As the owner of a windshield replacement store, I can confirm that all of these methods do work
I love how some people are crying about cold engine revving and pouring hot water on cold windshield but no one is saying nothing about windshield flamethrowers lol
Make sure to use tape before you drill when you install the home made flame thrower. You wouldn’t want to damage the paint.
what I appreciate most is the number of times you had to wait for the windshield to frost up like that, that's commitment
Guy in parking lot watching you hook up hoses to the exhaust: "Don't do it man things will get better we can get you some help"
Yes, I've used the boiling water trick, with success. I've also turned on the defroster and cracked the windshield side to side. Also revving your engine against the rev-limiter to save 30 seconds of scraping is likely to cost you like $400 per time. You might get 10 chances at this before your $4000 engine blows up.
Me: “Oh using the exhaust as a defroster, cool idea” CarHax: makes a freezing cold engine slap the Rev limiter
I love how he actually made the flamethrower look good and went through the effort of hiding wires.
This video is kind of fun, but there are only two best ways to unfreeze the windshield : 1. Heated windshield 2. If you don’t have heated windshield, you can use a remote car starter That’s all. That’s simple :)
Hitting revlimiter with ice cold engine is INSANE!!
I use the second method but sometimes it gets cold so I usually route the hose into the cabin once I'm done
The flamethrower had me laughing my ass off😂😂😂😂😂
In the event that anyone is taking this seriously, for the love of god do not pour hot water on a cold windshield. You have a huge chance of cracking it. Love the flamethrower though.
imagine waking up and seeing ur neighbor connect pipes to his exhaust and lead it to the windshield then u go back inside and hear the limiter going “vwaaaaaaWAWAWAWAWAWAWA”🤣🤣
#1 with the plastic bag was actually clever. You can use the hot water for side windows afterwards too. #2 I feel some neighbours might get the wrong idea and try to stop you before you can defrost the windshield 🤣
Imagine going down the highway/street and someone's windshield just burst into flames. They roll down their window and say "it's fine, just trying to defrost my windshield, I'm running late to work. ".
I live in cold Wisconsin and just smashing the glass out with a sledgehammer also clears your view really quick, have done it on a few cars.
2:45 it works best if you put the hose inside with the windows up while you rev the engine so that the hot air inside melts the ice, that way you don’t get cold outside waiting for your windshield to defrost. 5:00 Again it works best from the inside
The ridiculousness of these ideas had me cracking up. Imagine hearing the neighbor redlining in the driveway, looking out to see they are defrosting the windshield. Pure gold
@Carhax