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Ice?
So I walk outside and put my beer on the top of my Camry and it just skates off! It has this ice stuff ( I looked it up in Wikipedia, so now I know), its all over my car roof and windshield. WTF am I going to do in the morning? Use a credit card or something to scrape it off? My Camry has something labeled a "defrost" button, should I use it? Does it work for all the windows or just the windshield?
I seriously went to a Pep Boys here a few years ago, and they don't sell ice scrapers, you have to buy them in places like Big Bear where they actually get snow. ![]()
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wait, wut?
the best way i've found to defrost my car, is to wait until 8:00am. the sun is blistering by then. ![]()
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My car got this stuff called "rain" on it yesterday. It's a lot like ice, but much more runny. I read my owner's manual and found this handy lever on the steering column that put into motion these scraper thingies on the windshield that made it easier to see.
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Let it warm up for 15 to 20 minutes or so with the heater on in the morning.
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^this...
It's the best method for a car to warm up. Just start the engine turn on the heat and let it idle 15 minutes. Nice and toasty and ready to go.
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last week.
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I just spray it down with the garden hose! Warms it up no problem.
You would NOT try that anywhere else with a real winter. I remember trying that with HOT water in a cold climate. Ouch ... G |
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Yeah, ice. Someone in CA kindly offered to take some of ours. That was the first installment.
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For those of you not in the now about how to clear ice from your windows simply use an empty coffee cup, a ceramic one, empty of course. Hold it by the handle and use the bottom part of the cup and move it back and forth across all the windows in a scraping motion, it'll remove that stubborn ice in no time at all
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The ski hill is 5 minutes from me, in fact going skiing today for a couple of hours ...and we have plenty of water.
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You drink beer first thing in the morning?
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That's not ice on the beach. This is ice on the beach.
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Today I looked up in sky and there was this strange yellowish round thingy that kind of lit up the dark Environment for a few minutes. Like a lamp in the sky sort of. Very peculiar.
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Do be careful Markus. We saw the same thing a few days ago and now my skin is all red and itchy!!
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