Posted on 01/08/2016 3:12:42 PM PST by nickcarraway
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I just take my comb out of my pocket to clear the windshield.
Works well.
Big deal.
I drove to the coffee shop twice last week and could barely see out the frost covered window...
I had just had both wipers replaced at the garage, as I had to drive to Rochester, NY. There was a heavy rain storm, and the driver’s side wiper flew off as I was doing 65. That really pissed me off. Luckily I was able to find a parts place not too far away, and they put a new one on for me.
If it’s light like in the picture, I just wipe my jacket sleeve across both front and back windows.
“Oh please. I use to drive to work with a way smaller hole.”
me too. Saskatchewan Canada in the middle of january at -15 degree weather. The RCMP calls this normal.
We get the occasional ice/snow in Seattle. Frozen solid. mechanic neighbor gave me a can of Prestone Windshield deicer - yellow spray can with a built in scraper. Don’t really need the scraper. Spray it on, instantly melts the stuff and wiper it away. Amazing stuff and bought one for each of the cars. I haven’t tested it - but I make sure I don’t get any on the paint! (Although I’m guessing it probably isn’t too terrible on it)
My 61 bug had heat, it would bring a 20 degree night up to 33 or so. I had ropes tied to the Wipers and in the wing window. With the rope in a loop you could nicely clear the windows.....
Once in Atlanta snow jam 1993 I think I did the porthole scenario trying to get to my office. LOl!
I used to have a ‘57 Volkswagen and had to drive with an ARMY blanket on me because it had no heater and had to use an Ice Scraper on the INSIDE because the Snow would come in and the ice would be almost an inch thick!! I LOVED that “car”!!! Oh, and no gas gauge!!!
He made the "suggestion" that the process would be much faster if I just got some steaming hot water from the motel and poured it on the window.
I didn't bite -- and he probably didn't appreciate it when my response to him was, basically, telling him to go f*ck himself......
“I remember driving with a buddy of mine in a VW bug (no heater) in the snow with him trying to keep the inside of the windshield from freezing using a bic lighter.”
I don’t care who you are, that’s funny right there
Brought to you by the same gaggle of lawyers and intellectuals who brought us these: 
Could possibly require a law degree from an Ivy League college and mentoring by an 8 year old child passing by.
When I lived in Illinois I would just put an old cotton rug on my windshield every night in the wintertime. In the morning I’d pull it off, give it a shake, and toss it in the back of the truck along with whatever ice or snow still clung to it...and had a nice crystal clear windshield without scraping ... plus it also kept my wipers clean, too.
The rug was also handy if I got stuck... just plop it down in front of a tire for better traction.
The carowner could have cleared the windshield by just turning on the wipers.
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It’s a Dodge , what makes you think the wipers work?
“I don’t care who you are, that’s funny right there”
And did I mention that during those periods when he couldn’t see through the windscreen he was hanging his head out in the slipstream in a snowstorm? I don’t remember anymore what was so important that we had to go to town, maybe some tandoori take-away or to see a movie.
I don’t know how we survived.
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