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

BeenThroughItAll

Tobster86 wrote: »

Quick clear windscreens fitted to Fords (the only thing I could compliment a Ford for) or old big-engined BMWs with more than one thermostat that heat up really quickly are better solutions!

Or getting up 5 minutes earlier :beer:

OddballJamie

Tobster86 wrote: »

This is an awful suggestion for the majority of people who frantically scrape away with whatever is to hand upon realising that the ice threatens to make them late for work.

Quick clear windscreens fitted to Fords (the only thing I could compliment a Ford for) or old big-engined BMWs with more than one thermostat that heat up really quickly are better solutions!

I think the patent has expired now, so hopefully more manufacturers can do this.

Just read the new Corsa has a heated screen.

Tobster86

BeenThroughItAll wrote: »

Or getting up 5 minutes earlier :beer:

If only that were so simple!

Johno100

Tobster86 wrote: »

Quick clear windscreens fitted to Fords (the only thing I could compliment a Ford for) or old big-engined BMWs with more than one thermostat that heat up really quickly are better solutions!

Yes, brilliant aren't they. Get in, start the car, scrape the side windows and by the time those are done the front and back screens are defrosted and you are ready to go.

Hedgehog99

Johno100 wrote: »

Yes, brilliant aren't they. Get in, start the car, scrape the side windows and by the time those are done the front and back screens are defrosted and you are ready to go.

I find them a bit strange to look through through - the "dots" are distracting. I'd probably get used to it if I owned one, and be glad of it if I had a daily winter de-frost to do.

Reggie_Rebel

This may be revolutionary but I put my car in the garage having taken all the old crap I no longer need down the tip.

This is double bubble in that my car doesn't vandalised by the local toe rags on their way home after half a shandy.

marleyboy

OddballJamie wrote: »

So just hot water then?

Alternatively just pour luke warm water on the screen.

Which is far quicker, easier and much more effective then hanging around in the cold waiting for hot water bottles.

cherryblossomzel

BeenThroughItAll wrote: »

"Annoying ice clouding the view from your Honda Jazz? Simply wait until you're 85 and use your hot water bottle to defrost the windscreen cheaply and quickly!"

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

That made me laugh. Mostly because I'm 35 and drive a Honda Jazz. I make fun of myself in my OAP-car all the time. At least the insurance is pretty cheap...

marleyboy

Johno100 wrote: »

Yes, brilliant aren't they. Get in, start the car, scrape the side windows and by the time those are done the front and back screens are defrosted and you are ready to go.

I dont even have to scrape the side windows on my Ford, even the wing mirrors have it. . About 30 seconds and my car windows are completely frost free.

lulu_92

But the MIL has just bought me a brand new pink ice scraper - it even has a built in light!

Worked a treat this morning