Car expert's £2 trick to stop your windscreen from getting frosty this winter
You can stop your car windscreen from getting frosty this winter with one £2 item, according to experts.
If you're due to be driving around to visit family this Christmas, the last thing you want to be doing is standing out in the cold with an ice scraper trying to defrost your car so that you can drive safely. While many parts of the UK are facing an "unseasonably mild" Christmas Day today, snow is still forecast across parts of Scotland, and some of us will still be facing frosty mornings over the coming days. Thankfully though, there's something you can do to prevent your car windscreen from getting frosty - and all you need is one £2 item.
Rubbing alcohol can stop ice forming in the first place (stock photo) (Getty Images)According to experts and car enthusiasts, all you need is some rubbing alcohol, which you can use to wash your windscreen in the evening to stop it from freezing when temperatures drop overnight.
The hack first emerged in the comments section of a YouTube clip posted by Smart Fox last year, in which he shared what would happen if you rubbed a potato over your windscreen. One person in the comments offered an alternative solution, as they wrote: "I wash my windshield in the evening with a paper towel and pharmaceutical spirit. In the morning, at -10C, the windshield is cleaned and has no ice on it."
Rubbing alcohol and pharmaceutical spirits have become widely recognised solutions for tackling ice and frost on cars, and they work because alcohol has a low freezing point, meaning frost is less likely to form when there are traces of alcohol on the surface of your car's windscreen.
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Even the experts at WD-40 recommend using rubbing alcohol as a safer alternative to a saltwater solution, as it won't damage your car and will still prevent frost from forming. The experts told The Sun: "Saltwater can prevent the ice from re-freezing whilst you are out and about. However, the saltwater can damage your car whereas a 2:1 rubbing alcohol solution will not damage the car and it has the same effect on it."
Rubbing alcohol can be purchased from Amazon for around £3.50 a bottle, but Medical World also sells a bottle of surgical spirit for just £2.11 - making it a relatively cheap option for cleaning your car windscreen.
Meanwhile, if you do find your windscreen frosty this Christmas, experts at LeaseCar recently suggested that using coffee powder could help melt the ice in no time. The expert suggests that the properties of coffee are similar to salt making it a fairly unknown de-icing option.
Tim Alcock, spokesperson for LeaseCar said: "Coffee can double up as a de-icer. The dark colour of coffee grains can absorb sunlight and naturally helps to melt the ice."
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