dustindu4

I took my routine trip to the car wash just now. I use the manual hand wash thing to just spray the road yuckies off. I start spraying the car with the water, I get all the way around the car and noticed none of the water is dripping off. I keep spraying water on and notice the water is freezing and keeps building up. My car was literally encased in ice.

Not real bright spraying water on your car when it's 2 degrees F outside with no windchill. My car looks so stupid now. I had to scrape all my windows before I could drive off with it. It looks like a frozen pipe burst in my garage over my car. It's going to be below freezing for the rest of the week. I have no idea when this stuff will come off.

real dumb

Mach 1 Fireman

I hope that's not the smartest thing you've ever done.....

Louie

2Slack

Galaxie

hmm...

try and park it in an underground garage.. there should be enough heat to melt all the ice off...

just be happy you didn't freeze up all the locks

Pitch Black

Sorry but thats just like someone parking in a mud puddle and it suppose to be 17 and expect to pull out.. lol

slammer223

I tried that once too, thinking the hot water would stay above freezing long enough......DOH!

azoufan

I REALLY want to see a picture of this. I promise I'll use it as my desktop background.

Sean

Lalo

Pics! Pics! Pics! Pics!

:P

bryman

Extension cord and a hairdryer on hot might do the trick. Better yet, a heat gun.

WERKED 66

hot water frezzes before cold water..........

mr-mstng

Hair dryer won't do much, heat gun will be overkill, and may damage the paint if used too close.

RFX_Bass

put it out here in the tropical sun for a while, right now is at 85 F

mr-mstng

I've got 6° on mine.

RFX_Bass

:dance:


:flame2: <- that seems apropiated for this situation!

MusicMan66

Umm, no it doesn't. From Scientific American via the Straight Dope:

"Jearl (Walker) suggested that the most likely explanation for this was evaporation: when water cools down from near boiling to the freezing point, as much as 16 percent evaporates away, compared to 7 percent for water at 160 degrees. The smaller the amount of water, of course, the faster it freezes.

In addition, the water vapor carries away a certain amount of heat. To test this theory, Jearl covered his lab beaker with Saran Wrap to prevent water vapor from escaping. The freezing rate difference was greatly diminished. Conceivably convection (motion within the water) also plays a role.

Fascinating as all this no doubt is, all it basically proves is that very hot water freezes more slowly than very VERY hot water. The ordinary fumbler in the fridge, on the other hand, is dealing with temps more like the ones I was measuring, in which case cold freezes faster than hot. I rest my case."

More than you wanted to know, I'm sure. But there it is.

ponyboy66

That sucks Dustin. I hate when mother nature gets in the way of a good thing.

burningman

look at it this way..at least your car is clean under the ice. it's like driving around with a clear car cover on all the time

Boltzman

when does it get" Comfortable" in NH??(60's)

Autotooner

Lol... Good one Doug!