Here is one of the many chunks I've pulled out so far.

"Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo" (thetomselleck) 02/08/2019 at 16:56 • Filed to: Iced taco

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Oh yeah. Anyway, I have all but some risidual bits out, and I have new wiper fluid on hand. Can I just fill this sucker up or must I rid it of all remaining ice?

Nick- Professional Car Destroyer > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo 02/08/2019 at 17:05

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If you pour stuff in at a lower freezing point it MAY take care of the residual because of dilution and stuff.

Don’t worry if you can’t get it all, depending on where you live it’ll be 50 degrees soon, then snap back to -80

Svend > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo 02/08/2019 at 17:05

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If you can, put it in neat and then add a little de-ironised water later. 

CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever > Nick- Professional Car Destroyer 02/08/2019 at 17:05

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Lol, Seattle at -80F.  You'd have a lower death toll if you just nuked them

Nick- Professional Car Destroyer > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 02/08/2019 at 17:07

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Just speaking on where I live right now.

I’m sure the people of Seattle handle the cold just fine lmao

gogmorgo - rowing gears in a Grand Cherokee > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo 02/08/2019 at 17:09

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Just commented on the other post.

Provided there isn’t a huge amount of ice left over, and you add enough washer fluid, it will work its way into the remaining ice and turn it liquid. Unless the temperature drops below the raised washer fluid freeze point after the ice dilution, in which case you’ll end up with a similar problem again. But if the reservoir is basically empty, I don’t see it being a huge deal to fill with antifreeze fluid and then let it sit.

Your jets and lines will probably still be frozen though, and will only thaw by heating or  soaking from the inside with the low-temp washer fluid.

Alfalfa > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo 02/08/2019 at 17:09

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Just put gasoline in next time, it's freezing point is around -60 depending on the mixture.

Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo > gogmorgo - rowing gears in a Grand Cherokee 02/08/2019 at 17:11

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Thank you, read both posts. I called it a day and added enough new fluid (-25C) to drown the ice chunks. If I come back out tomorrow when it’s above freezing and see it’s dissolved, I’ll drain it all and refill it. If not, I’ll wait until I can all of it melted, or wait until it rises above freezing temperatures for a day — which will be a while.

wafflesnfalafel > Nick- Professional Car Destroyer 02/08/2019 at 17:17

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I can decidedly say we don’t... the entire area is gridlocked with the new snow starting even though we had like a week s notice that it was going to happen...

facw > Svend 02/08/2019 at 17:21

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Most good washer fluids here are premix, so adding water will only make things worse. Cheap ones are often still supposed to be diluted though.

gogmorgo - rowing gears in a Grand Cherokee > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo 02/08/2019 at 17:30

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Good stuff, it’ll probably be fine. I was invisioning the only available fluid being -10°C or something only.

The irony of my parents’ situation is that they have only one vehicle, and a heated garage, so in theory this shouldn’t have been an issue. Except they designed their garage to be as small as possible while allowing for their vehicle at the time to fit with six inches leeway all the way around maximum dimensions. Fortunately their vehicle at the time was a minivan, so there’s some space at least, but they eventually replaced it (and the replacement)  with something that’s too tall to go in the door. So they can’t use the heated garage as a garage, and their SUV sits in the driveway.

Svend > facw 02/08/2019 at 17:35

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I always buy OEM for the respective cars, like VW’s own which you dilute for the climate.

facw > Svend 02/08/2019 at 17:40

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I’d imagine very few people do that here in the states. We normally buy the ubiquitous gallon jugs, which may or may not need to be diluted (frankly I’d rather pay a bit more and just have one jug to deal with, so I get premixed stuff, I suspect many that should be diluted actually aren’t because people don’t realize)

smobgirl > gogmorgo - rowing gears in a Grand Cherokee 02/08/2019 at 17:51

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I hate to laugh at your parents in front of you but that’s hilarious.

gettingoldercarguy > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo 02/08/2019 at 17:55

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Buying straight up isopropyl alcohol is the same thing. Make sure you re wax your car/truck when you can add this also makes a lovely stripper of protective coatings.

Side note, we’re getting positively dumped on here. Are you?

BrianGriffin thinks “reliable” is just a state of mind > gogmorgo - rowing gears in a Grand Cherokee 02/08/2019 at 17:57

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I’d be airing down those tires if it was this cold. 

Svend > facw 02/08/2019 at 17:59

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To be honest most people here buy the cheap gallon (UK gallon, lol) stuff.

I always prefer to go the manufac turer recommended route, then dilute down with de-ironised water depending on the climate. 

Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo > gettingoldercarguy 02/08/2019 at 18:02

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My once beautiful cleared sidewalks are falling prey to the new flakes

gogmorgo - rowing gears in a Grand Cherokee > smobgirl 02/08/2019 at 18:11

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No it is hilarious. The problem lies in the fact that the driveway slopes steeply upwards away from the garage, so while on paper the Envoy XL fits under the door, the bottom of the door still bears scars from the impact with the Envoy’s roof rack.

The moral of the story is mostly not to put the garage at basement level. The other problem they have with it is a little less funny. T here’s a ditch running along their road, with a culvert under the driveway. If the culvert backs up, then the water leaves the ditch and flows straight down the driveway, under the garage door, and then starts filling the basement. After the second time that happened they built up stands to store stuff on so everything is about a foot off the ground now, and they punched a hole through the wall of an old rainwater cistern that goes about three feet deeper than the basement floor to act as a massive sump to collect most of the flood water, with a big sump pump that spits the run off down the sewer about as fast as the sewer line will take it, which minimizes flooding to some degree, but it’s still not ideal, and it still leaves a huge muddy mess to clean up . So yeah, basement level garage when the basement is below ground and street level, not such a great idea.

Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo > Alfalfa 02/08/2019 at 18:20

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It'll like have two extra fuel injectors

gogmorgo - rowing gears in a Grand Cherokee > BrianGriffin thinks “reliable” is just a state of mind 02/08/2019 at 18:45

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“If it was this cold” would also mean you would have to reinflate them in said cold, which for my dad would mean kneeling on the cold ground/snow at almost 70 years old. Also shortly after they discovered it didn’t fit, it became storage space. So now it would be a ton more work that just deflating tires to get anything in there. I’m also not convinced that the five inches or so they’d gain from airing down would be quite enough, even sitting on the sidewalls . The issue isn’t so much the height of the door as it is the fact the driveway slopes upwards pretty steeply immediately after exiting the garage. 

Spamfeller Loves Nazi Clicks > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo 02/08/2019 at 20:13

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You can mix in some propylene glycol or ethylene glycol along with some de-icing agent. Do NOT use straight fluids of any of these and do NOT use straight isopropyl alcohol or denatured alcohol (which will damage the acrylic plastics in the pump or nozzles.)

In the future, just leave enough space at the top so that ice expansion doesn’t crack the tank and use -25F rated windshield washer fluid.

shop-teacher > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo 02/08/2019 at 21:09

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Fill it up. It'll be good.

functionoverfashion > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo 02/09/2019 at 13:03

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This happened to me on a road trip once. I stopped at a diner and asked for some hot water . It was warm enough outside that the lines weren’t totally iced, so the hot water melted the slush in the reservoir, then I just ran the sprayers until there was nothing left, and refilled with proper washer fluid (of course also running some of that through the sprayers).