Ice Scraper Season... what`s your favorite scraper

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ShawnF350

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I woke up this morning with a thick frost on my windows. Scraper barely cleaned.
Time for a new scraper.
When we got to work, a co-worker used
his brass bladed scraper on the company vehicle, which I was impressed with.
Is a metal bladed scraper a bad idea?
Would you let your wife use one on her car?
What`s the best affordable scraper to buy that works?
 
Best Scraper - Leave the car in the garage ;-)

All scrapers IMO are relatively the same/similar....on the plastic ones.
Picked up the dual headed brass. High Reviews. Was not my cup of tea.

I just tend to start the car, let the heat get going and come back to the windows when the heat has started melting the base of it.
Makes it a whole lot easier than scraping
 
Haven`t used it yet but the Ice Master Multi-Blade Ice Scraper certainly appears to be a bad Mama-Jama as far as ice scrapers go.
 
No matter what scraper you decide on, do yourself a favor and buy a can of this.

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My car stays outside in the Winter and this stuff is a lifesaver. Don`t bother using the scraper on the can. It will break the first time you use it.

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A few years ago I started using a windshield cover to prevent icy build up. Great device when you know to use it... but on unexpected mornings like this I`ll fill up a spray bottle with window washer fluid, soak the windshield, and then squeegee off whatever slushy ice the guild hasn`t melted away. Easy pezeey.
 
Angus -

Genius idea...
I never really considered those deicing sprays....I was concerned the atomized air spray of alcohol product would touch my LSP...
 
@ mobiledynamics
My wife gets the garage. So no choice for me..lol
@dshribs
I actually forgot I have a can or 2 in the garage.

@Angus
I`ve considered a windshield cover. But I`ve seen people at work tried cardboard in the past. It rained, iced and snowed and the thing was frozen solid to the windshield.
Would that shield not stick?

I`m making a spray bottle of the windshield fluid tonight. I`ve got gallon s of that.
For some reason one of my sprayers in the hood wasn`t spraying this morning either. But I hate When the wipers wipe anyway when spraying the eindshield that way.
 
Whatever you do... dont use a shovel. lol!

All plastic scrapers perform just about the same, the technique is to use the "VVVVVVV" side to break up the ice, then the flat side to scrape it off. i have about 3 or 4, 1 dollar? or was it 1.20... anyway scrapers that work perfectly, one is in the house for when I park in the streets, one is in the back yard for when I park in the yard..., and 1 in my car and 1.. somewhere... if I still have it.
 
I can remember using a CD case a number of times because the ice caught me off guard and I forgot to put a scraper in my car.
 
dschribs said:
I can remember using a CD case a number of times because the ice caught me off guard and I forgot to put a scraper in my car.
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Drivers license/credit card really come in handy!

I have bent my drivers license many times, so I have taken to using my cc only. If they bend/break, the CC sends you a new one for free! DMV, not so much.
 
ShawnF350 said:
@Angus
I`ve considered a windshield cover. But I`ve seen people at work tried cardboard in the past. It rained, iced and snowed and the thing was frozen solid to the windshield.
Would that shield not stick?
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Nope, it doesn`t stick at all. My guess is the main difference between using a nylon cover vs cardboard is water absorption. I bet the cardboard held water and thats why it froze to the windshield.

ShawnF350 said:
I`m making a spray bottle of the windshield fluid tonight. I`ve got gallon s of that.
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:bigups
 
Looks like McKee`s just dropped a new Anti-Frost Wiper Fluid:

McKee

Timely considering this thread! But at $15 a bottle... I hope it has excellent dilution ratios.

I wonder if you could spray it on neat instead?
 
Out of curiosity, are there any highly hydrophobic windshield coatings that would help with releasing ice and snow? Maybe even some waxes that aren`t normally thought of as glass treatments?
 
Being old and in paradise... What is the need for an ice scraper? I mean frostless freezers and refrigerators have been around for a decade or so......
 
Neither my wife nor I park outside long enough for it to be an issue, and if things do ice over we just sit there until the defroster melts it. We keep Boar`s Hair Windshield Brushes in the vehicles just in case, but I can`t recall ever using their plastic scrapers.

But I did get one of the fancy metal-bladed ones for a pal last Christmas, and she really likes it.

And...heh heh...anything I`d use myself would be given to my wife with zero reservations ;)
 
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