This thread is too funny.

May I suggest using a pair of lace satin panties...if you are this freaked out by brusing a bit of snow off the paint you are bound to have a drawer full of them!

Its a freeking CAR for heavens sake. Take the snowbrush out of the trunk and swipe the stuff off and go flog the car in the snow before it melts.

I live in New England I've already accepted that Swirls will forever be on my car. :(

You keep saying this, but I don't think my sand or salt falls from the sky.

Yes it does for several reasons. One hot water has a lower surface tent ion than cold therefore spreads thinner allowing for quicker cooling and freezing. Also it has less air in it again allowing for quicker freezing. This is a simple and basic science taught to every 5th grader (in Canada). And if you still don't believe me go to your local rink and ask the guy driving the Zamboni.


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I know a lot of peoe up here just use their leaf blower. Actually leaf blowers get more use on snow than on leaves up here. Best way to get the clearest sidewalks and such to make sure there's nothing left to form ice


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Warm water can freeze quicker than cold water under the right
onditions. Not always though. And the hot water in a zamboni also serves to melt chips and bumps before it refreezes flat. If a zamboni spread water that was 0.01° C, it would freeze before warm water but still leave the imperfections. Anyways back to using it to clear ur car, steaming hot
ater can also strip caranuba wax easily.

http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physic...hot_water.html. please tell me again how hot water will always freeze faster than cold. U obviously don't talk to people with bachelors degrees iin science fields. I have never driven a zamnboni ( although it looks like fun) buti have made backyard ice rinks. http://entertainment.howstuffworks.com/ice-rink6.htm

Interesting topic. Contains a good combination of folklore and sciense.

Mpemba

As a scientist, I will assume you are familiar with the concept.

The way i did it was doing a 360 in the parking lot and all the snow was gone lol

What is so hard to understand? Mike, with your logic it makes no sense that my car is dirty after driving in rain - since dirt doesn't fall from the sky.

Wiping snow off down to the paint is like using sand paper to wash your car, period.

Rusty garden rake...

I use my snow shovel, what's the big deal, we had 35 inch of snow, n I dont think long island had 30

I totally missed this thread earlier. way overdue now obviously but I'll post this for future reference


old blog post of mine going over snow removal

http://mrsparkledetailing.com/tips-o...tch-your-paint

While we're ressurecting this thread--

Only the hood is Aluminum. The rest is plastic or steel.

I just use my hand with few layers of soft gloves, or 1 thick glove and soft glove on top.
If you start pushing the show, they'll clump together and will slide off of the car.

Story gets different with 30+ inches of snow... then carefully use shovel until the car's level.

Few inches of snow we got in this past March... my dad used a broom on my car and he left a 2ft long scratch... faaaaaaaak

Too late now I guess

yup. i ordered one from amazon after @Deslock's recommendation earlier in this thread. incredible product. gonna be ordering a few more for friends and family come next season.

yeah ive seen dealers do this to avoid scratching the cars.

Removing show?? That's for losers!! :party0030:

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That depends on what kind of snow it is. If its wt snow yeah it'll clump but dry snow will be like powder. It's like trying to clean up all the coke as the cops walk in the front door. You'll never get it all there will still be a bit if powder floating around.


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NEVER use a shovel

resist the urge. you'll be sorry....

Sorry to dig up but... Can anyone comment on the difference between using a squeegee (some brushes have this on the reverse side) vs the snobrum? Is it that much more dangerous to use a regular snow squeegee on paint?

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Be careful with the warm water and cold windshields. Thermal shock isn't fun!

Leaf blower

I liked using the squeegee on the reverse side of my brush, and I never noticed any scratches from using it.

i shovel snow off my car...

Never even heard of that! Wouldn't be surprised if they adopted that on the LIE as a means to find another reason to pull you over ( in an effort to help out the ticket revenue stream).

It's usually not a problem if there's only light snow or if the snow stays on your car. It's only a problem if there's a s**t load of snow flying off the roof of your car blinding everyone else driving behind you. Then it becomes a matter of safety; not revenue. In NYC, people don't usually drive fast enough for the snow to be flying off. But I see that a lot whenever I'm back upstate.

Even when you use a plastic ice scraper you have to be careful, I was scraping ice off my Si's rear side window and made a scratch because I misjudged where the window stopped and the pillar began due to the crap load of snow.

If the car is not a DD and you anticipate snow use a car cover. Wipe off the snow with your glove (can't scratch the cover but don't snag or tear it either). Take the cover off and leave it somewhere the melting ice won't harm anything. You'll have the cleanest car on the road. Too Bad you won't be able to put the cover back on until you wash off the salt.

Noticed something interesting - I found condensation inside my trunk lid (pretty weird) figured out the cause: the car care products in my trunk froze solid and when ithe weather warmed they (along) with the trunk lid were covered in condensation. Lesson learned: leave any fluids that can freeze out of your trunk unless you really need them and freezing wax/detailer/etc probably isn't good for them either.

Illegal to leave snow on your car in Connecticut also. As of January 1st, all trucks must remove all snow and ice from their roofs also -$1200 fine for first offense. Several people have been killed / injured by flying ice sliding off truck's roofs and hitting the car(s) behind them. Some trucking companies now have a machine that scrapes the roofs before the trucks head out on the roads.


For my cars I use a boar's hair brush on a long pole for heavy wet snow and a leaf blower for light powdery stuff. I only try to get the worst of it and let the sun and sublimation take care of the rest. So far never got any scratches or swirls that I can't polish out in the spring.


The snow rake Mr. Sparkle showed is probably the best tool out there and inexpensive as well. I'll get one myself when my brush finally wears out.

I've had a bumper destroyed because of snow/ice flying off of the car in front of me. Someone I used to work with had a family member who had it came through the windshield.

Clean off your cars.

Having lived in Alaska for the better part of 20 years ... I find this whole thread really humerous. Driving a car in the winter with salt and sand on the road. Trucks without mudflaps spraying tons of road debris on the car. At a stoplight .... watching a driver in your rearview mirror trying to stop before hitting your rear bumper. Cars sliding everywhere. Losing control on black ice and ending up in a ditch. I guess the last thing on my mind was if I was going to put a small scratch on my car using a snow brush.

^ lol. Usually the snow ends up sticking to my brush and I'm pushing the snow off with a layer of snow on the brush which probably helps reduce swirls.

I fill up my hand wash buckets with arm water and remove it that way . Works all the time just a pain cuz i live in a appt complex

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Get a snow joe. I have one and its awesome. The block of foam doesn't scratch/swirl your car unless your car is dirty and you drag the salt and debris off the cars surface.

Let us know when your windows explode so that you'll learn about thermal expansion...or you could read this thread and figure that what you're doing is a horrible idea.

Purchased this as soon as I saw this post haha!

It works great and so much easier than brushes, especially on the roof. It's also known as the Snow Brum.

Here's the autogeek thread:
http://www.autogeekonline.net/forum/...ce-master.html

I wouldn't recommend the Ice Master though. I've tried it on multiple cars and it Does scratch glass. Scratched my windshield right at eye-level.

Yup, got one of those too. Clears it off a lot more quickly, too.

Not entirely true when it comes to the tempered glass that the side and back windows are made out of (already thermally shocked), though I would be careful with the windshield.