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De-Icing your car
- Thread starter Napper
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Captain Haddock
Active member
Cool - away in no time. Meanwhile I can pass you 30 seconds later in my warm car whilst you are shivering and shaking like a pissing dog
...and then Brovion comes along from further up the road another two minutes later and knocks Gwylan flying into a ditch.
I, on the other hand, will not pass you by as I wake up late, have a car in the garage (and use the luke warm water express system if car's out the garage for some reason) and stay off the road because of Brovion anyway!
dougdeep
New member
I wish my car had a cab heater like my lorry, it stays at the right temperature night and day.
- Aug 8, 2005
- 27,230
With you on that. Why bother scraping, although this morning my son was getting impatient so scraped half of it.
Captain Haddock
Active member
I've heard about them things....I want one too!
A couple of minutes moving snow about with a credit card.............. Oh yes.
Cool - away in no time. Meanwhile I can pass you 30 seconds later in my warm car whilst you are shivering and shaking like a pissing dog
Shivering? Cycling's warm work, I'm rarely cold on a bike.
But as DRF says, it's the frozen puddles that you have to watch out for - coming down the hills in Coldean can be a bit hairy.
Djmiles
Barndoor Holroyd
Not actually sure whether you're being serious!
Midikilledmydog
New member
- Aug 20, 2006
- 142
If anyone had made their way past my gates, up the drive and across the quad to get to where I park my car, they would probably have been popped by one of my people with a shotgun for trespassing before they had the chance to slip on the ice I had left.
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Jeez! Two minutes on the phone to a company, and they come and charge you to scrape it?
clippedgull
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clippedgull
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Midikilledmydog
New member
- Aug 20, 2006
- 142
Yeah I ain't computer literate, so f***ing what geek
Clothes Peg
New member
- Mar 3, 2007
- 2,305
For the fashion conscious of you, Tesco now stock a scented pink de-icer. Cost £1.79 and smells like a cheap tart who's been on the Gin.
I do find that my remote central locking doesn't work through iced up / condensation covered windows so I have to scrape a hole in a window with my hands before I can unlock the car to get the scraper out.
I do find that my remote central locking doesn't work through iced up / condensation covered windows so I have to scrape a hole in a window with my hands before I can unlock the car to get the scraper out.
Another Berkshire Seagull
Well-known member
Have to go back into the house with the kettle tho :-(
Cian
Well-known member
You're "computer literate" enough to copy and paste, yet haven't got enough general cop on to realise that people would notice you copying something from a page previous.... hmm...
countrygull
Active member
I too used the warm water treatment this morning. Unfortunately, between applying the warm water and starting the car, I took the kettle back into the house - and got distracted by a hot cup of coffee and the cricket. In that ten minutes, the warm water had frozen far more solidly than the original ice. So I warmed up some more water - poured it over again - jumped in - and before I'd got 100 yards, it had refrozen, leaving me stranded waiting for the heater to kick in!!!