo I tried different methods over the years - I found that adding water, whether it was from a jug or the windscreen washer pumps, would always freeze up when I drove off, much better to use a scraper to get rid of the ice, there's nothing left to freeze then.;)

Now we have a Peugeot 206 that has no front windscreen heaters there's a bit of parking games goes on in wintertime - whichever car is parked at the last spot on the drive is the one DH takes, then I take the other car, so I try to wangle it so the Peugeot is at the back;)

If he's on nightshift though, we use the same car, so when he brings it back warm it doesn't have time to freeze over before I leave for work. That's definitely the best method of windscreen clearing for me.:D

Nixer

Cover car the night before, de ice and scrape if forgotten to cover, possibly fairly cold water if ice is very knobbly. It's the difference between the temp of windscreen and the temp of the water, if it's too great you're at risk of cracking it. I cracked a windscreen on a hot day by washing it with water that wasn't warm enough - stupid, I should have waited until the windscreen was cooler.

Starrystarrynight

I find using a scaper leaves the screen much clearer. My OH insists on using de-icer and it never seems to do the job properly. I have a cover for the windscreen, too, but find it difficult to pull it tight enough. Often wondered if those things that cover the entire top of the car would be any good.

choc_mouse

I use cold water. It works especially well when the water in door frames has turned to ice and frozen the door shut! Most people can't start their engines until you've got entry into the car and probably don't fancy using an ice scraper on the door seals/paint work. Water is multi-purpose (or urine if you prefer).

Sagz_2

Prevention is better than cure - I spray the screen with de-icer the night before and then it only takes a little while with the demister on next morning to clear even thick ice.

sassy_one

I would never advise anyone to use cold/hot or warm water on there windscreen while it is frosted.

You risk causing serious unfix able damage to the windscreen which could resort in a complete windscreen replacement costing £££.

If you use it and have found that it's worked and not cracked/damaged your windscreen, you have got lucky, although small cracks can sometimes go undetected, however if you continue to use water either, cold, hot or warm you risk doing damage to the windscreen.

It is simply not worth the risk, unless you have won the lottery to replace a windscreen every time it's frosty!

Gloomendoom

moonrakerz wrote: »

Funny you should say that ! Ford do have the patent on the technology used in their Quickclear screens, which is why if you have a heated screen on other cars they are very expensive and very obtrusive in your field of view. Which in turn is why not many cars other than Ford offer heated screens as an almost standard fit.

Quickclear is just Ford's registered trademark. GM have their own version... Electriclear.

A replacement heated screen for a Land Rover is £130 (plus VAT). I don't regard that as very expensive.

The heating elements in my Range Rover windscreen are no more visible than those in my mother's Mondeo. Perhaps less so... because all of them still work!

Pew_Pew_Pew_Lasers!

sassy-one wrote: »

I would never advise anyone to use cold/hot or warm water on there windscreen while it is frosted.

You risk causing serious unfix able damage to the windscreen which could resort in a complete windscreen replacement costing £££.

If you use it and have found that it's worked and not cracked/damaged your windscreen, you have got lucky, although small cracks can sometimes go undetected, however if you continue to use water either, cold, hot or warm you risk doing damage to the windscreen.

It is simply not worth the risk, unless you have won the lottery to replace a windscreen every time it's frosty!

Utter nonsense.