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so past few days ive had ice forming INSIDE the car on the windscreen?

i have to scrape it off, puttin ice everywhere making me look like a snowman!....

but having the ice go everywhere is creating water in the air... and just makes it ice up again?! ... what the hell do i do? .. cant see anywhere water would be getting in or how its got in... but its not nice in the mornings

any ideas?

get the heater on in the car, make it really hot in there with a rear window or sunroof slightly open. should manage to remove plenty of moisture from inside the car, but don't forget it has been exceptionally cold (for southern britain) recently.

maddogmorg said:

get the heater on in the car, make it really hot in there with a rear window or sunroof slightly open. should manage to remove plenty of moisture from inside the car, but don't forget it has been exceptionally cold (for southern britain) recently.

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do you mean like... do that now, this time of day? or in the morning?

Cheers
Billy

ever had problems with damp in the car before? is it just small bit of ice or thickish all over it?

if you stick the heater on and leave it a while in the morning, it'll defrost the windows and evaporate the moisture. always think this is the best way of doing it.

never had any problems with damp.. altho ive only had it for about 6 months now... just opened the rear window and put the heatign on for about 15 mins.. will have a look in the morning and its really thick ice.. thicker than ive ever had on the outside!

with the snow its getting worse - i too have ice inside - if you think - everytime u get in the car with snow on ya feet and then drive off it melts to water evaporayes whilst heatings on then as the temp drops condenses on the window and ices over - as above blast heater to full and slightly open sun roof - hot air rises and will take steam out with it

i think fiat have **** seals too wich allow a lot of water in

I've had same problem once or twice when I forgot to leave my windows slightly open overnight (I have wind/rain deflectors on front windows).
I also had, what I thought, was a major problem with water ingress.
I had water constantly dripping from the plastic moulding around the windscreen (I have a shelf above the screen).
Removing the plastic showed this wasn''t a problem with the screen (thank God) so I thought it might be the aerial roof mount (which was a tad slack).
Removing the headlining uncovered the real problem - the underside of the roof was sodden with condensation The headlining is compressed car with a fluffy outside (car interior and a glossy inside) and water dripping onto the glossy part simply ran to the front where the shape of the roof diverted it to the edges!.
I've dabbed it all off, had the heaters on full and the windows slightly open all week and it hasn't recurred so everything's back together again & fingers crossed.

So it seems the answer is, if you have the heating on, you need the windows slightly open to let the moist, hot air out.
Also ensure the vents aren't on recirc - this will force fresh air into the car as you drive.

I've owned a couple of vehicles in the past which have had vents at the back. With the fans on and the doors etc shut you could feel the air being blasted out.
With a couple of lorries at work, it's impossible to slam the doors as they wouldn't catch properly or the glass would shatter - all because of the pressure build up.
Although the lorries had vent outlets, these were just for show - the designers put them there for some sort of aesthetically pleasing look (???).
To solve the problem of shutting the doors, the mechs simply hacked a large hole either side of the cab (behind the outside vent) and covered it with a speaker grill & thin foam.

I must remember to ask if they ever had problems with ice inside & if this cured that problem.

yeah thought about all that ... i did what was said in the previous post by leaving the window open... no problems anymore!

Hi, I have the same problem with ice only a bit worse
I have a Punto 55 and ice forms on windows even while I'm driving (i can only get the windshield and the upper edges of the sides clean) and i can't figure out what it might be. This is my first car....
And this happens even when the heat is at max. I'm positive there are no leaks...almost at least I just poured something in my coolant that should stop that kind of leaks.
And i do have air circling inside but the weather here gets so cold that I really want to keep all the heat I get inside, not take in more of cold air....
Can anyone please help

Tsess said:

Hi, I have the same problem with ice only a bit worse
I have a Punto 55 and ice forms on windows even while I'm driving (i can only get the windshield and the upper edges of the sides clean) and i can't figure out what it might be. This is my first car....
And this happens even when the heat is at max. I'm positive there are no leaks...almost at least I just poured something in my coolant that should stop that kind of leaks.
And i do have air circling inside but the weather here gets so cold that I really want to keep all the heat I get inside, not take in more of cold air....
Can anyone please help

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i can imagine, what sort of temperatures you getting there in Estonia? have you tried a rear window BARELY, just the slightest bit, open. also recircling is just going to return all the warm moist air which is full of the evaporated water from the windscreen? not entirely sure on that one, what's the heat like out the heater when outside air is selected?

also is the engine getting fully upto temperature? Also if there is a pollen filter on the car, might be worth replacing incase it's damp?

Yeah, the weather is really nice here
To be honest I haven't opened the window even the slightest bit and air is always circling inside. I recently had to drive for 2h on a freeway on 90km/h and the cabinet and the air in it never got warm enough so I really didn't feel like taking any extra air in...
but I suppose there is heat coming in since the windows almost clear up when I stand with engine working for about ten minutes with heating and air intensity at max. (at least the front windows)

I read a lot about it before posting and the most possible reason seemed to be cabinet air filter...but it was mentioned so seldom that I wasn't sure. And can that even make all of the ice appear?
And since the engine has always started with no problems even with really low temperatures, and is working nicely I can't imagine it's not producing the heat needed....

hmmmm, it should surely be good enough to heat up a punto completely? what is the air coming out the heater like, temperature wise, does it feel hot?

might be worth bleeding the system if the heater isn't fully hot yet the engine temp is at the right temp, https://www.fiatforum.com/punto-guides/43906-how-bleed-punto-cooling-system.html is the guide to it. tomorrow or even later you might get some other punto owners to say how they've been finding it in the colder weather.

Well, it doesn't really feel hot, more like warm Should it be hot?
On upcoming days I won't have a chance to bleed the system since the car stands outside and it is too cold for that action here though I plan to check the cabin air filter. But I should bleed the system because You think there is air somewhere it shouldn't be...?
Can some blocking in the pollen filter maybe cause the ice

Bleeding was the answer for my problem

Check that the heater isn't recycling the air. It needs to be on the setting which draws fresh air in. Had the same issue on a corsa a few years ago - this solved it.

I Used my interior sponge to mop up as much moisture as possible (After the heaters melted it all).... I took the sponge into work and left it to dry all day ontop of a really hot heater.

Sponge the moisture off the windows.... take the moisture out within the sponge and evaporate it elsewhere. That was my remedy.

It was so bad that i too was left looking like a snowman after scraping the insides! Its sorted now... if it comes back i'll do the same thing

A good way of clearing moisture and keeping it out in a car is to get an old sock and fill it with cheap dried rice.

Or save all the little sachets of silica gel you get when you buy electrical goods and scatter them around the interior.