How to deal with morning frost on windshield

[JahJahBinks]

Now with night temperature approaching freezing, every morning on the way to work involves scraping frost off the windshield, so what can I do to make my life easier?

 

[GlendaleViper]

Move to California?

Seriously, there isn't much you can do. You can let your car idle until the heat kicks in, but please consider our already farked environment.

 

[pne]

park it in the garage..

 

[wakeride74]

Cold tap water will do the trick unless it is really cold out, don't use hot it will crack your glass!

 

[tyrion]

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Originally Posted by JahJahBinks /img/forum/go_quote.gif Now with night temperature approaching freezing, every morning on the way to work involves scraping frost off the windshield, so what can I do to make my life easier?

Move to South Florida.

 

[puiah11]

Get a car alarm with an auto starter. 20-30 min before u go, start car. Get out to car, all snow just wipes off. You'll need to turn the heat on inside car before you get out the night before.

 

[Sovkiller]

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Originally Posted by tyrion /img/forum/go_quote.gif Move to South Florida.

Not before getting a decent job first...OK???

 

[pne]

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Originally Posted by puiah11 /img/forum/go_quote.gif Get a car alarm with an auto starter. 20-30 min before u go, start car. Get out to car, all snow just wipes off. You'll need to turn the heat on inside car before you get out the night before.

you would think the high gas prices would discourage people from idling their cars for 1/2 an hour but no....

do you know the environmental damage that would cause, just because you are too lazy to use an ice scraper once a morning? The less you use your car starter the better, its faster for a car to warm up under a light load such as gentle driving, rather than sitting there idling.

 

[Samgotit]

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Originally Posted by JahJahBinks /img/forum/go_quote.gif Now with night temperature approaching freezing, every morning on the way to work involves scraping frost off the windshield, so what can I do to make my life easier?

Well Binks... this one, combined with the button thread, leads me to only one answer - Assisted Living.

 

[883dave]

You can get a windshield cover....

or as we in the north do...get up a few minutes early, get a windshield scraper and get a little exercise

 

[beerguy0]

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Originally Posted by JahJahBinks /img/forum/go_quote.gif Now with night temperature approaching freezing, every morning on the way to work involves scraping frost off the windshield, so what can I do to make my life easier?

Cover your windshield at night. Aside from that, parking in a garage is about all you can do. Or, move somewhere warmer.

It's one of those thing you just have to deal with. Fortunately, we have a garage to park our cars in at night, so I rarely have to scrape my windshield.

I actually never really minded having to scrape my windows during the winter. When it really started to bug me was spring time.

 

[Elec]

Scraper and some elbow grease. It's a pain (especially if you live in a place where it gets into the single digits in the mornings) but it works.

Otherwise you can try a winter formula wiper fluid. You get in the car, start it up, and spray/run the wipers a few times. It should melt all the frost unless it's thick, although you'll need to put the defroster on right away because some of the fluid will probably fog or crystalize shortly after you spray. Less effort than scraping but doesn't work as well. You can get heated wiper fluid kits that use the car's battery to preheat the wiper fluid for melting ice. Never tried one. Likewise, you can get cans of de-icer spray, but I have no idea how well they work.

 

[3x331m]

Use sub-zero temp. windshield wiper fluid.... Works great for me.

 

[lini]

... requires careful handling, though.

Greetings from Munich!

Manfred / lini

 

[warpdriver]

Nothing you can do except buy a nice large comfortable scraper.

Sprays, and other de-icing solutions can help a bit, but in the end you'll still need to scrape.

And please don't idle your car. It's bad for your engine (idling a cold engine without load) and bad for the environment.