Last winter was a nightmare for me. My car windows were constantly frozen. I have some time to prepare before the snow starts falling again, so I’m wondering—how do I unfreeze electric car windows?
fixes is to create a mixture in a spray bottle of rubbing alcohol and room temperature water, though make sure it isn’t too hot. Create a three-fourths alcohol to one-fourth water solution and spray it onto the exterior of your frozen electric car window. Wait a few minutes in order to ensure that the rubbing alcohol solution has reached the bottom of the window pane, and then try to work your electric car window’s buttons.
If it seems as though this isn’t helping to thaw out your frozen window, you can also angle your air vents in the cabin toward the window and let your car idle for a few minutes—but this isn’t the most effective method, and it’s a little hard on the environment.
One of the other helpful methods is to simply open the door with the frozen window and close it forcefully several times to help jar any compacted ice or snow out from the components of the window motor. And if you’re really feeling resourceful, a blow dryer could help warm up the window pane enough to let it thaw out completely.
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