Owners quick winter tips?

[Poundy]

Anyone got a make life easy driving tip for winter?

My starter for ten.

When defrosting the front screen with blower on. Drop down the sun visors to recirculate the air back down the screen instead of over your head.

Makes for a quicker and more comfortable exercise 😉

[dutchie01]

If possible park your car nose first as close as possible to your house. The heat of the house will  prevent your front screen from freezing.

[Poundy]

Just to add, take your wipers off auto before starting the car in case they are frozen to the screen, and damage the rubber

[Las Palmas]

7 minutes ago, Poundy said:

Just to add, take your wipers off auto before starting the car in case they are frozen to the screen, and damage the rubber

Or pour cold water on them till ice melts.

Never hot water.

[NemesisUK]

Park the car in a heated garage ... (Oh, I wish!!!)

[LenT]

2 hours ago, Las Palmas said:

Or pour cold water on them till ice melts.

Never hot water.

Sound advice, John.

However, my Father was a taxi driver.  As a child, I recall frosty winter mornings when he would boil a kettle of water and pour it over the ice-covered windscreen!

Amazingly, as I grew up to realise, it never shattered!  I’ve no idea why - and it’s not something I would ever try myself.

On the other hand, if he thought of it, he’d lay sheets of newspaper across the screen the night before which could then be peeled off to reveal an ice-free screen.

Nowadays you can buy a cover for the windscreen to do the same job!

[Poundy]

4 hours ago, Las Palmas said:

Or pour cold water on them till ice melts.

Never hot water.

I only did that once, because once I had driven off the water on the drive froze solid and both my wife and daughter went arse over tip when they left home

Made my life hell for over a week, never again lol!

[Las Palmas]

3 hours ago, NemesisUK said:

Park the car in a heated garage ... (Oh, I wish!!!)

Or live in a country without a cold winter.

[Poundy]

3 minutes ago, Las Palmas said:

Or live in a country without a cold winter.

I did, 30years in Australia, many in tropical North Queensland, returned 2015. Loving it here at the moment but have duel citizenship just in case 😉

[dutchie01]

Or go outside, open the car fire it up switch all heating on get out close car into house have a coffee and breakfast go outside open car and just drive off?

[NemesisUK]

13 minutes ago, dutchie01 said:

Or go outside, open the car fire it up switch all heating on get out close car into house have a coffee and breakfast go outside open car and just drive off?

Keeping in mind, in the UK at least, there are a couple of pieces of legislation one could fall foul of. Leaving a running vehicle unattended (on publicly accessible land) and leaving a car idling for a prolonged period..  

[Spock66]

Have a lie in and work from home 🙂

[First_Lexus]

Made me smile…😁

https://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/society/roads-full-of-men-with-strong-but-conflicting-opinions-about-how-to-drive-on-ice-20171211140691

 

[Poundy]

On 12/9/2022 at 6:44 PM, NemesisUK said:

Keeping in mind, in the UK at least, there are a couple of pieces of legislation one could fall foul of. Leaving a running vehicle unattended (on publicly accessible land) and leaving a car idling for a prolonged period..  

Leaving a running car unattended, is also not covered by insurance should some one drive it away