Prevent Ice/Frost on Windscreen

[TheArchitect]

Any tips on preventing ice/frost settling on my car windscreen?

thanks
____________________
GSXR 600 K6 - Stolen
GSXR 600 K6 - Stolen
MT09 - Almost stolen

[angryjonny]

Move to Egypt

[Doovy]

Flat cardboard sheets on the screen, wipers on top?
____________________
Yamaha RXS 100 > Honda CD 250 > Honda Hornet 600 > Honda CBR 600RR > Yamaha RXS 100 > Kawasaki ZX6R J2 > Yamaha FZ1

[P.addy]

Sheet over it overnight. Would probably just set wipers so they are in the up position and slot a sheet of card/tarp/brothers clothes over and wedge them down.

Alternatively leaving the car running with the heaters on max

I have found however if I park my car in front of the house, it doesn't ice up, if I leave on drive its icy as fuck. Get it out of the wind.

[angryjonny]

<sensible hat>
Shelter is key. Our drive runs between our house and next door and parking the cars down there means they're very rarely frosted up, compared to other cars parked out on the street etc.

Even parking under tree helps, but then you have to clean off bird crap instead.
</sensible hat>

[MarkJ]

We the Halfords equivalent of one of these, works a treat. Just trap each end inside the doors and you're ice free in the morning.

[stinkwheel]

Anything you put on it can become frozen to it with sufficient moisture.

How I laughed at my neighbour attempting to chisel a piece of ice-ridden doormat off his windscreen.

I personally have for many years used a bottle of warm water to defrost my windscreen in seconds. I take an empty bottle/tetra-pack from the kitchen bin then put it in the outside bin next to the car when I'm done with it.


In B4 Windscreen will assplode. It wont.
____________________
“Rule one: Always stick around for one more drink. That's when things happen. That's when you find out everything you want to know.”
I did the 2010 Round Britain Rally on my 350 Bullet. 89 landmarks, 3 months, 9,500 miles.

[P.addy]

[Islander]

[smegballs]

Why do bike seats freeze up before the rest of the bike? Other night the seat was frost, but drops of liquid water on the tank

[TheArchitect]

some good and not so good ideas

Will do the warm water thing I think. Have already tried wiping the screen with vinegar but that just smears on the next rainy day and smells like a chippy.

thanks
____________________
GSXR 600 K6 - Stolen
GSXR 600 K6 - Stolen
MT09 - Almost stolen

[whitedevil]

Mix 1/3 isopropyl alcohol with 2/3 water in a spray bottle, keep it in the car and spray your window in the morning. The alcohol lowers the freezing point of the water and will clear it in seconds without the worry of it shattering the glass.
____________________
GPZ500 sold ~ CBR600FS-2 sold ~ ZX6R sold ~ Street Triple R

[stinkwheel]

[Rogerborg]

£12.75 for 5 litres, delivered, with a big 100ml syringe thrown in (not literally in it).

Mixed 1/3 that's 85p a litre, which is far less than anything you'll buy in the supermarket or garage. Diluted, it won't do anything to rubber seals, prove me wrong.

That said, I use warm water though, because that's (heating costs) / litre.
____________________
Biking is 1/20th as dangerous as horse riding.
GONE: HN125-8, LF-250B, GPz 305, GPZ 500S, Burgman 400 // RIDING: F650GS (800 twin), Royal Enfield Bullet Electra 500 AVL, Ninja 250R because racebike

[stinkwheel]

Much cheaper than last time I looked at buying the stuff for homemade backpacking stove purposes.

Interestingly, I strongly suspect a 5l IPA would be breaching most couriers terms of carriage. I can't have a 5l surgical spirit (essentially ethanol) delivered to work by our specialist medical couriers. They deliver 5x 1litre

[sickpup]

Go to Halfords and buy their blue screenwash for £3.50 for 5 litres. Put in a spray bottle and spray over your frozen window. Good for about -8. Or get the purple stuff for £4.50 for 5 litres for -10 and below.

[smegballs]

[Lord Percy]

[andyscooter]

I put a cover on it
____________________
gilera runner vxr200 (chavped)
if its spelt wrong its my fat fingers and daft auto correct on my tablet

[Fladdem]

I went fording in the Jimny two weeks ago, the water came up over the bonnet and had about 6 inches of water sat in the foot well after it leaked in. The heater had packed up about a week before that.

So now in the morning I have to go out to the car 15 minutes early to scrape the inside of the windscreen, the outside, the dash board, the roof, anywhere that water condenses will freeze over. I may as well take the bike, it's warmer because my gears pretty good, cheaper, and I can park at work on the bike.
____________________
Current:1991 Honda MT50 (Soon to be a H100/MTX/MT5 hybrid), 1976 Honda Cub C70, 2005 Honda Varadero 125, 1993 Yamaha TTR250 Open Enduro , 2010 Road Legal Stomp YX140, 1994 Honda CRM 250 MK III, 1999 Cagiva Mito 125, 1992 Honda CB400 Super Four, Stomp T4 230, 1984 Honda H100s, 2009 Sym XS125K
Past:2003 Aprilia RS125, 1982 Kawasaki GPZ550(FREE BIKE!)
I'm having more fun than a well-oiled midget.

[Pete.]

Warm water here too. I use a 4l milk bottle full of warm tap water. You want it no hotter than uncomfortably warm.
____________________
a.k.a 'Geri'

132.9mph off and walked away. Gear is good, gear is good, gear is very very good

[Rogue_Shadow]

Free bottle of de-icer if your with 02 (Priority App)

I'd normally use the lukewarm water approach, adding abit of salt if it's really heavy.

But I got a heated screen now and I'm never in a hurry to get the work van moving first thing

[iooi]

[Ariel Badger]

I save the methanol left in my tank at the end of a meeting and in the winter it goes into the screen wash bottle.
____________________
Bikers make great organ donors, get 115 on your licence today.

[andys675]

makes a big difference if I park facing where the sun will come up, the screen definatley clears quicker
____________________
Some people feel the rain, others just get wet.