If you are planing to moving/visiting Finland, take a ice pick with you.

If you are planing to moving/visiting Finland, take a ice pick with you. from Finland

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  5. Protip: wipe the snow off your car before you put the heater on so your car won’t end up looking like an ice cube with wheels.

  9. Try the other door, maybe you can get in through it and push the driver side door open from the inside.

    Each morning before leaving I use an engine block heater for about an hour to preheat my engine before I turn the car on. If your car has an outlet under the glovebox you can get a sisätilanlämmitin to help heat your car from the inside at the same time, it’s much nicer to sit in a warm car in the morning. Before I get ready to go I remove the block heater cable and let it idle for a bit while it blows warm air against the windshield and heats the back window. While it does this I start by scraping the side windows and finish by scraping the windshield after it has gotten warmer and it’s easier to scrape the ice off. Brush your lights and plates a bit if they are covered in snow as well. Drive safe and be careful with icy roundabouts.

  10. Onneks mun Toyota ei oo *ihan noin jäässä* ollut vielä tänätalvena… vielä.

    Luckily my Toyota hasn’t been *that frozen* this winter… yet.

  11. This here is one of the reasons why it’s important to properly clean your car from snow. This kind of ice happens when snowy car heats up and the snow partially melts becoming ice that’s pain to deal with

  12. Just… **grab the handle and pull?** You’ve only tried with some of your fingertips ;-).

    For those not accustomed to living in places where it snows: optimally, get a roofed parking space for your car (or – this can be considered a luxury – even heated garages / parking lots exist, inside and under buildings).

    If you can’t, a removable cover for car (aka car blanket or whatever you call it in English) is semi-mandatory; the kind which covers the windows and handles. This will save from this kind of situations (and even worse situations caused by supercooled rain!), eliminate the need of brushing the snow off and scraping ice, in exchange for a few minutes of time needed to put the cover on (and a cost of <100€ for the cover).

    And indeed, as someone pointed out: avoid putting the indoor heater on if it might snow. It’s much easier to wipe off when it is still loose. Heated windows will melt the snow to re-freeze like this.

    **EDIT:** If you can not wipe the car before heating, then it’s better to not use the inside heating at all and use just engine pre-heating. Repeatedly smelting ice getting into each and every crevice to re-freeze can be really damaging in the long run. Use the seat-heater to keep your ass warm, and the insides will get warm in quite a short time if the engine has been pre-heated 🙂

  13. When it gets below -25 the locks in my Volkswagen start acting up. Many times I’ve had to shuffle myself to the drivers seat through the front passenger door because the drivers door was frozen shut. It always makes me feel like an idiot.

  20. I remember one time my friend was driving a group of us somewhere and I got in the backseat of his car. There was a device I had never seen before.
    “What’s this?” I ask.
    He stares at me like I’m from another planet. “It’s an ice scraper”

    That’s how I found out at 22 years old that there are places that you have to scrape ice off your car to use it.

  21. Make sure to remove all snow off of your car before driving, roof included. When the car heats up after a while you will get even more ice, plus you may be stopped and fined by the highway police for leaving snow and ice that may fly off and hit pedestrians or cars. Get a good scrape and a decent brush with a long-ish handle, and always bring warm gloves for the job. Good luck. 🙂

  22. I am from Down Under, and hardly seen Snow. However i am curious, How much time one spend on making car ready to drive each morning ? It seems a lot of work.

  24. I’ve always just hit that with the side of my covered hand (usually gloved). You don’t need an ice pick for that 😆

  27. You wanna have one of those snow brush + ice scraper things. Dont know the exact word, but they help a lot. You brush the snow off, turn on the heating and scrape all the windows

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