Paul

What do you guys do to warm up the car faster? I hate sitting in the car for 20 mins and still not able to get the ice off the windows? I rev the engine to 4k rpm a few times... but that doesnt help

NSXNEXT

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As soon as you start the car, put one of these in front of the accelerator pedal.

eclipse23

remote starter owns ju.

Red-CL

dallison

i use the prestone deicer and spray it on the windows, so i don't scratch the windows with a scraper

Doc.Booty

It'll take 2 minutes of driving after you let the car warm up for 30 seconds to get that heat going real well. Just be a man and scrape the ice off.

98CLChick

Start it while you scrape the ice and snow off, and drive it. Mine gets warm in a few minutes.

dallison

park the car in the sun??

iamhomin

I'm missing the connection between revving and defrosting.

I personally scrape the rear, front, side, while my engine's on. Max~5 minutes.

CLUofI

Slooo97CL

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when its 17 degrees outside the cabin temperature is not going to melt the ice off the outside windows.

Beelzebub

spray a little alcohol on the windshield breaks up the ice quick

joeshmoe

Piss on the windshield.

95gt

^^^^

anothercls

I thought I was going to have to piss on my car to unfreeze the door....last winter I could not get my door open so I had to go through the passenger side.

Beelzebub

Alcohol. works wonders, put a little cheap vodka in a spray bottle and spray the lock. That is all the de-icers that you buy are.

Paul

I do scrape the ice, it just wont come off. I guess I should pick up some deicer, or get a better scraper.

Crazy Bimmer

or throw it at the window, that should take care of any ice.

underdog

Get a block heater installed. The car gets up to operating temp, and starts blowing warm
air a lot quicker.

Crazy Bimmer

can that be used even if the car is parked outside?

underdog

The block heater? Definitely! My car lives outside (the garage is too
full of toys ) and the block heater makes a big difference. On mornings like
today when its -30C, it cranks at almost normal speed. But without the block
heater, cranking is like "wuh-(pause)-wuh-(pause)-wuh" - say a prayer, cross
your fingers, swing a frozen cat over your head 3 times - and maybe it'll start!

Just kidding about the prayer ............

Shawn S

It was SIX degrees outside today and a balmy TWENTY TWO inside the garage.
But at least I didn’t have to scrape ice.

anothercls

It isn't the lock, it is the door that gets stuck with ice between it and the door jamb.

Zapata

9 when i got my start this morning....lol that clutch was nice slow.

Beelzebub

It works there also. Used to have to do it to my old honda when it was parked out side and there was an ice storm. Froze all my doors closed.

anothercls

good idea, now I have to get some cheap alcohol...no reason to use bombay sapphire on my car..

CrockPot

you can always move to sunny socal. i hear it's going to be a chilly 75 degrees today.

Zapata

NoCal is nice too. Prolly be an easier transition for somebody from the NE. Winter still fells like winter.

KissMy_Type_S

Anyone know someplace willing to put Remote Start in a 6-Spd?

proaudio22

I wish cars had RPM cruise instead of speed. Diesel trucks are awesome b/c you can jump in and set the cruise on 1K rpm (like 2500-3000 in our cars) and get the sucker heated up pretty quick while you wait inside.

Vector02

PLUS



= Hot friggin car. (t3h hawtness)

zigzagzig

reppin DC area

phile

Does alcohol have any adverse effects on the windshield or paint?

NSX-Tuner

And make sure you're not smoking when you do this.

NSX-Tuner

Too bad you're not located in the Bay Area, CA. There's a Good Guys installer who said he would install a remote starter in my 6MT if I wanted it. But since I don't have to deal with ice on the window very often here I opted not to do the install.

proaudio22

Any reputable shop should be able to do it. There are LOTS of precautions they have to take (all kinds of fscking interlocks, etc). If they don't want to do it they A) don't have great insurance or B) they are lazy.

proaudio22

I hope not b/c this is whats in all the window cleaning products.

Chief F1 Fan

You should never ever rev a cold engine, tho it may not be so bad if you're using synthetic motor oil. I hear Mobil is coming out w/ a new line of synthetics that are supposed to increase change interval to 10K and 15K. Prestone de-icer ownz ju.

Pure Adrenaline

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Revving it up kind of negates the point of warming up the engine.

NiteQwill

Why would you rev a cold engine?

You're just asking for trouble......