A NASA engineer has the best advice you can get when it comes to de-icing your car.
When you’re rushing to work and come outside to see that there is a thick layer of frost on your car, it can be a tough time indeed.
However, it doesn’t have to be that way.
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Instead of potentially being late and getting a rollocking from your boss, you can simply listen to TikToker @eden_tyres_and_servicing.
The automotive experts, which are based in the West Midlands, explained: “Here is the best way to defrost your windscreen according to a former NASA engineer.”
Can you guess what it is?
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Well, there’s a whole process to it so go and grab a pen and come back when you’re ready.
Got it? Okay, good.
The four-step method to defrosting your car
So, the first thing you’re going to need to do is to get in your car and ‘turn on the car heater immediately at full blast’.
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Then, you have to ‘turn on the car’s air conditioning, which will help soak up the remainder of any moisture inside’.
Once the above two have been completed, don’t forget to ‘turn off the car air circulation button’.
This is because, when it’s turned on, the ‘humidity is trapped inside’, which creates a nice bit of warmth.
Now, the last thing to do is ‘slightly unexpected’ as you now have to ‘open all of the car windows only ever so slightly.’
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While it sounds like you’re undoing your first steps, in reality, ‘this will help exchange humidity in the car for the dry air that’s outside, and voila, a nice defrosted windscreen’.
After doing all of this for the hack, you’ll have successfully defrosted your car and you’ll be off to work in no time.
Now, it’s not known who this NASA engineer is, so take that part with a pinch of salt.
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But it’s not just the TikToker who gave great advice as the commenters knew a trick or two too.
One commenter said: “Slight warm water in a bottle and boom 5 secs later. Being doing it for 27 years and no smashed window.”
To be honest, it’s definitely not a good idea to do that one as you very well might crack or smash your window.
There’s a reason why you shouldn’t introduce something hot to something frozen as you’ve all probably seen what happens to a Pyrex dish once it’s been taken out of the oven and placed on a cool counter- shattered glass everywhere.
Someone else suggested an alternative, writing: “A sealed plastic bag with water slightly above cold. Not even tepid. Rub all over windows. Works every time.”
Below tepid water might work.
Another simply uses the age-old heating trick, commenting: “My car doesn’t have these fancy buttons. I have to turn my car on and wait for the heating to heat up, which takes about 20-25 mins.”
Though, it appears that they use this method by force and not by choice.
Someone else suggested: “Ice scraper, proper Job, £1.99, takes 5 mins.”
So, next time your car is freezing and you’re in a rush, try what the auto shop suggests.
Britt Jones