Lazy...but clever.

[Drago]

Walking the dog, returned home and passed one of my neighbours running an extension lead to his car on the driveway. Got chatting, and asked what he was doing - he's a workie, has to leave the house at 0530hrs. Rather than de-ice the car by hand. He has a small greenhouse heater clipped to the dog guard behind the back seat. He plugs it in to an extension lead, that goes to a socket with a timer in his porch. The timer comes on at 0500hrs, and he reckons he unplugs the lead and drives straight off in a frost free car. Clever, very clever, thought I.

 

[Dirk]

So glad I don't have to think that way anymore.
I just stay in bed until it looks OK to get up.
So much easier.

 

[Drago]

I was laying in my heated water bed as I typed the above.

 

[screenman]

Mine stays in a nice warm garage, I do remember a long time ago having a VW that had a heater with a timer on.

 

[Drago]

What that the olde Eiberspacher heater?

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

Why does he not just get his wife/children to go out and turn his car on and then go back inside and eat his breakfast that his wife has made for him?

 

[midlife]

Back in the 70's my dad had some sort of flat paraffin heater he put under the car...

This was after I had put the parking lights on the car before going to bed.... Yep, it was my job to wind down the driver windows and hook the parking light on.

 

[TVC]

I suppose that with plug in charged electric cars then cockpit preheating could be a very simple option. I assume either this already happens or it has been patented. If not I have just chucked away a load of royalties by stating the idea publically.

 

[Slick]

Mines lives in a garage as well, but if it was outside I would just use my smart watch to turn it on. Simple really.

 

[biggs682]

Mine stays in a nice warm garage, I do remember a long time ago having a VW that had a heater with a timer on.

I would love to get ours in the garage but its full of bloody bikes

I must admit it's this time of year i enjoy owning a Ford with heated fr & rr windscreens at the press of a button if not cold enough to have activated automatically

 

[cosmicbike]

What that the olde Eiberspacher heater?

Was thinking about fitting one of these to my VW van, but to be honest I don't think it would get used enough to justify the cost.

I have thought about the electric heater idea though, since the van needs to be plugged in now and then to charge the leisure battery.

 

[brucers]

I actually like scrapping frost/snow off my car....no, I do really.

 

[welsh dragon]

Work ?. Did you say work?. I don't do that. And my car lives in the garage.

 

[Jody]

My friend who lives in Sweden does the same. Although its success comes down to whether the door has frozen shut when its -25

 

[delb0y]

I suppose that with plug in charged electric cars then cockpit preheating could be a very simple option. I assume either this already happens or it has been patented. If not I have just chucked away a load of royalties by stating the idea publically.

I do believe these new electric cars have such a timer option built in, TVC. So you're okay, you've not lost a fortune.