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over a year ago
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Get up ten minutes earlier and put the heater/heated front screen on to do the work.
Usually clear in a couple of minutes in the Jag with the heated windscreen, oh and stick the heated seats on for good measure too, keeps the hairless girly parts warm! |
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"What is everyone using to scrape the ice off their car windows when it gets icey?
I used a store a store discount card I had in my wallet the other day but I could only get 20% off  "
I'm boring... A combination of a can of de-icer and my warm breath on the really stubborn bits...  |
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Easiest and quickest way i find is keep a plastic bottle in the kitchen cupboard. Fill it with hot water before leaving the house. Pour it over your windows and mirrors to clear them quicker than deicer or scrapers ever will. |
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By *UNKIEMan
over a year ago
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"Easiest and quickest way i find is keep a plastic bottle in the kitchen cupboard. Fill it with hot water before leaving the house. Pour it over your windows and mirrors to clear them quicker than deicer or scrapers ever will."
Excellent if you want to crack your windscreen  |
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"Easiest and quickest way i find is keep a plastic bottle in the kitchen cupboard. Fill it with hot water before leaving the house. Pour it over your windows and mirrors to clear them quicker than deicer or scrapers ever will.
Excellent if you want to crack your windscreen "
Your windscreen will endure a hell of alot more than tap hot water.
Unless I've been lucky for 20 years. |
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"Easiest and quickest way i find is keep a plastic bottle in the kitchen cupboard. Fill it with hot water before leaving the house. Pour it over your windows and mirrors to clear them quicker than deicer or scrapers ever will."
Hot water on a cold screen = crack
Also weakens it |
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"Easiest and quickest way i find is keep a plastic bottle in the kitchen cupboard. Fill it with hot water before leaving the house. Pour it over your windows and mirrors to clear them quicker than deicer or scrapers ever will.
Excellent if you want to crack your windscreen
Your windscreen will endure a hell of alot more than tap hot water.
Unless I've been lucky for 20 years."
I must be lucky as well, because hot water has never cracked my windscreen either. |
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Hot water on a windscreen is fine unless you already have a chip or crack. Unblemished, they'll be fine.
On the other hand d boiling water freezes quicker than warm water.
Oh,and I'm sure I read that leaving the car on to defrost while you wait indoors is illegal.
I miss my heated windscreen. Ford patent will have run out now so most new cars should have something similar these days.
While I'm slumming it in a Peugeot I use my scraper with integrated glove. Winner.
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I start the car and sit and cry in the drivers seat, sobbing how cold my toes are. I turn the blowers in to dry my face. After 10 mins the window clears. It works for me. |
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"Easiest and quickest way i find is keep a plastic bottle in the kitchen cupboard. Fill it with hot water before leaving the house. Pour it over your windows and mirrors to clear them quicker than deicer or scrapers ever will.
Excellent if you want to crack your windscreen
Your windscreen will endure a hell of alot more than tap hot water.
Unless I've been lucky for 20 years.
I must be lucky as well, because hot water has never cracked my windscreen either. "
Me too as it’s all I’ve ever used on every car. Refuse to use de-icer but too impatient to wait for it to warm up. Only use slightly warm water though never hot!! |
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"I use water as I've found it clears quicker than deicer. Lukewarm water only as I have seen a neighbour smash their screen with what must have been almost boiling water. "
Visions of clouds of steam coming from his kettle |
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