Frosted up windscreens - what do you use??

[Pillock]

It was -5 this morning.... brrr! I normally use de-icer, with the engine on and heated rear window going. However it was that horrible snow-that-had-partly-melted-and-then-iced-over which just laughed at my large can of de-icer so I resorted to using yet another plastic card from my wallet to scrape the windscreen.And they wonder why my ID badge never works. Or my Kenco cards.We're forcast five more days of snow so I'm going to go and buy a proper scraper before I get down to my debit card.Last year I used the plastic card that the blood donors service sent me, ironically it snapped in half and jabbed into my hand, drawing blood.

[Tayne]

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[Claypole]

I take the scaremongering TV's advice and don't travel unless I have to. (I'm dole scum at the minute).Although I had to scrape the inside of the windscreen today.

[dollywobbler]

Well, the SHEETS of WIN helped me overcome the SNOW CHAOS this morning. Great to just lift the frost and snow off the car and the Saab now looks very fetching draped in sheets in the car park.Of course, the downside is that the car was almost immediately ready to drive off, but the heater was a long way from kicking heat out. Chilly. I'll take that instead of scraping though. Not sure how well the sheet would cope in a really heavy frost mind.

[254575]

I am not seeing it on the DVLA either, was it yellow?Vehicle Registration Mark Q133HVFMake LAND ROVERModel OTHERTransmission & fuel type MANUAL PETROLBody Type LIGHT UTILITY 4X4Colour YELLOW

yeah, it was in sand!

[Guest]

Looks like the weather is a complete joke today. Ah well, needs must.

[Ratdat]

Looks like the weather is a complete joke today. Ah well, needs must.

It's sunny here ;PStill bleedin cold, mind.

[Pillock]

Looks like the weather is a complete joke today. Ah well, needs must.

We're approaching 4" of snow here, settling even on the main roads. "TRAVEL CHAOS" and all that. Just watched some fat bint in a Fiesta assume the best way up a 1:8 was with the throttle planted, although I think she got the hint when she was going backwards, with the wheels going forwards, and a guy in a SuperCarry just trundled around her and off up the hill.

[Milford Cubicle]

Eleven billion RPM and 140MPH on the speedo standing still, that'll get me up this hill.

[Father Ted]

Looks like the weather is a complete joke today. Ah well, needs must.

[wuvvum]

Looks like the weather is a complete joke today. Ah well, needs must.

[ashmicro]

I use Mercedes-Benz non-aerosol deicer, and 3:1 mix of Holts screenwash to stop the washers freezing.Some bloke in Sainsburys carpark, with a nice new 3 Series, decided to use his heated washers, and bust his windscreen.*snigger*. Did offer him a lift in my 8 year old Rover, though.

[dollywobbler]

Garage worked quite nicely to keep the frost off my 2CV. Drove her out, shut the door and as a small film of mist had formed on the inside of the windscreen, wiped it off. It just froze. Then had to wait for the heater to warm up a bit!Then had to deal with all the numpties crawling along because of a few flakes of snow. Gah!

[M'coli]

Took the cover off the wife's car this morning to find the flock lining frozen to the car's roof!

[Station]

^lol!I have one of those cassette wired things you plug into an IPod. It has a 90 degree edge and does the job fine.My dad has a scraper you have to plug in and it 'heats' up after 5 minutes. You can still scrape the ice, but the heat doesn't really do anything. Talk about 'if it ain't broke'.

[andrew e]

Best solution? Autoglym glass cleaner paste, in a half windscreen test (in and out) there was a marked difference in defrost either side. I leave the car running 5 minutes in this weather or the LPG sulks anyway, not having a foul tractor propelled car the neighbours are not pissed off either.