Ice in my car!?!

[Mark_T]

What you experienced is fairly normal here when the temp drops into the -30's. You go out to your car, unplug the block heater, start it (hopefully), and then you have to scrape all the ice off the outside of the windows while the car is warming up. Then, when you start the defroster, the inside glass ices up and you have to wait until the heater starts blowing warm air to melt it off before you drive away, or you drive away with your scraper in one hand and the wheel in the other, trying to keep a small circle open so you can kinda see where you're going. Back in the 70's when most cars still had pretty crappy heaters we had to apply plastic frost shields to the inside surfaces of the side and back glass otherwise the frost would never clear away. Every fall we'd buy and install frost shields and every spring we'd have to scrape them back off again.

Of course, those of us that have heated garages, interior warmers, or Command Start don't have to deal with this.