Frozen Windows And Mirrors

[Technoman]

Hi

Just a word of advice. Because i park my car on the driveway it is exposed to the frost during the night and i usually fold in my mirrors with the electric button when i park up. Now i live on the south coast and it got to -3c last night and when i got in the car this morning the frozen mirrors would not move out when i pushed the button. Also the electric windows had frozen up. Even after driving 6 miles to work they had not thawed out with the heated rear window on. Just a heads up maybe leave them out if your not worried about them getting ripped off by passing traffic in the icy weather.

[stevet]

And leave the wipers off auto.

[johnatg]

In cold countries like Norway they fold the wiper arms up off the screen when they park at night. Probably a good idea, but I can never remember to do it!

I did once totally destroy the wiper mechanism (on a Vauxhall Cavalier, I think) because they'd been left switched on and were frozen to the screen. Very inconvenient start to the day - no way you're going to be able to drive anywhere on a cold frosty morning with salted roads with no wipers!

[Verbout]

Before I built a car port my wife car used to be left on the drive to get covered in ice. She religiously covered the windscreen in an old bedding sheet. It works a treat, I couldn't be bothered and had to scrape, set off, stop up the road, scrape, set off again etc etc.

[steve2006]

A top half car cover maybe?

[Fishboy]

After a 25 mile commute at 7 this morning my mirrors nearly didn't fold in when parking up this morning. No problems folding back out this evening as it was a balmy 3° in Gloucester.

[PhilipK]

I guess that I may get to use the "electrically heated bottom few inches of the windscreen" on my SE-L for the first time tomorrow morning!