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Using vinegar to deice your car windscreen

The last few weeks have really given us the oppor­tun­ity to test out our car dei­cing tech­niques.

One that we neg­lected to men­tion was this one, cour­tesy of Auto­trader. It’s billed as stop-​​gap if you run out of ‘proper’ deicer.

Mix up a ⁵⁰⁄₅₀ solu­tion of house­hold vin­egar and water, place in a old plastic bottle with a hole cut in its lid and squeeze lib­er­ally across your car win­dows. Then simply scrape off the res­ult­ing sludge with an ice scraper or (not-​​to-​​be-​​used-​​again-​​for transactional-​​purposes) credit card.

Having tried brown malt vin­egar over the last couple of weeks, we have to say it does leave the glass shiny, albeit with the odd whiff remin­is­cent of fish and chips.

Though def­in­itely no need to add salt.

For more hints and tips for coping with the cold, see Living’s advice on winter driv­ing.

IMAGE image by Flickr user malias

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Ori­gin­ally posted 2007-​​12-​​21 20:02:00. Repub­lished by Blog Post Promoter

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