To think pouring water on your icy car is just selfish?

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Just fell on my face outside a neighbour who must have done this early morning.

So a stream of ice running across the pavement to the road which I didn't see

I fell hard. Am OK but if I were elderly or more fragile I could have bad injuries.

At least salt the pavement after!

How can you NOT realise this? Really?

Oh shut up. It’s that kind of response that makes people nervous to post on here and makes us look like nasty twats. They joined the conversation and now know something they hadn’t considered before and will change what they do and you turn on them like that? Totally unnecessary.

My NdN did this when i was pregnant with DD1 and i went flying and had to go to hospital for checks and an anti D injection.

Then when pregnant with DD2, having moved house and a new NdN, they crashed into my car (funnily enough no where near our houses!) And had to do the same re checks and Anti D!

Am avoiding NdNs in future pregnancies!

I posted on our local FB group "thanking" the fuckwit that did this at the top of our very steep road, causing a sheet of ice. I got a bit of verbal from the culprit....until a load of locals piled on him! Needless to say, I saw him with a scraper this morning :o

What I dont understand is why anyone would do it when it is very very likely to cause you a cracked windscreen. Going from ice cold to hot to cold again in such a short space of time is a really fucking stupid thing to do, unless you own an Autowindscreens franchise.......

Surely hot water + frozen windscreen = cracked windscreen?
Maybe on old models definitely not on new ones.

I too do this. I have an hour commute at 6am so not keen on spending 15 mns defrosting when thus will likely add another 15mns stick in traffic but as its been said, the cat is parked on the road and the water is minimal just under where the car was which pedestrians would have no reason to be.

I hadn’t thought of this either.

@CarolDanvers very well said. I really don't dare post a pout anything serious. Some of the replies can be so savage and uncalled for.

Move & live near the sea the salt in the air is a natural defence against ice until it gets tooooo cold

I literally never thought of this until now.

Isn’t putting hot water on a feeezing windscreen asking for a crack?

I never put water on my car, just use a scraper and heat from the car.

Also a question, how do you know for sure that's the reason for the ice? If it rains and the freeze, the roads and pavements will be icy anyway. You should be careful when walking in these conditions regardless.

Kazzyhoward, using hot water can cause your windscreen to crack. It's safer and easier to use a scraper.

I've been using "warm" water for 35 years - not cracked anything yet. All that is needed is common sense. Of course boiling hot water may cause a crack - that's why you don't use it straight out of the kettle/hot tap. I use half a kettle, half cold, half hot.

if its on your own driveway with lukewarm water ( just a little bit) and a scraper and i make sure that the car is away from the pavement and
any water turning to ice is pooling on my own drive.
it is selfish to do this in the road though and i wouldnt do this there.

We get lots of snow and ice where I live (18" in the past two weeks, plus .75" of ice), and that is not the done thing here. It can crack your windshield and damage your paint too. Get some de-icer and a scraper.

Sorry but it has never occurred to me either, but I don’t drown the car in gallons of water and I put salt in it.

My reasoning being is that it’s preferable to spraying anti freeze.

But why don’t they just use the windscreen heater thing?

@CarolDanvers It's not "turning on someone" FFS. This is AIBU, short and to the point usually. I honestly struggle to see how people don't think "water + freezing temperatures = ice"

Especially when this is the umpteenth thread I've seen this year on MN about pouring water onto icy cars and it's been mentioned every single time.

Sorry but if you take 15 minutes to defrost your car and have to resort to water you're a moron. Fair enough if you hadn't considered that it might be a bad idea, but hearing all these horror stories and using your lack of time in the morning to justify it is just bollocks, I also have a 1 hour commute at least and that doesn't include getting a toddler in the car and dropped off at nursery on the way. My DP commutes 1.5 hours each way and works shifts so leaves at silly o'clock. Both of us use scrapers and it takes a grand total of about 2 minutes to do the windscreen and front windows.

Windscreen heater takes too long

So pedestrians shouldn't be crossing the road then? to the poster that saying pedestrians have no reason to be in the road.

Surely hot water + frozen windscreen = cracked windscreen?

Not if it is hot/warm rather than boiling and you only use a small amount.

Salt and de-icer only work if the weather is warming up. If you use them before a cold freeze they simply freeze on even and make the ice even harder to remove and more persistent (which is also the problem with salt on pavement ice).

I use warm water but it only takes a mugful drizzled across the top of the screen. How much water are they sloshing around to make ice patches on the pavement whilst defrosting a car parked on the road?

But why don’t they just use the windscreen heater thing?

Becauase their super important jobs mean they are so much busier than the rest of us so it justifies them being selfish dicks.

I do this - but both our cars are on our driveway, and any water run off goes nowhere near the pavement.

Windscreen cover £2.45 in Aldi at the moment.

Ah the usual “this is AIBU I can say what I want” disclaimer. Well if you’re happy to sound snidey and passive aggressive there’s not much more I can say.

You must have aong drive noctu

For those happy to make an ice slide across the pavement be uase you're in a rush, do you assume pedestrians are just tooting about in the cold for fun and not to get to work etc which a nasty fall might delay?