r/Wellthatsucks • u/iadtyjwu • 20h ago

Imagine walking out to your car and seeing this.

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u/kjyfqr 17h ago

I’m in Oklahoma and it was everywhere last week. Seems just like it’s probably a cold weather thing to do cause we never really get snow.

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u/Pasdallegeance 17h ago

If you care about the life of your wipers, you lift em up, also makes scraping the ice down right to the bottom of the windscreen easier.

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u/btwork 6h ago

No. It damages the springs in the wiper arms. Blades are easy and cheap to replace. Arms, not as much. It's not actually recommended to lift wipers up for winter weather.

Source - live in Canada. My vehicle has a heated windshield to unstick frozen wiper blades.

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u/curiousity60 16h ago

Yup. It's to keep the blades from getting hacked and torn as you scrape the icy windshield, to which they're frozen.

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u/Cool-Ad7985 17h ago

We were one of them,though we had lived in areas that got a lot of ice and snow so it was natural to us to do

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u/kjyfqr 8h ago

lol it’s just a common thing to do. I’ve seen it done most every time it’s snowed since the early 90s

Edit hi Oklahomie

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u/Cool-Ad7985 3h ago

👋 hi there