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Saving your wiper blades on frosty mornings
XFullFatTim
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Saving your wiper blades on frosty mornings

To preserve the life of your wiper blades when the temperatures fall below freezing make sure if your car is parked outside, that the night before you switch off the wiper auto-on function. Frost on the sensor at the top of the screen cannot be differentiated from dirt/rain by the sensor so as soon as you press the starter button the wipers try to clear the screen........................... leading to torn blades. It also takes the front screen heater 30secs to clear frosted glass so even if you switch on the screen heater the rubbers will remain frozen onto the screen for that long.
The other option is to move to somewhere warm and sunny............................. where you will never need a heated front screen, but then you usually find there are other weather problems like forest fires and cyclones Rolling Eyes

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29-11-2011 07:21am
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RE: Saving your wiper blades on frosty mornings

Welcome back Tim! The forum has been missing you!

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29-11-2011 07:58am
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RE: Saving your wiper blades on frosty mornings

or alternatively move to Australia..

(cyclone's are up North, we get the fires.. lol) but you will never have frost on your windows Wink
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29-11-2011 08:46am
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RacingSnake
 

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RE: Saving your wiper blades on frosty mornings

And if there is snow, and not frost, you can engage the 'snow park' feature on the wipers too. Smile
29-11-2011 09:38am
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LDT
 

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RE: Saving your wiper blades on frosty mornings

Great tip, thanks! I am impressed that the front screen heater will only take around 30 secs to defrost the glass!

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29-11-2011 10:29am
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XFullFatTim
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RE: Saving your wiper blades on frosty mornings

I cannot wait to see how good this clever PTC heater is on a frosty morning too, as in theory the engine can still be frozen cold but the heater should start giving out hot air immediately you start up as it is a electric ceramic element and not coolant powered or diesel powered one like all the old tech Range Rovers have

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29-11-2011 10:59am
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RE: Saving your wiper blades on frosty mornings

(29-11-2011 10:59am)XFullFatTim Wrote:  I cannot wait to see how good this clever PTC heater is on a frosty morning too, as in theory the engine can still be frozen cold but the heater should start giving out hot air immediately you start up as it is a electric ceramic element and not coolant powered or diesel powered one like all the old tech Range Rovers have

This is really interesting, so let me see, firstly the Evoque has heating element in the windscreen (on certain models), plus it has snow park for the wipers and now I hear it has an independent electric heater for the demist.

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29-11-2011 11:12am
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LDT
 

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RE: Saving your wiper blades on frosty mornings

I have not heard of snow park - I will take a look at the manual to establish if standard on a Prestige.

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it is.
it positions the wipers a couple of inches up from the bottom of the screen.
29-11-2011 12:03pm
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Thanks, that's helpful and good news. No doubt there are many other features/toys I am unaware of which is why this forum is so interesting.

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