Drivers scraping a porthole in their windscreen

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Drivers need to leave their home at least 5 mins (10 mins for snow) earlier to scrape off ice and snow off their cars.

Fed up of seeing drivers just scraping a porthole - about a fifth of the windscreen, leaving the rest of the windows still covered with ice or snow. This is stupid and illegal

Also when it snows heavily, people don't remove the snow from their car roofs. Seen it where they braked and the snow on the front half of the roof falls onto the windscreen. Wipers can't cope with that snow - plus besides, you can damage them if you attempt to shift thick snow using wipers. They have to physically get out - causing traffic problems.

Also drivers that pour water onto their windscreens, don't realise that the water freezes. I sprained my wrist a few years ago after slipping on ice caused by a driver doing this. Warm water can crack your windscreen.

Another who sets their car going on an app before I’ve even made it out of bed. Heated seats, steering wheel the lot. The front and back screens are heated and the sides dont tend to freeze over as they are close to walls on my drive. No excuse for not doing the snow on the roof though. Get a soft broom or something.

Mind you, for average southern UK snow, I’d rather a few people drove around with snow fluttering off their roof than the annual influx of those with headlights out at this time of year. There are so many that they can’t all have magically just gone that day!

Is the fanheater on an extension lead a Viz Top Tip?

As long as it's not a pedestrian or cyclist.

😂😂

The beauty of Fords. Even my previous 63 plate Fiesta had a heated windscreen.
Was expensive to replace when it was damaged by a drunk pedestrian.

I know of someone who was killed by a driver who hadn't bothered to clear their windscreen properly. I always clear my windscreen and lights if necessary and I can just about reach the roof with a soft brush. I can't use a windscreen cover because my car has frameless windows which are highly annoying but at least it does have much better positions vents to delist the windscreen unlike my previous car.

This is what I do if my car isn't in the garage. Now we're putting heaters in the garage with timer plugs so I can set the garage, and car, to heat up nicely before I leave in the morning.
But I still have to deal with all the snow and ice before I can leave work sigh

I've been clearing my windows with warm water for 35 years. Not managed to crack one yet.

I do wonder why the neighbours, earnestly scraping away at their windows as I drive off within minutes, persist.

I bought in Lidl in their Middle of Lidl, was a 4ft scraper with a brush on the other end. I can remove all the snow off my car roof now, instead of leaving a 'Mohican" in the middle of the roof.

Cost me £3.50

If you put a hot water bottle on the front dashboard and back shelf as soon as you get up it will soften the ice for scraping. Also warms the car up. And if you put hot water bottles in if you're going out on a cold evening it stops the car icing up for a good few hours. Always put a little cold water in the kettle before filling the bottle so no danger of scalding yourself if any splashes,

I do the warm water in a ziplock bag trick, works a treat and doesn't cause ice on the ground

Use a broom?

I did used to have one of those windscreen covers. Though one day when it was -8c, it froze onto the windscreen. I was scared of damaging the windscreen.

I think my car has a small hole in the sealant somewhere as sometimes get condensation inside the car and that freezes too.

NigelHarmansNewWife · Today 12:57

Lots of people don't clear snow from their headlights.

I noticed a few like that yesterday. I'd say that a large majority hadn't cleaned the snow off their rooves and bonnets and there were plenty who'd used the wipers and not bothered with the other windows.

The cops could have made a fortune in fines.

It's illegal here. Just not the resources to enforce it.

This is what i did this morning, it worked perfectly 👍😁

I've tried it before but soon realised that because my hot water takes soooo long to get through to the taps in the kitchen, it's just as quick to just go out and scrape it and less likely that I'll end up leaving an icy puddle from the zip lock bag leaking!

I had an xc6o before I got this ev. I loved it, but it was just too expensive to run

😂 brilliant