defroster on high. You want to melt the ice at the windshield interface, then slide the whole thing off.
dullard
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Simple answer: if there is 1" of ice on the windshield, don't drive. The roads will be a horrible hazzard, if you can even get out onto them with a much heavier car (ice on the places you didn't scrape) and no traction.
There is almost nothing you need to do today that is worth losing your life and/or car. Tomorrow, you'll be fine.
<- Dullard always saves one vacation day for days like that. Yet no employer has ever charged it yet even when I don't go in.
There is almost nothing you need to do today that is worth losing your life and/or car. Tomorrow, you'll be fine.
<- Dullard always saves one vacation day for days like that. Yet no employer has ever charged it yet even when I don't go in.
Table salt
Seriously
Had close to 2" build up here and table salt knocked it down in 15 minutes.
Seriously
Had close to 2" build up here and table salt knocked it down in 15 minutes.
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as others have said, it doesn't really matter how thick the ice is (within reason) as you don't really have to go through it. Put the defrost on high, melt the lower part against the windshield and it will come off easily in big chunks.
This isn't rocket science people...sometimes we really overthink these things.
This isn't rocket science people...sometimes we really overthink these things.
"Ice Scrapers" work really well. Once side is for gouging 3 or 4 spots into the thick ice. the flat blade is for cleaning up the window after most of it is gone. Personally, I de-iced my door, got the majority of it off, then let my defrost run for half an hour.
I think most of you haven't spent much time in super bad climates. If you are say leaving from work, and you just got hit with an ice storm that leaves your car so frozen that it takes even 20 minutes to open the door...who has time to wait 30 minutes for the defroster to do the job? Hell, getting to a point where you can push it off is hard as hell cause it's thicker near where the windshield meets the metal.
Plus you usually only have your ice scraper and nothing else. If veggie oil really does work that would be cool cause you can keep that in your trunk. I wouldn't mind hearing about this. Just helped a 33 yr old friend by telling her about using cat litter under the tires for traction that she never heard about before. so you can always learn new stuff!
Getting the car running and the defroster on high is a definite. Plus, getting to a point where you can rip big chunks off..a major bonus. Now, how do you get to that point? Even with super thick scrapers you can still break them jabbing at the ice. I always kept de-icer in my trunk and used a bunch near the bottom of the window where the heater air makes it's first contact with the window. Then proceed from there.
lastly, I took the option of moving to a climate where I don't have to worry about cleaning inches of ice off my car.
Plus you usually only have your ice scraper and nothing else. If veggie oil really does work that would be cool cause you can keep that in your trunk. I wouldn't mind hearing about this. Just helped a 33 yr old friend by telling her about using cat litter under the tires for traction that she never heard about before. so you can always learn new stuff!
Getting the car running and the defroster on high is a definite. Plus, getting to a point where you can rip big chunks off..a major bonus. Now, how do you get to that point? Even with super thick scrapers you can still break them jabbing at the ice. I always kept de-icer in my trunk and used a bunch near the bottom of the window where the heater air makes it's first contact with the window. Then proceed from there.
lastly, I took the option of moving to a climate where I don't have to worry about cleaning inches of ice off my car.
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Once the defroster has been on for about 10 minutes, a GOOD scraper should be able to be used to start leveraging off small chunks. Start chipping away on the lower windshield where the surface is being heated initially from the defroster.
If you take a bath towel and lay it across the windshield at night, it will work just like the cardboard trick, but easier to get off and the moisture will not cause problems.
If there is some wind around, use the wipers to hold the towel.
If you take a bath towel and lay it across the windshield at night, it will work just like the cardboard trick, but easier to get off and the moisture will not cause problems.
If there is some wind around, use the wipers to hold the towel.
Get a snowbrush with a telescoping handle and a ice scraper end on it. Less painful than the little handheld ones.
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