Removing Ice from Windscreen

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Lowejackson

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I thought I would ask before winter hits and the ice starts, what is the best way to remove ice from a windscreen. In previous years (before I discovered detailing) I used a scrapper and a de-icer spray. Is there a better way?



The car is kept outside 24/7



Steven

Alfa 164

Autoglym & Blitz
 
I used get out early and start my car. I wish I had a remote starter then (garage nowadays).



Using a plastic scraper is fine, plastic won't stratch glass. I don't use the brush side on the paint, however. A scraper with a mitt is cool, keeps hand warm. Not sure how wax reacts to propylene glycol (takes off oil so wax is probable, Klasse not sure), but as a general rule I keep most solvents away from my paint. Make sure it doesn't drip.
 
Would you believe I get ice like 10 times a year what a bummer.



Start that puppy up and let the defrost work on it. Sometimes if I am in a rush I will use the hose. Dont worry it is above 32 by sun up.



Snow I bet I could make a killing selling it here for XMAS!
 
It's not really the snow that bothers me, its the frost on the morning, which you have to clean almost every day of winter.



I live in a high morning dew area, in the winter that transulates to frost on the car, which is harder to take of then snow cause the scraper scrapes off a fingernail size amount. I use to take an old credit card and scrape. It also took a good 10 minutes by car heat melt it off. In high school I used to scrape a big hole's worth strategicly in each window. I pulled out in front of a car once, very dangerous. The alternative is to stick your head out the window as you drive :) let me tell you it's really cold and awkward.



When I lived in Chicago, it was just as cold, but no frost, so no cleaning in the morning! what a concept.
 
Guess my name,

You seem to post many comments about how much you like the south :), I say I would rather live in the cold than live in a state that is threatened with tornados all summer and has hurricanes,tropical storms, and floods wipe out an entire town. We think a horrible storm up here is one with 40 mile an hour winds.

Besides it must get boring down there wearing the same wardrobe all year round :)
 
Not many Tornadoes here.



Hurricaines once in a while.



Snow storms Never!



Yeah I like my shorts and hawaian shirts, thank you much.



Come to Bourbon street and see how the we live!



Oh and the food! Can you say yummy?
 
Why do they call windshields windscreens in the UK? Screens over here in the US have holes in them to let air in, definitely not something you would want when it is raining.
 
You crazy Americans, always changing the names of things ;) bonnets to hoods, windscreens to windshields.



But Americans do know how to clean a car and have products and techniques that are light years ahead of the stuff we have in the UK.



Steven

Alfa Romeo 164 (where windscreen wipers are called knives!)
 
Q: are they called windscreen knives? (like I need to get a new pair of knife blades for my windscreen :) ) what do you call the back windscreen?



maybe its time to go over the whole UK car and what you call the parts
 
On the Alfa Romeo parts listing, wiper blades are called knives, don’t know why but it seems the Italians have the same crazy way of changing names :p



The rear windscreen is called the rear windscreen. Another one is renaming bumpers to fenders



Steven

Alfa 164
 
Knives on a windshield(windscreen) would be great protection against the homeless people that want to clean your windshield(windscreen) for money by spitting on it and wiping it with their dirty greasy rags. :)
 
What is wrong with water? Granted Louisiana does not get frost much, but when it does, I just use a couple cups of room temperature water on the windows.



Works like a champ. Although, up north I would follow up with a quick wipe with a towel to remove extra water from the windows, so they won't freeze again.



I just hate using anything that scrapes on any part of my car.



Any comments?



Brian
 
Frost and ice are not the same. Up here in Detroit we sometimes have an inch of ice on our windshield. When it is 5 below zero with a 50 below windchill water freezes within seconds. If you pour warm or hot water on a windshield when it has been zero or below for many hours you can watch your windshield crack.
 
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