<p>Me and some friends went to a kids house last night, and wet his car down, and then poured a bunch of 3lb bags of ice on his car. It's about 0 degrees right now. How does he remove the ice with out chipping paint, or cracking the windshield?</p>
<p>hair dryer? Garage? </p>
<p>Oh wait, that wouldn't work. The hair dryer would though</p>
<p>Get some buckets of hot water to melt the ice?</p>
<p>Oh and try putting antifreeze on it, too.</p>
<p>Correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't hot water crack the windows because of uneven heat distribution?</p>
<p>That wouldn't do anything... antifreeze is just a substance added to water in its liquid form to lower the freezing point. But since it's already frozen, it would do nothing to melt the ice...</p>
<p>Antifreeze seems like the best thing then...I suppose</p>
<p>get ahold of some propylene glycol.</p>
<p>That's used for deicing</p>
<p>:-P</p>
<p>The kid could aslo turn on his car and turn the defrosters on and put th heat all the way up and leave it like that until the ice melts.</p>
<p>Wouldn't the defroster do the same thing as the hot water? Really warm on one side, really cold on the other= cracks in the middle (windshield). I'd image the best bet is to just put in the garage for a few hours, then use defroster on medium setting. What do you guys think?</p>
<p>Or apparently at your local hardware stores they have aerosol window deicing products...</p>
<p>Oh the power of google</p>
<p>If you can get in the car, use the garage. That's easiest.</p>
<p>kinglin, that was def. not nice :(</p>
<p>kinda funny though, I bet :D</p>
<p>the antifreeze might help a little...it's what I do every morning bc I'm too lazy to just put it into the reservoir under the hood</p>
<p>Well I'm going to drive over there, and see what havok I've caused. Have to watch it though, he claims he called the cops.</p>
<p>Just hope he's not on CC!</p>
<p>Well my friend said he accualy put 20lbs of ice on his windshield, yikes. Anyways didn't look that bad when I took a look at it. Well then again, I just saw it from the road.</p>
<p>That's hilarious. And very very mean. But still hilarious.</p>
<p>what ended up happening, keep us updated!</p>
<p>Well I sit by the kid at lunch, but was unable to see him, because I was sick today. All I know is that he won't answer his phone, or talk to me on AIM. I'll see tomorrow what his thoughts are of it, granted I go to school tomorrow.</p>
<p>Just for future reference, in case anyone cares, I have one of those insta-hot faucets in my house and every day as I'm walking out the door I just fill up a bucket of 120 degree water and toss it on my car. So far, no windshield cracks (and I've been doing it every winter for 2 years now).</p>
<p>:)</p>