Lazy...but clever.

[Fonze]

I scrape two peep holes drive and hope for the best ..

 

[MarkF]

Can't see how fannying about with heaters and extension leads is worthwhile in the UK? On the very, very rare occasion that my car is iced up, like yesterday, I eat my boiled eggs, drink my tea then leave the house warm, press 2 buttons inside the car (to defrost the front & rear windows) use scraper to clear the sides, 1 minute later I'm driving away. Seems an oddball me, pretending he's on ice road truckers......

 

[Freds Dad]

When I worked for BT my company van has a cab heater with a timer you could set so you had a nice warm cab and defrosted van before staring work.
If however you left it running for too long it flattened the battery and then you had to wait for the RAC to turn up to start the van which meant another couple of hours at home in the morning.

 

[TVC]

Certain football player have their cars pre warmed for them by club staff ready for when they finish their training sessions, the delicate flowers. There is an article, but it's in the Daily Mail, so I am not going to include a link.

 

[byegad]

I scrape two peep holes drive and hope for the best ..

Two! Why do you think you need two?
I've seen them drive past us with a hole the size of a baby's hand in an otherwise pristine white windscreen! Muppets...

 

[Jody]

press 2 buttons inside the car (to defrost the front & rear windows)

What if you don't have a front heated screen. By the time you have scraped your car the screen has re-frozen and you are sat with the car ticking over for 5 minutes before you can leave.

 

[cosmicbike]

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.

The Renault Zoe can be done with an app..

 

[byegad]

I remember the under bonnet heaters. Dad had one that went under the bonnet of our A30 every night in the winter. The little side window parking lights were in response to the legal requirement to show a red to rear/white to front light if parked on the road in the hours of darkness. They used less power than leaving the sidelights on! Dad had knocked down part of the wall into our backyard, fitting a double door, and our car lived off road, but we had one incase we needed to park while away from home! The window lights were a cause of the long winded attempts to start up every morning with us kids taking bets an how many cars wouldn't start in our street*. The sound of cars with failing batteries still trying to crank over the engine is a memory I'll long remember!


*As, at the time, there were only five (In a street of 70+ houses.) it wasn't a lot of fun! But we made our own amusement in the 1950s!

 

[Chris S]

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.

Presumably he leaves the car window slightly open for the lead?

 

[Drago]

He slams the door firmly shut on the lead. He's still alive, and there's no pile of smouldering ashes outside this morning.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

I'm sure I've read somewhere of people using hotwater bottles laid on top of the dash to defrost the car.

 

[Slick]

I scrape two peep holes drive and hope for the best ..

I've seen a number round here that are similar to you, they look like they're driving a panzer tank.

 

[MikeG]

My uncle used to do that very trick, 30 years ago. It works really, really well until that one time you're in a bit of a hurry and forget to unplug the extension. That doesn't always end well....

 

[Piemaster]

The Renault Zoe can be done with an app..

My wife has a Zoe. Think it needs to be plugged in for it to work. You can also turn it on via the keycard. Or just set the timer in the car.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

A cover for the windscreen works a treat