18) CLEAN ALL YOUR WINDOWS. Now do it again. Do *not* clear off a 6"x6" section and call it good. Now clean off your roof, and your hood, and your trunk. Those sheets of snow will either slide down over your windshield when you stop, or worse, fly off and peg someone. I've seen them break a windshield, dent hoods, and generally cause wrecks because people tend to *panic* when a large several foot square white thing comes winging at them on the road. Invest in a good $10 ice scraper, don't even bother with those $.99 jobbies. They're worthless. (Oh, and about risking scraping your paint when cleaning off the hood, roof, and trunk? Put your finger under an edge and lift. It'll come off if it's ever going to. If it seems stuck, hit it with your fist. The ice will break, your car won't. Now remove it by lifting it gently off.)
19) Windows fogging? Blast *cold* air at them to clear them quickly. Hot air will just make cold windows re-fog immediately. When you first get in the car, put the air system on defrost, but slide the temp control to cold. After the engine warms, you can slide it to warm, then hot. This will gradually warm your windows and keep them from re-fogging. (Note: in *really* cold weather, this doesn't help, since your breath will ice over on the inside of the windows, but people in such climes generally already know these tricks, so... :) )
Thanks for the reminder. :)
Yeah, I think walking on snow and ice is a bit like smelling snow - you learn it until it's pretty instinctual. :)
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Date: 2005-01-20 03:58 am (UTC)18) CLEAN ALL YOUR WINDOWS. Now do it again. Do *not* clear off a 6"x6" section and call it good. Now clean off your roof, and your hood, and your trunk. Those sheets of snow will either slide down over your windshield when you stop, or worse, fly off and peg someone. I've seen them break a windshield, dent hoods, and generally cause wrecks because people tend to *panic* when a large several foot square white thing comes winging at them on the road. Invest in a good $10 ice scraper, don't even bother with those $.99 jobbies. They're worthless. (Oh, and about risking scraping your paint when cleaning off the hood, roof, and trunk? Put your finger under an edge and lift. It'll come off if it's ever going to. If it seems stuck, hit it with your fist. The ice will break, your car won't. Now remove it by lifting it gently off.)
19) Windows fogging? Blast *cold* air at them to clear them quickly. Hot air will just make cold windows re-fog immediately. When you first get in the car, put the air system on defrost, but slide the temp control to cold. After the engine warms, you can slide it to warm, then hot. This will gradually warm your windows and keep them from re-fogging. (Note: in *really* cold weather, this doesn't help, since your breath will ice over on the inside of the windows, but people in such climes generally already know these tricks, so... :) )
Thanks for the reminder. :)
Yeah, I think walking on snow and ice is a bit like smelling snow - you learn it until it's pretty instinctual. :)