warm water to frozen windows

[Shorty]

About what I would expect from someone who drives an automatic transmission. Real jeeps are sticks...

set parking brake, chock wheels, park in neutral, and bypass clutch start switch-- remote start will give you more time to surf porn.... err in the A.M.

my only concern with that plan is the crummy ignition circuit carrying the load from the blower motor during each start-- I think the "melted brown wire" syndrome will result

 

[winterbeater]

If anybody pours water on my windows, I'll kick their butts. No water near my cars in the winter. Just more shit to freeze up later.

 

[Wallyman]

Move to texas.... We had snow and ice this year but usually i use an ice scraper about 3 days out of the year and its always done in about 5 mins.

 

[srimes]

EDIT: oh yeah... break the ice on your roof up into fist sized pieces and if you have time, push it off the roof. You don't want to kill some poor guy on the highway when it all peels off at once and lands on his windshield.

No way. Teach the bastards not to follow so close.

 

[RichP]

The other thing I do on all the jeeps in the late fall is spray the rubber seals around all the doors with silicone spray, keeps them from freezing shut and then having to rip the seal off to get the door open.

 

[kastein]

Put a towel across the windshield with the wipers resting on top of the towel.

In the morning lift the wipers off the towel, pry the towel off the windshield, start the engine and drive off.

No water, no scraper, enuff said.

Around here if I do that, I get to chisel a soaked, frozen solid towel off my windshield :shocked:

set parking brake, chock wheels, park in neutral, and bypass clutch start switch-- remote start will give you more time to surf porn.... err in the A.M.

my only concern with that plan is the crummy ignition circuit carrying the load from the blower motor during each start-- I think the "melted brown wire" syndrome will result

That's something I was just thinking about, though I think it'd be fine as long as your remote start's relays and wiring can handle the current properly, unlike the OEM wiring.

No way. Teach the bastards not to follow so close.

I'd agree, but: http://www.naxja.org/forum/showthread.php?t=1005775

Happened when I was approx. 100 feet behind, and a lane over from a minivan with a roof full of ice on i290. If it'd hit edge first and 3 feet to the left I would likely be dead, and my XJ would be totaled.

tailgaters have two ways to learn not to follow me closely... my broken rear washer fluid sprayer (yay for the OEM tailgater squirtgun), and my trailer hitch and brake pedal.

 

[RichP]

First off I never use my parking brake, unless it's an extreme hill or something. In the winter even less, setting your parking brake after a winter drive is just asking for an early morning session with a propane torch to unfreeze your brake shoes to your drums. Been there, done that a few times, parents did that a few times though not often, they had a two car garage.

 

[winkosmosis]

I don't like leaving an idling vehicle sitting for long periods. It creates an opportunity to get carbon monoxide and other fumes in the cabin, and if it's close enough to your house, in the house.

I use warm or lukewarm water. Not hot.

 

[IslanderOffRoad]

I never have lived in snow, but still would get windshield ice in California.

Never had a garage parking space at my parents house.

I'd just run a little water straight from the hose; cold, but still warmer than ice. Then use the wipers/defroster/washer fluid to finish it off.

 

[kastein]

Just blew up a windshield last night... didn't even have to use warm water!

Finished replacing the thermostat in my friend's MJ (as I expected, it was stuck wide open), while testing it with the heat on full, a tiny rock chip in the windshield suddenly became a 10" crack right in front of the driver's seat. If it isn't one thing, it's another!

 

[wim hoppenbrouwers]

Just blew up a windshield last night... didn't even have to use warm water!

Finished replacing the thermostat in my friend's MJ (as I expected, it was stuck wide open), while testing it with the heat on full, a tiny rock chip in the windshield suddenly became a 10" crack right in front of the driver's seat. If it isn't one thing, it's another!

Wow. I do not taken any responsibility. Was it the hot coffee method?

wim

 

[ChiXJeff]

First off I never use my parking brake, unless it's an extreme hill or something. In the winter even less, setting your parking brake after a winter drive is just asking for an early morning session with a propane torch to unfreeze your brake shoes to your drums. Been there, done that a few times, parents did that a few times though not often, they had a two car garage.

I've never had parking brakes freeze up with slush. And mine get used every time I stop.

 

[kastein]

Wow. I do not taken any responsibility. Was it the hot coffee method?

wim

Yeah, pretty much :roflmao: Replaced the thermostat, friend was busy going "holy crap my heat works" then he looks up and goes "uh THAT wasn't there when I got home from work!" It looks like the tiny rock chip neither of us even noticed had a very small side split coming off of it, and since the thermostat was stuck when he bought the MJ it'd never been stressed by the heat actually working right.

 

[Blue 97 XJ]

what do you all do about frozen washer nozzles, im now in Boone NC and the very first i drove up they froze and have been since i got hear. and NO i DO NOT use water i think the last time i filled the windshield washer fluid tank i use the normal blue stuff.

 

[ChiXJeff]

what do you all do about frozen washer nozzles, im now in Boone NC and the very first i drove up they froze and have been since i got hear. and NO i DO NOT use water i think the last time i filled the windshield washer fluid tank i use the normal blue stuff.

Make sure that what you use does have a low freeze point. For instance, Prestone bug juice doesn't, and will freeze just like water.

I've been running Rain-X windshield washer fluid for at least 3 years, and even at -20 F, it doesn't show any signs of freezing.

 

[UNCC_99XJ]

set parking brake, chock wheels, park in neutral, and bypass clutch start switch-- remote start will give you more time to surf porn.... err in the A.M.

Exactly!

my only concern with that plan is the crummy ignition circuit carrying the load from the blower motor during each start-- I think the "melted brown wire" syndrome will result

Usually, I don't have to leave the defroster on...gotten into the part of winter where it's super dry and super cold...so frost usually isn't an issue. I mainly just remote start it to get some heat in the engine before I go.

 

[UNCC_99XJ]

what do you all do about frozen washer nozzles, im now in Boone NC and the very first i drove up they froze and have been since i got hear. and NO i DO NOT use water i think the last time i filled the windshield washer fluid tank i use the normal blue stuff.

Normal blue stuff has a freeze point of -20*F. Sounds to me like you got water in there somehow (possibly condensation of some sort over time)

 

[RichP]

I've never had parking brakes freeze up with slush. And mine get used every time I stop.

I have, three times, it sucks because it never happens when you have plenty of time, it only happens when you are behind schedule.

Oh, that drives are sata.

 

[srimes]

why not just drive through it? The breaks will heat up and melt the ice... maybe. Let us know how it works.

 

[Shorty]

Normal blue stuff has a freeze point of -20*F. Sounds to me like you got water in there somehow (possibly condensation of some sort over time)

unless you bought your smurf piss....err blue water in Florida-- the stuff I sold when I lived there froze with 32* (even before when driving at speed it seemed)