Thursday, November 17, 2016

Keep Your Windshild Clean from Ice

Ice on Windshield

When it is winter and temperature drop down near 0 degree Celsius one of the common problems we face is ice on the windshield. No one likes to clean ice from the windshield in the morning at winter especially if we are in hurry. But we cannot go opposite of   nature. But we can follow some rules and learn some tricks to avoid this problem.

Take an onion, cut it into two pieces and rub that raw onion on the glass. And see the magic. You can also use a rubber bath mat to cover your windshields at night.

If wipers blade got frozen with windshields soak a soft cloth with alcohol. Rub the wipers blades with it the cloth. It will help the blades not to sticking with winds shields.

But you can get the best wiper blades for winter. This will not only help you with this think but it will also help you to drive safely when it is snowing.

Some of the new cars have a defrost mode in the car. Start the car and then push the defrost button and wait for 15 min. you need to have a good wiper blade if you live in an area like Alaska or somewhere in Canada.
Never try to defrost ice using water hot or cold. It will break your car windshields due to thermal shock. And while warming up the car you have to sure that nothing is blocking the vehicle tailpipe. It can cause carbon monoxide poisoning.


Ice Melting Solution

You can also spray your car with salt water solution. It is very popular and common among ice road truck driver. The ions of the salt lower the melting point of ice. If those methods fail then you should try commercial device? Those are not hard to find nut pretty expensive for their product.

It is also important that your side mirror is also defrosted. Without side mirror, it is very dangerous to drive on the wet road and whiles it is foggy. You can follow the same for side mirror. But a more easy method is covering it up with a plastic bag at night. So it very simple solution to your problem.       


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