Thanks for the reminder. I shall put it on my wishlist. Hopefully Santa knows which one to buy. Of course he does. His reindeers know all about frozen tail lights.I bought a new ice scraper that has also a rubber scraper.
Of course.Yes, of course it needs more energy, but more energy doesn't mean more power. The same power for a longer time is also more energy.
For lenses front or rear for surface scratches I use AutoGlym Resin polish, polishes them out quite easily.
Sounds great advice Alex. The only small comment I would add (and this may be down to differences in terminology between the UK and NZ) is that sandpaper doesn't usually take kindly to water. I would use 2000 grade wet-or-dry paper. I've never used finer than 1000 myself yet, but I haven't tried polishing out scratches to plastic lenses either.
Would you recommend a very slow trickle from a hose pipe whilst sanding?And I'll just add that you need to use plenty of water when sanding plastic, use only a gentle pressure and be very careful not to let it overheat.
It's frighteningly easy to burn plastic when sanding, especially if you're using power tools.
With practice, you might be surprised at how good a result you can achieve.
Would you recommend a very slow trickle from a hose pipe whilst sanding?
The problem with de-frosting without the engine running is, no matter which method you use, the inside glass steams up, especially when a body gets inside.
Frosty morning this morning.I've been thinking about this.
I'm not sure that you're correct, though I would expect that SOME cars would do it. Maybe it's because for the past 15 years, I've only had vehicles with air con, so the inside of the cars are always dry as a bone. Maybe there isn't enough moisture inside the car to steam up the windows?
Our air con is on permanently with the engine running, and is never switched off.
No doubt if I were wet, or breathed directly onto the glass, it would mist up, but I can't remember ever having the windows steaming up when I've defrosted them.
I'll check again when we next have a frost, but a week or so ago it was minus5 degC when I defrosted the Clio ready for Mrs Mick F to go to work, and she didn't mist up at all .......... because I'd have seen and she would have had to have waited before driving away.
As I say, I'll check again, and check properly, next time.
Chucked warm water on the screen of the 500TA to remove the frost, and got in and started up and drove away down the drive.
No misting up at all on the front window, even with two of us in.