On Fri, 13 Jan 2017 14:36:57 -0000, charles wrote:

In article ,
James Wilkinson Sword wrote:
On Fri, 13 Jan 2017 14:17:21 -0000, Mark Allread wrote:

On Fri, 13 Jan 2017 13:44:21 +0000, Tim+ wrote:

Mark Allread wrote:
On Fri, 13 Jan 2017 11:48:04 +0000, NY wrote:

"The Natural Philosopher" wrote in message
news On 13/01/17 08:49, NY wrote:
"The Natural Philosopher" wrote in message
news Why tepid? I run the hottest water I can from the hot tap and
fling it liberally on to the screen. Been doing it for oodles of
years with no problems.


I pour a just boiled kettle on it

Thermal shock of boiling water on glass that is at around zero
degrees.

yes. helps get the ice off

Don't want to crack my windscreen.

Ah, maybe I'm being over-cautious, then. What about water at 100
meeting glass at around 0 - isn't there a risk of the glass cracking?
I've heard of people that it has happened to in this situation.

Never mind heard, I've seen it happen when a visitor 'proudly' showed
us the trick as we were scraping our windscreen clean.

It cost him a new screen - it cost us a few minutes scraping.


I would still maintain that he was unlucky. An unmentioned benefit of
the hot water method is that if you use enough, you warm the glass
enough to reduce/eliminate condensation on the inside.

I'd rather take the time than the risk - but each to their own.

How often do you see folk driving off whilst still trying to wipe mist
off the inside? Not just inconvenient but dangerous.


True - like the people who cannot be bothered to clear snow off car roof
and/or bonnet.

I don't. What makes you think that's dangerous? It falls off at some
point and you just activate the wipers once.

snow on the roof is most likely to blow off into the windscreen of the car
behind.

They have wipers too. Blame society bull**** again. Please go live in America.

That is why the Police will stop you and probably fine you.

Police aren't that childish.

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