How do you de-ice your car windows.

[Chippy_Tea]

I regularly see people scraping windows in the freezing cold and wonder why they do it I have used a pop bottle full of warm (not hot) water for years and have never cracked a window, if you dribble it slowly over the windscreen once its clear it puts enough heat into the glass to stop it freezing again and allows you to drive off straight away.

How do you de-ice yours.

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[Leon103]

Just press the heated windscreen button

 

[Chippy_Tea]

Just press the heated windscreen button

My next car will have one of those as i travel early in the morning.

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[Chippy_Tea]

I have used warm (not hot) water for years and have never cracked a window,

I have just read adding a teaspoon of salt to the bottle stops it re-freezing. :thumba:

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[uDicko]

Turn car on leave it running with the air blowing on the windscreen. Give a spray of de-icer and leave it till its done.

5 - 10 mins

 

[Chippy_Tea]

Turn car on leave it running with the air blowing on the windscreen. Give a spray of de-icer and leave it till its done.
5 - 10 mins

Do you sit in the car while it warms up?

 

[uDicko]

Do you sit in the car while it warms up?

Nope sit indoors ! Either obviously works

 

[Clint]

I miss the heated screen ...I just scrape now! I will try the warm water though.

 

[Chippy_Tea]

Nope sit indoors ! Either obviously works

If someone steals it while you are sat indoors your insurance will not pay out hence the reason for the earlier question.

 

[Norfolk79]

Just press the heated windscreen button

Same. Those things rock on a cold morning.

The other option, which the house over the road do, is sit in your car with the windscreen wipers going for 10 minutes. That must damage the wiper blades you’d think?!

 

[Clint]

On a night shift a chap in work fills bottles with hot water and puts them in his car to warm it up and melt the ice....as if I could be arsed with all that!

 

[Ghillie]

Start the van, put the blowers on then give it a scrape after ten minutes. I did have de-icer spray which was great, too tight to buy more when it ran out.

If someone steals it while you are sat indoors your insurance will not pay out hence the reason for the earlier question.

My first car I used to start it and lock the door with the spare key. No fancy electronics or the like so it was an option. Different story now though for most smart vehicles.

 

[Nicks90]

Another vote for using warm water. Added bonus that it warms the glass and reduces misting up - which my Merc is absolutely terrible for!
Used to annoy the wife though as when she came out the door to go to work, the water which had run off the car on to the drive would have frozen as solid black ice!

 

[Banbeer]

My wife bought a small 12v hairdryer that she uses in our caravan(cost 6 quid I think), I use it on my windscreen(from the inside) and it only takes a few minutes, warms the car too.

 

[Saisonator]

Warm water, been doing it for years.

 

[BarnBrian]

Turn the heater on using the app on my iphone. I just love my electric car.

 

[uDicko]

If someone steals it while you are sat indoors your insurance will not pay out hence the reason for the earlier question.

It's on my drive and I can see it. But totally get your point.

I've always been told warm water would crack the screen!

 

[stigman]

Come on there must be one sad git on here who of an evening thinks ooh there's a nasty chill in the air I better check the weather, then promptly goes out with one of those windscreen protector things, in the cold I may add just so they don't have to get cold in the morning.

 

[Chippy_Tea]

I've always been told warm water would crack the screen!

Boiling water might but I have used warm water for years with no problem, I am going to add a little salt tomorrow to see if that also helps.

 

[MickDundee]

Come on there must be one sad git on here who of an evening thinks ooh there's a nasty chill in the air I better check the weather, then promptly goes out with one of those windscreen protector things, in the cold I may add just so they don't have to get cold in the morning.

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