How dangerous and lazy

[andy_nic]

I just passed a car going to work to see a driver with snow all over his front window screen with only a 20 by 10 cm gap made to look out of. looked like a giant snow ball was coming at me.

[free780]

Its a car not a tank. When people leave snow on the roof as well it flies at the car behind.

[Andrew_C]

I saw one of those get nicked earlier in the year. Fair made my day!

[localzuk]

Hope they get pulled over and fined for dangerous driving. Its stupid. It only takes a few minutes to get snow off a car, its not like they're huge or something.

[Sunnyknight]

Hope they get pulled over and fined for dangerous driving. Its stupid. It only takes a few minutes to get snow off a car, its not like they're huge or something.

 

A few mins?! Nononono...

 

I was stuck at home scraping off the snow & ice for a good 30 mins, even with de-icer! I do agree though, it's stupid to drive with a tiny bit of vision. Should be given points.

 

' looked like a giant snow ball was coming at me. ' - Made me laugh

[unixman_again]

It took me 10 minutes to sweep 15cm of snow off my car this morning. I use a soft broom.

 

I find it amazing that we get a bit of snow and drivers immediately forget how to park in the bays at the railway station. It's pretty easy for the first car to line up with the kerb, and the rest of the cars to line up with the one next to it.

[andrew_91090]

Isn't it illegal to drive round with more than 6cm of snow of the roof of your car now? or is that just a rumour I heard?

[synaesthesia]

Not sure, but it's certainly stupid.

 

Easy way to think of it, as I found out this Sunday morning.

 

I had a good 4 inches on my boot (saloon). My handy scraper-offer device is in the boot. No problem. Key in, turn, lift open. LLLLLIFT open. Ok, maybe not. Both hands and ALL my strength and I could not open this boot. That means the weight of that snow on the boot and a little from the back windscreen must have been a hell of a weight - probably equal to a passenger. More passengers/weight you have, higher fuel consumption and running costs, higher wear.

Fuel costs are bad enough as it is!

[witch]

I think it might be illegal due to the danger of the snow sliding down over the windscreen if you stop or slow down.

[Grey-gear]

Why do people do something that dumb, I hope he\she got pulled over for that

[korifugi]

I think it might be illegal due to the danger of the snow sliding down over the windscreen if you stop or slow down.

 

Not to mention falling off behind you (or to the side in the case of corners) and hitting other driver's windscreens - thus potentially causing accidents there...

[AMLinington]

Heated front windscreen FTW - I have a Ford Focus. My Ice clearing process is as follows:

 

Get into car

 

Turn engine on, put windscreen to quick-clear, turn on 'heated front windscreen', turn on iPod.

 

Listen to music for 3 minutes

 

Turn wipers on.

 

Sheet of ice crashes sideways onto the driveway.

 

Drive away.

 

Win.

[andy_nic]

Heated front windscreen FTW - I have a Ford Focus. My Ice clearing process is as follows:

 

Get into car

 

Turn engine on, put windscreen to quick-clear, turn on 'heated front windscreen', turn on iPod.

 

Listen to music for 3 minutes

 

Turn wipers on.

 

Sheet of ice crashes sideways onto the driveway.

 

Drive away.

 

Win.

 

Same here, I did look at a Audi but they don't have heat front windows. So picked the ford focus

[rad]

Heated front windscreen FTW - I have a Ford Focus. My Ice clearing process is as follows:

 

Get into car

 

Turn engine on, put windscreen to quick-clear, turn on 'heated front windscreen', turn on iPod.

 

Listen to music for 3 minutes

 

Turn wipers on.

 

Sheet of ice crashes sideways onto the driveway.

 

Drive away.

 

Win.

 

Mine usually consists of above, however instead of ipod its, get out and help OH clear her car. Heated side windows needed next.

[sippo]

Hope you clear your lights as well...

[Danp]

At night fill a 2 litre bottle of water with some screen wash in it. Leave in house with lid off. In the morning, brush the worse of the snow off the car and pour said water over the glasswork and stick wipers on, job done.

[Love_Sausage]

Water just vaguely lukewarm works very well for ice too. Not hot obviously.

[andrew_91090]

I got a heated ice scrapper for Christmas (as a joke) but who's laughing now

 

saying, we don't have any snow up here as of yet

[CAM]

Not sure, but it's certainly stupid.

 

Easy way to think of it, as I found out this Sunday morning.

 

I had a good 4 inches on my boot (saloon). My handy scraper-offer device is in the boot. No problem. Key in, turn, lift open. LLLLLIFT open. Ok, maybe not. Both hands and ALL my strength and I could not open this boot. That means the weight of that snow on the boot and a little from the back windscreen must have been a hell of a weight - probably equal to a passenger. More passengers/weight you have, higher fuel consumption and running costs, higher wear.

Fuel costs are bad enough as it is!

 

Good job it didn't open or you would have ended up with a boot full of snow.

[unixman_again]

I left the sun roof open once and had a car full of snow. Luckily it was a company car and we used a mobile cleaning company who came and dried it out.

[TechMonkey]

Heated front windscreen FTW - I have a Ford Focus. My Ice clearing process is as follows:

 

Get into car

 

Turn engine on, put windscreen to quick-clear, turn on 'heated front windscreen', turn on iPod.

 

Listen to music for 3 minutes

 

Turn wipers on.

 

Sheet of ice crashes sideways onto the driveway.

 

Drive away.

 

Win.

 

That's the one thing I am going to miss about my Ford Apparently the patent runs out soon, possibly this year, so soon all and sundry will have it

[AMLinington]

Water just vaguely lukewarm works very well for ice too. Not hot obviously.

 

LeBoyfriend has an Astra so we fill 3 or 4 4-pint milk bottles with cold water then stand them in the hall against the radiator - they get vaguely lukewarmish when the rads come on at 5am and we found this quite effective at clearing the windscreen.

 

For the record, my windscreen clearing process was tongue in cheek - I don't have heated side windows or anything so lights, windows and wing mirrors still need clearing, although the warmish water does that quite well and the two hardest screens are a doddle with heated front and rear.

[jmak]

Our cars go in the garage

 

I know not everyone has a garage, but always amazes me how many people do, but still leave their cars outside. It still makes me happy every time I don't have to clear a car in the morning. There are potential pitfalls: I got a text from OH at work on Friday "I think I may have nudged the garage door this morning. Sorry." Wasn't really a surprise - I'd seen the garage door...

[Andrew_C]

Car in the garage??!! That's where my bike lives... Along with two beds, heaps of camping stuff, gardening tools and MOUNTAINS of carp.