Has anyone tried this? How do you guys usually deal with the frozen cars in the morning?

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1. We actually had a thread about this not too long ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/Finland/comments/rzwa7p/why_dont_car_owners_put_a_cover_on_their_cars_to/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share

2. I took my car to the junkyard

3. I use cabin heater. Windows are frost free and then just drive off. No need to brush or scrabe

4. In some places where snow is a fairly common thing, you can actually buy purpose-made covers for your vehicles so it is a thing and you can probably find one for sale on the web.

5. Cold powdery snow is easy to brush off. Frosted windows can be a pain in the ass to scrape. Wet heavy snow takes more effort to brush off but usually doesn’t cause frozen windows.

   Many people have cabin heaters which help a lot. If there is only light snowfall, then you can just drive off. If there is more, then brush it off and drive off.

   Some people use a windscreen cover. I have seen full-body covers too, but I’m guessing those cars are not being used on a daily basis. A full body thin film of plastic like in the video would not work 80% of the time, because of too heavy snow, or freezing onto the car, or being needless in the first place.

6. Keep in mind that if you cover your car after you’ve just driven around, the heat inside will turn into condensation and the cover will freeze stuck onto your windshield and windows and leave some nasty hard as fuck ice on them. It’s usually more of a hassle to cover your car rather than just brush it off and scrape the soft ice off the windows.

7. Isn’t it stick?

8. Roof

9. Haven’t tried that, definitely looks cool.

   Whenever I have to have my car outside of the garage when it’s snowing, I just go for the boring old method of brushing the snow off, and scraping the windows clean with a plastic sraper. I once had a metal scraper which was meant for cleaning windows of ice, but just like I was warned, it damaged the windows.

10. I just use the windscreen cover I bought on biltema for 4€ that’s it.

11. And that doesn’t look too practical

12. I use a flamethrower since gas is cheap

13. KKonq

14. Windshield clean and drive

15. That’s one thing that has mostly disappeared in the last 10-20 years or so; the good old “pressu”. A stiff sheet of ugly, off-green plastic that Finns would throw over anything that needed protection from the weather. Damn near indestructible, though!

    I still have a visceral reaction to the sound of a pressu moving around in the wind, going all crumpled and stretchy and whatnot…