Jump in, start engine, press front and rear heated screen buttons, then scrape of the side windows front screen will be clear in less time than it takes to scrape the side windows........... I know not really helpful to you is it 

It beats me why people who have garages don't use them Some people on our road don't even bother to put their £20k plus car on the drive..... just leave it on the road or more annoying block the pavement and two wheels on the road ,

 

If i were to put my car in the garage I'd have to leave the motorbikes out on the drive.

It beats me why people who have garages don't use them Some people on our road don't even bother to put their £20k plus car on the drive..... just leave it on the road or more annoying block the pavement and two wheels on the road ,

 

You must have been down my road

It beats me why people who have garages don't use them Some people on our road don't even bother to put their £20k plus car on the drive..... just leave it on the road or more annoying block the pavement and two wheels on the road ,

 

Because a lot of modern cars don't fit the garages!

Because a lot of modern cars don't fit the garages!

No decent sized garages on new builds now, :(

Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Because a lot of modern cars don't fit the garages!

 

Quite! My Orion was a tight squeeze - only a few inches longer and the door wouldn't have closed. There was very little spare room to open the door once you had got the car in there. The Octavia wouldn't fit at all, so the garage got repurposed long before I got the Yeti! As it happens the Yeti is almost exactly the same length as the Orion, but is over a foot wider, so I'd have to stay in the car until it was time to drive it out again!

Jump in, start engine, press front and rear heated screen buttons, then scrape of the side windows front screen will be clear in less time than it takes to scrape the side windows........... I know not really helpful to you is it 

But it is exactly what I did this morning - nice & easy

I use warm, not hot water in a watering can. Direct onto roof rather than direct onto screen and windows. Takes seconds to clear the whole car and all windows remain defrosted long enough for your car to provide the heat to keep them that way.

I use one of this for my van http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/XL-WINDSCREEN-FROST-ICE-PROTECTOR-COVER-FOR-CAR-VANTRUCK-LORRY-225CM-x-100CM-/370711497607?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item5650208b87  .

 

Yeti has a heated screen only needs a press of a button  :clap:  .

I've previously used one of these on my Octy Scout.

http://www.gbdriver.co.uk/car-windscreen-side-window-mirror-frost-cover?zenid=cc67c57cf49d0ae2f480bb5878292aec

It's a bit of a faff to put on at first, but it works fairly well. One of the main a advantages of using this is the One Upmanship it gives you over the Heated Windscreen Brigade; no need to push a button or scrape the front side glass!

If you do purchase one of these, I'd suggest acquiring a strong bag to store it in when it is caked in frost/ice; Lidl Bag For Life is ideal.

Fin

No decent sized garages on new builds now, :(

 

There is on my selfbuild

 

Designed my garage, it's a detached double, I sized it so it could fit two of the largest cars on the market, with room for shelving & workbenches.

And it's got a loft I can walk around in too.

 

It's brilliant - the amount of crap I can fit in there is unprecedented. The cars are on the drive...

Forget warm wheat bags, ceramic heaters, Spraying on deicer......

Use Warm water...Been using it for many many years

Never had any problems at all and its almost instant

There is on my selfbuild

Designed my garage, it's a detached double, I sized it so it could fit two of the largest cars on the market, with room for shelving & workbenches.

And it's got a loft I can walk around in too.

It's brilliant - the amount of crap I can fit in there is unprecedented. The cars are on the drive...

I remember my father sizing his garage to take his Zephyr, mums Imp, the Sprite caravan and a small tractor to work his nowhere-near-big-enough-to-justify-even-a-small-tractor back garden.

Garage built, Zephyr changed for P5B, Imp for Renault 12 and Sprite for a Royale, so there was never enough space for the tractor.

Now it's home to a motorbike that's not been on the road for 15 years, a trailer (ditto), 3 lawnmowers and loads of junk.

The car lives on the drive.

