When defrosting wons car.

[Pokster]

What’s the point of the rear window having heating and defrosts in 30 seconds yet the windscreen takes a year.

Nobody looks out the back. Plus being a city boy I am not used to this malarkey.

Own a Ford, front clears in seconds

[Sir C]

Own a Ford, front clears in seconds

Heated windscreens are great! Until you get a stone chip, and a new screen costs a grand

[Burney]

Heated windscreens are great! Until you get a stone chip, and a new screen costs a grand

I just do the thing where I heat up my car before I get into it. I can happily munch my breakfast while it gets on with making everything nice and toasty for me when I get into it. It was lovely this morning. It was tropical in there.

[Pokster]

I just do the thing where I heat up my car before I get into it. I can happily munch my breakfast while it gets on with making everything nice and toasty for me when I get into it. It was lovely this morning. It was tropical in there.

And when your car gets stolen the insurance company wont pay out

[Sir C]

And when your car gets stolen the insurance company wont pay out

Yes, that is indeed the danger, unless one lives in a gated, walled compound, safe from pikies and common elements.

[Burney]

And when your car gets stolen the insurance company wont pay out

LOL! I don't live in the north, p. I live on a nice quiet cul-de-sac full of nice, respectable old people that no-one ever comes down. I can also see my car on the drive from where I'm eating breakfast, so it would require a remarkably adept car thief to achieve this feat.

[Herbert Augustus Chapman]

LOL! I don't live in the north, p. I live on a nice quiet cul-de-sac full of nice, respectable old people that no-one ever comes down. I can also see my car on the drive from where I'm eating breakfast, so it would require a remarkably adept car thief to achieve this feat.

And what of the appalling and profligate waste of fuel and the needless pollution of the atmosphere just because you want to step into a warm car? * You are single-handedly responsible for the impending climate catastrophe!

BTW, thieves don't tend to saunter up to the car and give you a little wave before making themselves comfortable, strapping themselves in and cautiously exiting your driveway b. They tend to be sickeningly quick at what they do, rather like weasels.

* may do the same thing myself.

[Burney]

And what of the appalling and profligate waste of fuel and the needless pollution of the atmosphere just because you want to step into a warm car? * You are single-handedly responsible for the impending climate catastrophe!

BTW, thieves don't tend to saunter up to the car and give you a little wave before making themselves comfortable, strapping themselves in and cautiously exiting your driveway b. They tend to be sickeningly quick at what they do, rather like weasels.

* may do the same thing myself.

What of it?

And, because I don't live in some shíthole like London or the north, I'm prepared to take the risk that there aren't hordes of opportunistic car thieves prowling the streets at 6.30 on a freezing weekday morning. Call me a devil-may-care renegade, but there we are.

[Pokster]

LOL! I don't live in the north, p. I live on a nice quiet cul-de-sac full of nice, respectable old people that no-one ever comes down. I can also see my car on the drive from where I'm eating breakfast, so it would require a remarkably adept car thief to achieve this feat.

They would take 1 long look at you and carry on regardless, your hands have never beaten the daylights out of anyone I'd guess (this sounds like a Blackadder sketch)

[Sir C]

They would take 1 long look at you and carry on regardless, your hands have never beaten the daylights out of anyone I'd guess (this sounds like a Blackadder sketch)

I once watched a chap stroll up to my car, open the door and drive away. (Keys were in the ignition). There was precisely zero time to react.

The whole scene took place about 20 yards from me.