Hello all you guys up North. Any of you use heated ice scrapers? If so do you have any experience which to avoid and which are good? We had only a little bit of ice last night but that reminded me of how bad the ice can get here. Don't have a garage so covering the windshield and scraping is about it. Thanks for any input.
I just start the truck 10 mins early if it's icing out or if I forget to cool the windshield before parking outside when snowing. Defrost and regular scrapper is all I've ever used.
Bingo. If my water temp isn't up enough to melt the frost and ice,the rig doesnt move. How about rain x de-icer. Pour it in your windshield tank
My grandpa use to just throw a canvas cover over the wind shield because he was always late for everything didn't have time to scrape
I use the orange Rain X in the winter. My plow truck, even with winter blades, will freeze ice along the thin rubber wiper. While it won't stop ice the rain x helps delay my need to manually remove the ice that forms. ETA: My Silverado has or, should I say had, (thanks GM recall) heated wiper fluid. I don't drive it in the salt so cold weather performance is limited. It did work well on lite frost.
I wish I didn't have to drive in the salt. True story here.......A friend of mine who has to plow his driveway with a quad broke it in half a couple days ago. Years of plowing, without washing underneath off. He probably should have noticed a little rust. HA!
Hey guys , Happy New Year!!! For me it doesn't really matter I don't go much anywhere and can time it as i like. Hubby has to be at work and forgets to turn the car on. He'll just have to use a tarp or something to put over it. See you all over on the weather thread.
For a couple of years I used a Snow Shield to cover the windshield of the truck since it wouldn't fit in the garage. Now have the tent garage but still use4 the SS for while I'm at work. Makes it very easy to remove accumulated snow and most of the ice. Will still have a slight haze of frost underneath sometimes but not too bad.
Been dealing with frosty wind shields my whole life, just start the car before I eat breakfast/fire up the stove/etc, turn the defrost on medium and when I'm ready to leave I leave, sometimes I have to look through a 6" defrosted patch for a mile or 2 but I'm out in the country, and I take it slow,
Had an old 64 Volkswagen beetle back in the day, and anybody who had one knew how well the "heater" and "defroster" worked on those. Yep.
I don't know if this applies to diesels, but modern gas cars are designed to be started, and drive right away. Obviously you can't floor it right away, and need to get it warmed up fully before gunning it. Really, the only time I have to scrape ice/snow from my windows is at work. I just use a standard plastic scraper while the engine warms up a little bit, and the defrost is on.
Thanks guys for all the input. Just ordered one of those covers for the Subaru it should also cover most of the front side windows. Regular ice scrapers are fine most of the time. But we get these really nasty ice storms here not so much snow. That stuff is too hard and too thick to get through so i guess keeping it off is the best way to go. Horkn you are right they say not to let these modern cars run for long. Although i can't see why that would hurt the engine unless sitting in traffic would also hurt them. We used to live in Seattle for a while and i worked south of Seattle. It took sometimes hours to get home to Edmonds sitting in the traffic. Much as I liked the Seattle area and boy do i miss the food, the traffic could be horrific at times.
