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De-Icing your car



Fungus

Well-known member
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May 21, 2004
7,160
Truro
I just put my cars in the garage.
 




gjh1971

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May 7, 2007
2,251
Just make sure the air conditioning is left on all night, bingo, the inside is as cold as the outside, no frozen windscreen
 


Captain Haddock

Active member
Aug 2, 2005
2,130
The Deep Blue Sea
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

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May 9, 2004
37,732
SUNNY SEAFORD
I wish my car had a cab heater like my lorry, it stays at the right temperature night and day.
 


Marc

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Jul 6, 2003
25,267
I wait 'til the sun/day gets warm enough for it to melt by itself...THEN I get up for work :thumbsup:
 




Giraffe

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Aug 8, 2005
27,242
I start the engine 5mins before I am ready to leave, turn the heaters on full blast.
No need to scrap the windscreen and the car is nice and warm !!

With you on that. Why bother scraping, although this morning my son was getting impatient so scraped half of it.
 








Gwylan

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Jul 5, 2003
31,836
Uffern
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
Dec 1, 2005
12,064
Kitchener, Canada
Just make sure the air conditioning is left on all night, bingo, the inside is as cold as the outside, no frozen windscreen

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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f*** me are you an American werido
 








clippedgull

Hotdogs, extra onions
Aug 11, 2003
20,789
Near Ducks, Geese, and Seagulls
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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f*** me are you an American werido

:eek::eek::eek::eek:

Word for word :glare:
 






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.
 










countrygull

Active member
Jul 22, 2003
1,114
Horsham
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!!!
 


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