Hack for de-icing your car.

Callistemon21

Germanshepherdsmum

My car lives in a garage.

😲 I don't know anyone who puts their car in the garage any more, except for some with classic cars!

Well, my Dh does it's got a soft top. If you have a garage why not use it? It's like having a freezer and buying your food daily.
We had a double garage before and we angled the cars in so they fit.DH often had to go to work in the middle of the night and did not have time to scrape it.

We had a double garage built when we moved here. Apart from all my husband’s tools 🙄 we both have cars that would be attractive to thieves. Best under lock and key.

I’m fortunate to be able to fit the car into the garage. Any bigger, though and it wouldn’t go in. Well, it might go in, but I wouldn’t get out 😂.
Like that, RosiesMaw - brought a smile to my face 😂.

Mollygo

Good idea Shysal. I usually put a cover over my windscreen at night, but I don’t have a cover for the background and that sounds quicker than using the heated rear windscreen.

just put some newspaper under the wiper ?
for the rear screen.
(remember to take it off before driving away)

rosie1959

Tend to start mine leave the heating and blowers on go and do something else usually clear within a few mins.

isn't that a bit risky; someone else might nip in and drive it off.
insurance might not cover it.

Living in London, now on my own I could afford either a house or a garage, so I opted for the house.

welbeck

rosie1959

Tend to start mine leave the heating and blowers on go and do something else usually clear within a few mins.

isn't that a bit risky; someone else might nip in and drive it off.
insurance might not cover it.

it is hardly unusual to do this welbeck

I just start the engine and switch the heaters on whilst I go on spraying the windows and mirrors with de icer. The stuff you can buy in cans in the supermarket. Pretty quick and does the job.

i didn't say it was unusual.
i suggested it was risky, which it is.
insurance would not be swayed by usualness; they might well say steps were not taken to secure the vehicle from theft.

welbeck

i didn't say it was unusual.
i suggested it was risky, which it is.
insurance would not be swayed by usualness; they might well say steps were not taken to secure the vehicle from theft.

Not just might say - a newspaper report of a couple of days ago stated definitively would not pay out - be warned

Germanshepherdsmum

We had a double garage built when we moved here. Apart from all my husband’s tools 🙄 we both have cars that would be attractive to thieves. Best under lock and key.

Yes, we have a double garage. Must remind DH to have a declutter.

I just lie on the bonnet whilst mine warms up. Stops theft and it's colder than sitting in the car

JaneJudge

I just lie on the bonnet whilst mine warms up. Stops theft and it's colder than sitting in the car

😂😂😂

You can scrape the windscreen with your hacker at the same time!

that wouldn't necessarily stop theft.
might cause injury if a determined person came by.
take care.

I use de-icer🤷 if I haven't covered the windscreen overnight.

welbeck

that wouldn't necessarily stop theft.
might cause injury if a determined person came by.
take care.

Don't worry.
JaneJudge has got a weapon - her ice hack!

We have a double garage which until recently was home to a full size snooker table, dart board, bikes, ski/snowboarding gear, toboggans and various hobby equipment of five children.

Might get cars in by the end of 2024 🤣🤣🤣

Ours has a table tennis table, wine rack, darts board, workbench etc etc etc.......

Callistemon21

Ours has a table tennis table, wine rack, darts board, workbench etc etc etc.......

Forgot wine rack, wine/beer fridge, fold up table tennis table, I feel the need for a skip🤣

Another with a double garage, so I have made a point of putting the current car away at night.
The last one was too long, because of the cr*p at the back.
It’s on the list to sort out.

That's a useful hint, Shysal.
My car is 40 years old and when I went to drive it yesterday had ice on the inside of the windscreen and rear window!
No chance of using deicer without a right old mess, I just had to scrape away carefully, a warmed ziplock bag would have really helped!

(And although I'd love to keep my beloved car in the garage, my big old 1980's car won't fit in my little 1950's garage )

We lived in a house that had a very narrow garage one of you had to get out and let the driver reverse in the road was too busy to reverse out. ,The people before us had suspended a ping pong ball from the ceiling which touched the back window to tell you you had reversed enough we adapted it to ours.
We have to put the car away we live among farms and you never know who is looking to steal a quad bike or even a tractor . After having our house completely cleared out while we were at work and having one used after we had just sold it in a bank robbery I think it has made us ultra-careful.

House dates from 1967, car (Fiesta) from 2018, so garage too narrow for small modern car, though presence of upright freezer doesn’t help. No good putting the car away if you can’t actually get out of it.

We always put our car into the garage every night.
House built 1968, so perhaps we are lucky that it is wide enough.
Ping pong ball also deployed.

GrannySomerset

House dates from 1967, car (Fiesta) from 2018, so garage too narrow for small modern car, though presence of upright freezer doesn’t help. No good putting the car away if you can’t actually get out of it.

I would agree. Luckily one of us can get out in the garage so DH's car goes away as it is the most vulnerable. Our garage is as long as the house but narrow so the freezer and worktop with drawers is at the top near the kitchen door.