[Closed] drivers not clearing their windscreens

Mind you, just how many people are actually taught and learn to drive in the winter.

i passed on january the 5th, after driving my mum to my nans to prove i was safe i proceded to go out to the hills, slide about in the snow and park the car in a hedge. 😳

Nah, leave the roof. Always like to see cars with snowhicans. It's like a faster version of Buckaroo, waiting to see at which point it all goes flying off.

So what happens when you brake and a large slab of melting snow totally obscures your windscreen?

Mind you, just how many people are actually taught and learn to drive in the winter.

I was taught to drive in the winter. I'm fairly sure it's given me a bit more confidence how to drive in the ice and snow. I'm not 'awesome' by any stretch but have a healthy appreciation/respect for the weather. Didn't get too many bad habits too early in my driving career.

[i]So what happens when you brake and a large slab of melting snow totally obscures your windscreen?[/i]

See [url= http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/forum-etiquette-people-who-obviously-havent-read-the-question ]here[/url]

I was pulling out to overtake an ar[b]c[/b]tic

Did it have continental tyres?

Did it have continental tyres?

I think it is safer... now at least you know they are driving round with no idea what is around them. Normally its pot luck...

As if I would put my car in a garage, that's where the bikes live!

grum - Member
Yet another 'why isn't everyone else as great as me' thread. Classic

WTF goes through a someones mind that says it'll be fine to drive around having scrapped a bit of snow the size of a letter box from the front windscreen!!!!!

Progress- my car has a heated windscreen
Antiprogress- it has rain sensing wipers which turn on as soon as I hit the ignition, when the windscreen's still covered in ice

The blue oval giveth, and it taketh away.

Northwind - Member
Progress- my car has a heated windscreen

I have a car with a heated windscreen, well I say heated. It's got a blower inside the car for it. 😉

I have a car with a heated windscreen, well I say heated. It's got a blower inside the car for it. 😉

I have a car with a heated windscreen, well I say heated, I live in Australia

Leaving snow on your car is classed as a unsecured load, few round here were pulled by the fuzz in previous winters.

[i] I was pulling out to overtake an arctic

Did it have continental tyres? [/i]

Well done! 😉

watched woman in alfa mito this morning come into the carpark at work

pull up , get out

start clearing the 2 inch of frozen powder snow off her roof , bonnet and lights .....

her husband will love her for the mess she will have made scraping the bonnet with the windscreen scraper like it was a window !

Progress- my car has a heated windscreen
Antiprogress- it has rain sensing wipers which turn on as soon as I hit the ignition, when the windscreen's still covered in ice

The blue oval giveth, and it taketh away.

After being attacked by my automatic wipers while scraping the windscreen I now turn them off before turning the ignition on.

Hold up, highway code enforcement snipers? Where can i apply for this job?

[quote=Northwind said]Progress- my car has a heated windscreen
Antiprogress- it has rain sensing wipers which turn on as soon as I hit the ignition, when the windscreen's still covered in ice
The blue oval giveth, and it taketh away.

Bad design 🙂 My rain sensor wipers disable themselves after the ignition is turned off such that when you fire the car up again they won't start flapping away. You need to reactivate them using the control stalk.