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Originally Posted by billdan
I remember living in Canberra well, having to get a bucket of warm water to melt the ice on the windscreen each morning, before going to work.
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A few years ago, we were on a driving holiday through central Europe in the middle of winter. We were surprised at the number of people we saw walking out of their apartments in the morning, carrying what we took to be a steaming hot mug of tea or coffee. We were even more mystified when we saw them pouring it out over their car's door locks.
And then one night, our rental car's door locks froze up, and we worked out what was going on!
It just took a little bit of heat on the outside of the door lock to defrost the lock so you could open the door, and the locks wouldn't freeze again during the day, but would freeze up every night, for weeks on end.
I imagine BMWs and Mercedes come with heated door locks these days?
(Not something I have to worry about much in Brisbane!)
We once also made the huge mistake of using a cup of mildly warm water to try defrost the outside of the windscreen - it froze instantly on contact into a sheet of ice a couple of mm thick! From then on, we stuck with the tried and true method of scraping the frost off using a credit card.