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

Strider590

BeenThroughItAll wrote: »

You probably would, actually. Hot drinks promote greater sweating, and therefore cooling via evaporation (unless in 100% humidity).


Why do you think Bedouin drink tea?

Raising your core temperature in order to cool yourself down?

That's illogical.

OddballJamie

wba31 wrote: »

Ive not measured my garage and car, but if i got the car in the garage, im not convinced id get out the car unless i climbed through the boot... and i dont have the largest of cars...

I've measured the door on mine and I could just squeeze in. However the car is a three door, so I would have to sleep in it. The hot bottle would be needed then.

OddballJamie

bod1467 wrote: »

Perhaps not.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quickclear

But Ford cars seemed to be the only ones with this type of front windscreen clearing mechanism for a lot of years.

Wiki isn't the most reliable of sources.

Ford developed the patented Quickclear system 26 years ago, which uses a mesh of very thin heating wires embedded between two layers of windscreen glass to provide rapid de-icing and de-fogging.

http://www.ford.co.uk/experience-ford/AboutFord/News/CompanyNews/2011/Frozen-Windscreens

bod1467

Strider590 wrote: »

Raising your core temperature in order to cool yourself down?

That's illogical.

It might seem that way, Mr. Spock, but it's true.

Gloomendoom

OddballJamie wrote: »

Wiki isn't the most reliable of sources.


http://www.ford.co.uk/experience-ford/AboutFord/News/CompanyNews/2011/Frozen-Windscreens

Ford's patent wasn't for electrically heated windscreens themselves, which have been around for donkey's years, it was for a refinement in the manufacturing process which ensured that all the heating elements receive equal current even after the windscreen was bent into a curved shape during manufacture.

Electrically heated, glass vision unit US 4743741 A

The fact that many people incorrectly believe that Ford invented and patented the electrically heated windcreen and is testament to the skill of Ford's marketing team and the failings of those of other manufacturers like Land Rover etc.

Perhaps a bit unfair as Ford did bring the technology to the masses.
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OddballJamie

Their patent must've been fairly decent otherwise all the other car manufacturers would've copied it previously. Only recently have the likes of Vauxhall done their own.

BeenThroughItAll

Strider590 wrote: »

Raising your core temperature in order to cool yourself down?

That's illogical.

Whatever you believe, it is science.


http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/a-hot-drink-on-a-hot-day-can-cool-you-down-1338875/?no-ist

Gloomendoom

OddballJamie wrote: »

Their patent must've been fairly decent otherwise all the other car manufacturers would've copied it previously. Only recently have the likes of Vauxhall done their own.

GM actually used a different system years ago called Electriclear. It tended to make the windscreen go orange with time though.

As long as you don't need to bend a complex curve in to the glass or don't mind the bus bars showing (like on the Monte Carlo Minis) you wouldn't have had to worry about the Ford patent.

almillar

This is just an assumption, not fact, but Land Rover have that front windscreen clearing because they were owned by Ford at one point? Just like BMW grabbed lots of Land Rover stuff when they bought them?

Gloomendoom

almillar wrote: »

This is just an assumption, not fact, but Land Rover have that front windscreen clearing because they were owned by Ford at one point? Just like BMW grabbed lots of Land Rover stuff when they bought them?

A reasonable assumption but Ford bought them long after they started offering heated screens as an option.