Fry Pans Can Get It, Why Not My Car

The virtues of the Teflon fry pan are many, but non-stick seems to be the biggest benefit. Imagine the time that we could all save if none of the ice would stick. It took us about two hours per car that were left outside during the heavy snowfall with hours and hours of freezing rain and more snowfall. We might have to make do with brown and silver colors at first, but surely, colors we like could be made available.

I had thought of spraying my car with Pam before this last heavy snowfall and freezing rain hit us, but wasn’t certain if it might just grease up the windows and make a tough situation even worse. The storm hit with full force where we are (on top of a big hill), and one of the cars had a broken windshield from the sheer weight of the ice. The ice covering was a good 1/3 to 1/2 inch and in some places an inch thick. The severe cold made it almost impossible to work outside for so long and remove the ice.

Fortunately, we had a big collection of ice scrapers that weren’t left inside the cars to use to remove the ice. It was a lot of work. Years ago my car was parked in an outdoor lot in town. An ice and snowstorm had turned the lot and all the cars into quite a mess. It was getting late and there was one other woman who couldn’t get into her car because her locks were frozen. I had my lock de-icer handy and we both were able to open the door locks but the doors wouldn’t budge. Pulling on the handles any harder would have ripped them off. Somebody should have had a camera to take movies of us getting our cars open – In total frustration, I finally decided to body slam the door. When I got my door open, the other woman decided to give that a try that as well. We were both successful.

Keep a little can of lock de-icer with you instead of in the car and if you carry a tote bag, a bigger spray bottle of de-icer is helpful as well as a short heavy scraper when you are out and the weather threatens your ability to get into your car. It’s best to get a better scraper so it doesn’t break easily from heavy use.

There has to be an easier way instead of using a garage that goes down a slope and into the back yard that would have required a tremendous amount of shoveling to get the car out and up the driveway. That would have been just as big an ordeal.

Besides the slick teflon-like coating on the cars, I would like to suggest to the manufacturers that every four-door vehicle have locks on each door. It would provide us a much better chance of one of them opening.

Any ideas?