According to Motor Biscuit, the lines you see on a vehicle’s rear windshield are actually called secondary defrosters. The metal and resin wires placed on the glass carry a current and emit heat when ...

For most drivers, the rear defroster button is an afterthought. You jab it on cold mornings, watch the frost melt into streaky rivulets, and then forget about it until the next weather event.

Dear Tom and Ray: I have a great, wonderful, sweet co-worker who might be as wacky as a loon. It was zero degrees Fahrenheit last week, and she refused to use her rear defroster, claiming it would ...

Tiny electric heating elements bring immediate heat to frozen windshields without waiting for the engine to get warm.

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