No decent sized garages on new builds now, :(

Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

 

I work as a transport consultant to small housing developers. A lot of local authorities now will only consider a garage as a parking space if it is at least 7m long and 3m wide - so big enough to provide some storage yet still have space for a car to be parked. But this obviously costs more to build and requires more land than the old standard 5m long, 2.4m wide (or 16' by 8' as it was) garage so many developers don't bother with garages at all, just providing open spaces or, if you are lucky, a car port. This can mean the developer can get more new homes on a site but also, in the absence even of a small garage and with average room sizes in new houses seeming to get smaller as time goes on, has helped create the demand for off-site storage. So now its a double whammy. These days if you live in a small modern house to get to the stuff that you think you will probably will never need (but is "too good to throw away" and once would have put in the garage you have to drive to the place where you pay to store it - at this time of year pouring warm water over the windscreen so you can go and see if the missing ice scraper is in one of the numerous unmarked boxes. Such is progress I'm afraid.

On our road some families have three cars and as they can't be bothered to manoeuvre them around, so usually leave one on the drive and the others on the road. Others just fill their garage with junk and kids toys etc. My Yeti used to fit my garage easily, but my Qashqai needs the mirrors folding in as I pass through the entrance as it is some what wider. Luckily the auto mirrors can my manually over ridden by a button press on the door and I bring them in as the wing mirrors pass through and out again when I pass the narrow bit. But you are correct in stating new build garages are too small.

On our road some families have three cars and as they can't be bothered to manoeuvre them around, so usually leave one on the drive and the others on the road. Others just fill their garage with junk and kids toys etc. My Yeti used to fit my garage easily, but my Qashqai needs the mirrors folding in as I pass through the entrance as it is some what wider. Luckily the auto mirrors can my manually over ridden by a button press on the door and I bring them in as the wing mirrors pass through and out again when I pass the narrow bit. But you are correct in stating new build garages are too small.

Wouldn't do for me, too many senior moments.  

 

Fred

Just got a yeti that was dealer stock so no option to have heated screen as not fitted but New heated screen for a yeti is £260 for me to buy in & if/when it needs a new screen I will put one in at the time and wire it up...until then I'll use the same method as most & use a sheet/plastic...or walk : )

I used warm water as usual this morning, I mistimed it a bit and it froze on the windscreen.   Spent the next few minutes sitting in the car with the heated front and rear screens and the heated seat on.  It's always good to have a back up plan.

It's always good to have a back up plan.

And a warm bum.

Sent from my Nexus 4 using Tapatalk

I just visited B&Q and my wife (the Lioness) picked up a Universal Windscreen and

Side Window Cover, (it also covers the mirrors!) expensive at £7 (but she paid for it).

It fits my Yeti screen and sidewindows and is made of tyvek material and comes with

its own stuff bag.

The car port that I built at the side of the house back in 1984 was the best investment I ever made!

At 4.7m long it'll fit one car and my trailer and is just wide enough for the Yeti (which is why I didn't buy a Freelander 2 - it was too wide). Car dries itself nicely overnight on wet days, windows hardly ever freeze (once every couple of years) so no scraping of ice - brilliant!

 

Ok, I can't get the wheelie bins past when Yeti is snoozing there, but planning ahead for bin day is a small price to pay!

 

Smug eh? !!

 

Incidentally, the ice that you all have to scrape off each morning is caused by heavy dew condensing and then freezing on anything that's cold & left in the open. Stop the dew forming & there;ll be nothing to scrape off.. So if you can raise the temperature or shade the glass you'll get no ice. There are some treatments that stop the dew forming. Or you can wipe over the screen with glycerine or (so I'm told) a lemon, and the dew just runs off and so there's nothing there to freeze. Allegedly!

The issue I sometimes get is that I can't open the door to get the engine on in the first place, as the doors freeze shut easily. I have to use warm water on the rubber seals to get it open. Haven't risked it on the glass vey often though, as I'm worried I'll crack the windscreen..

You wont crack the screen using warm water

The issue I sometimes get is that I can't open the door to get the engine on in the first place, as the doors freeze shut easily. I have to use warm water on the rubber seals to get it open. Haven't risked it on the glass vey often though, as I'm worried I'll crack the windscreen..

 

I use lukewarm water on the windscreen and I've never had a problem.

The issue I sometimes get is that I can't open the door to get the engine on in the first place, as the doors freeze shut easily. I have to use warm water on the rubber seals to get it open. Haven't risked it on the glass vey often though, as I'm worried I'll crack the windscreen..

Gummi Pflege might solve your door seal problem. Google is your friend.

 

Fred