Do modern cars not have demisters or something? What's with all the morons wasting 10 minutes of their time scarping ice off their windscreens? Simply start your car and put the demister on 10 minutes before you leave.
And make sure you sit in your car all the time the engine is running so as not to leave the car unattended and stealable. I sometimes start the car with one key and then use the spare key to lock it so it can't be stolen.
But much quicker to scrape the ice off or spray it with deicer, than to wait ages for the heater to very gradually warm up - my car takes *ages* for the heater to get warm or the temperature gauge to get up to normal, if the engine is idling - probably because it's a diesel so it is more efficient and wastes less energy as heat at idling speed.
"Start your car and put the demister on 10 minutes before you leave" implies that you plan ahead and are not doing everything at the last minute like me :-)
And sit in the car for 10 minutes going nowhere?
Leaving a car engine running without the driver being inside is illegal and your insurance won't pay out if one of the local scrotes takes a liking to it.
10 minutes of idle from cold probably isn't enough to melt ice/frost from side windows. Even with a heated front windscreen it takes a few minutes for the frost ice to get soft enough for the wipers to clear it.
I don't live in a place where a car is likely to be stolen.
You don't have to wait. I simply start the car before I eat my breakfast.
Apparently it's better for the car to be warm before you drive off anyway - taxing a cold engine is bad?
Also, if you've used the demister, all the windows are perfectly clear with no chance of re-misting, much safer.
Funny you should say that, I've found diesels take longer to warm up too, yet I've been told you get warmer heaters from them - by strange people who think they run slightly hotter. My Golf diesel for example, the engine actually cooled down if I used the demister on full when I wasn't moving. If it was at full temperature and I put the blower on 4, it would cool the engine and I'd get luke warm air. I'd have to use fan 2 to get keep getting full temperature at idle.
You must have some kind of sequence in the morning - shaving, brushing your teeth etc. Just insert starting the car at a sensible point into that so it can warm up in time for you leaving.
I get warm air from the blower within 5 minutes. In 10 minutes the air inside the car is room temperature and all the ice has melted off the all the windows. Set the fan to half speed, then the engine warms up faster.
Everyone keeps £50/worth of junk in their garage and parks their second largest asset on the driveway.
And if it bothers you, fit a pre-heater on a timer.
On Sun, 10 Dec 2017 15:13:35 -0000, Huge wro= te:
Cars are designed to operate outdoors and don't need a house.
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I just contact my Renault Zoe EV with my mobile phone from bed and turn the heater on. None of this faffing about going out in the cold, unlocking the car and running engines and stuff.
On Sun, 10 Dec 2017 15:15:52 -0000, Huge wro= te:
In a hurry, I'd spray the windscreen with the hot shower as my bathroom = window is next to the drive. Or just use a kettle.
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They have electric heaters don't they? Or you wouldn't be able to see where you were going.
Boil the half full kettle, then top up with cold.
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Of course they do, a car without a demister would probably fail an MOT.
It's toughened glass. It simply doesn't crack.
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A good way to annoy your neighbours.. We had a neighbour who did this at about 6:30 with ther car (a noisy deisel ) virtually under our bedroom window.. Woke us up a good hour and mnore early! Consider your neighbours.
Malcolm
The electricity required to demist a window will be substantially less than that required to move the car around for 100 miles, so it's not a problem.
I assume you mean "weren't"
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On Sun, 10 Dec 2017 15:53:59 -0000, Malcolm Race wrote:=
If you can hear an idling car (even a diesel) with your windows closed, = get new windows. If your house is that non-soundproof, you'd be waking = up at the noise of very dog etc.
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=E2=80=9CLosing one glove is certainly painful, but nothing compared to = the pain of losing one, throwing away the other, and finding the first o= ne again.=E2=80=9D -- Piet Hein, Danish Mathematician.
They must be. Non-toughened glass is that flimsy stuff you get in green= houses which can be broken by a football. I think cars just use a diffe= rent type of toughened glass which breaks into small pieces instead of b= ig shards.
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