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Don't scrape your windscreen to clear frost...

njb783 · 2015-01-07 14:21:04

Instead, 10 minutes before you need to see through the windscreen, place one or two (to clear passenger's view and the driver's wider view) hot water bottles inside, on the dashboard (what is called the scuttle, in some circles). Hot water bottles WITHOUT COVERS....you want them to quickly warm the air under the glass.…

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OddballJamie Posts: 2,660 Forumite

19 January 2015 at 3:07PM

Marktheshark wrote: »

I fill the watering can with like warm water and rinse the ice off.
Despite the old wives tales, in 35 years of doing this the windscreen has never cracked.

I did this for years with a part boiled kettle until I got a cover.

Although this morning I had ice on the inside, I'm thinking something to do with the cover. Gonna pick up a flask and go back to the old way for a bit.

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