The message from David Precious contains these words:
Anyone here ever actually cracked a screen doing this? I've heard this trotted out every year but never actually found anyone who's seen it happen.
David Precious ( snipped-for-privacy@preshweb.co.uk) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :
I'd be more worried about serious scalds if the tap really is delivering
*boiling* hot water...
you were saying :)
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I'm a bit of a wuss, so even if the water isn't THAT hot, it's still too hot for me :) the boiler is set for 102 degrees F so i guess thats almost 39 C
and yes, it's a works van :)
I don't really know, only read newspapers...
Yep it does. However I end up sitting in traffic anyway idling the car whether it's hot, cold or icey :)
... find the car gone.
It must be nice to live somewhere where you can take such risks without worrying ;-)
Had the same model car (I think) mine was 1933 and actually bore the name Morris 'Minor'. Same central accelerator. No heating just a pure thermosyphon circulation radiator with no water pump. Cable brakes - '34 model had hydraulics - and remember one winter in 1956 (Suez crisis petrol rationing) after a cold night I came out to find two core plugs sticking an inch out on popcycles from the engine block. Was able to replace both of them after thawing out the engine without moving the engine or anything else.
Tony
Not going to tell you where I live, but I have a habit of leaving the car keys in the drivers door lock overnight, or leaving the car unlocked with the keys in the ignition. I've lately taken to forgetting to wind up the windows too. Luckily where I live there is not much crime, which is fortunate for me, especially when I came home the other day and my neighbour told me she had shut my front door for me after I drove off and left it wide open. My driveway points right at my front door and my car was pointing right at the front door too. I will be surprised if this is posted in the right newsgroup......
windscreens the car park is turned into an ice rink ready for the day shift.
ORANGE???
Same engine and same defrosting method here (waves hand in air!). My cars 11 years old this year and has over 175,000 miles on the clock, and she still runs as sweet as, so it can't be doing that much damage IMO.
My last car had 320,000 on the clock. I de-iced it the same way I do it's replacement. Start it up, switch on all heating related devices, bugger off indoors and when I can see the interior of the car through it's windscreen from the living room window, I know it's ready. By this time the side window vents have also melted the ice on the side windows too. Still wish it had a front demister and skoosher heaters tho :)
Didn't actually see it but the guy over the road recived attention from autoglass for it,
i must add this was on a verrrry cold day and the water was right from the kettle
The message from "Andrew Ratcliffe" contains these words:
Ah, traffic. I'd forgotten about traffic since we left London.
Set the diesel heater on my Saab 9-3 TiD to come on about 15-20 mins before I need to leave and then get in to the toasty car with clear windows, start the engine and drive off!
Start up then chuck enough lukewarm water over the windscreen and rear window so that the glass warms up and drive off. Takes 1 minute.
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Pretty much the same here, but I fill a 3 litre milk carton from the hot tap and keep it in the car then I don't have to walk back to the house. I'm lazy like that, and usually late too. CC
I can't see how they'd not be a physical fit. I'm not sure when they get powered, but they'll presumably be on the wiring diagram in the book.
I suppose it would be nice to lift the complete system from the scrap one. I've only *seen* it on an M535i E28 but my E34 handbook does talk about it along with all the other things my car doesn't have. This E28 had headlight washers and wipers as well but I'm not keen.
On the Galaxy they come on with the hetaed front screen, the rear view mirrors come on with the heated rear screen - I think?
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Alfa - Start engine, Put heater on, direct it half to the windscreen, half to the interior, fire up the heated rear screen (and mirrors), wait til the wipers work, then drive myopically squinting through that bit that defrosts first at the bottom of the screen for the first couple of minutes.
Golf - Start engine, Wind down window, point cold air at windscreen, wipe screen with old McDonalds tissue, curse the fact I never got round to fixing the heater matrix, fire up the wipers a few times, jam a 2p piece in the heated rear window switch (so it works), wipe condensation off the inside of the screen again, keep wiping and drive.
Can normally see after about a mile... I've been known to wind down the window and stick me head out before now.
Merc - Fire up heater + heated rear window, turn heater up to "mega toasty thermonuclear", wait for about a minute, drive away with perfectly defrosted windows.
the wonders of big V8s... instant heat :-)
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