Published on: 10/12/2024 Updated on: 20/02/2025
How to de-ice windows in winter? Get ready to tackle ice with Mafra products, windshield wiper fluids and de-icer sprays ideal for removing it quickly and safely from windows and windshields.
With the arrival of winter and low nighttime temperatures, the risk of windshields, rear windows, and windows becoming covered with ice is common. Even in large cities, leaving your car parked outside at night, it is easy to find it in the morning with the windows covered with a layer of ice that prevents immediate use of the car.
Of course, it is enough to turn on the cabin heater to clear the glass surfaces of ice, but it takes a long time for the air conditioning circuit fluid, which absorbs heat from the engine, to reach an adequate temperature.
Even the heated rear window, which works with an electric heating element, takes time before it can act effectively. But in the morning, you know, we are all in a hurry....
The solution, however, is simple. Just use Mafra's de-icer sprays and wiper fluids to quickly solve the problem and always have clean windows, when starting and while driving.
Here's how to choose the right Mafra products to face even the coldest winter days without any problems and always drive with perfect visibility in completely safe conditions.
How to shia glass and crystals in an instant
De-icer sprays are the most practical and fastest tool for cleaning car windows.
Mafra, with the concentrated formula of Not Ice Spray, offers the fastest solution for removing ice.
Not Ice Spray is the Mafra spray that de-ices windows and locks, while also protecting rubber parts and door seals. In addition, Not Ice Spray slows the formation of ice on windows and locks, making de-icing easier.
Not Ice Power is, on the other hand, Mafra's liquid windshield de-icer. Equally practical as Not Ice Spray, it is to be sprayed on the windows, from which it immediately removes ice thanks to its concentrated IceBreaker formula.
In cold nighttime temperatures, windshield wipers often get stuck. Not Ice Power allows them to be freed without risking damage, plus it leaves behind, like all other Mafra de-icer, a fragrant scent.
Not Ice Power is available in a convenient 500-milliliter pack, ideal for always finding a place inside the car and being on hand when in use.
Degrading sprays of crystals Mafra allow you to face winter safely and without wasting time.
How to protect the windshield wiper fluid
Even the liquid to be used to clean the windshield can freeze in cold winter temperatures. The risk is then that nothing comes out of the nozzles at the base of the glass when needed.
Mafra has a wide range of antifreeze washer fluids for use in windshield wiper trays to ensure perfect visibility at all times, free of halos and streaks. Here is an overview of Mafra's antifreeze products, designed to meet different needs.
Cristalbel is Mafra 's range of concentrated antifreeze cleaners for windshields and rear windows, for use in windshield wiper trays. With their anti-scale action, they keep the nozzles and the dispensing circuit clean, eliminating any type of encrustation.
Cristalbel -20°, used pure without adding water, is the windshield wiper fluid with a freezing point of -20°C, which does not freeze at low temperatures and leaves no residue in the circuits.
Cristalbel Artic -70° is the liquid wiper antifreeze designed instead for the most extreme conditions: used pure, it has a freezing point at -70°C.
Cristalbel Artic -70° concentrated windshield wiper fluid is available in a one-liter package; even mixed with a portion of water, it still retains a very low freezing point of -35 °C.
If you don't think you need that much protection, you can choose Tergy4, Mafra, a multi-seasonal washer fluid to put in the trays, which provides deep cleaning and maximum brush smoothness by resisting up to -5 °C.
The windshield wiper fluid TergyWinter -10°, on the other hand, thanks to its unique blend of fine alcohols, lowers the freezing point in the liquid in the pan to -10°C.
Tergy Artic -25°, antifreeze liquid for windshield wipers, is finally perfect for the most demanding situations. In fact, it allows for easy windshield de-icing; used pure in the pan, it lowers the freezing point to -25°C.
Everything to avoid in winter
How often do you see motorists using scrapers or makeshift objects to clean their icy windshields? These are operations that, instead, should be avoided.
Scrapers are inconvenient and, more importantly, can scratch the surface of crystals. Although the scraper has a rubber end, its use is inadvisable. In fact, the rubberized profile can pick up grains of dirt and dust and drag them along with it, damaging the glass surface.
The risk of ruining windshields, rear windows, and side windows is even higher if you use makeshift means, such as cards, cards, pieces of plastic.
A jet of hot water on glass is also to be absolutely avoided. One can, in fact, create a thermal shock to the glass surfaces, damaging them. The same can be said for the use of salt, which, penetrating into small cracks or chips, then becomes impossible to remove.
Not taking such risks, however, is easy: just use the products that Mafra makes available to motorists. Mafra 's wide range of de-icer sprays and windshield wiper fluids makes it possible to resolve the situation quickly and without inconvenience, restoring perfect transparency to the glass surfaces of our cars.
