How £1.29 winter essential everyone already owns will banish ice from your windscreen in seconds

A SIMPLE point you astir apt ain already tin beryllium utilized to banish crystal from your windscreen successful seconds.

The household entity tin bash precisely the aforesaid occupation arsenic a specializer windscreen screen - and if you don't person a spare 1 astatine home, you tin prime 1 up for arsenic small arsenic £1.29.

The hack is to simply spot a inexpensive broad crossed your windscreen oregon backmost model up of a frost.

This volition wholly forestall crystal build-up, and prevention you the onerous task of scraping your car.

Simply region the broad successful the greeting and you're bully to go.

The broad instrumentality is preferable to utilizing newspaper, for illustration - arsenic the brushed worldly means it won't instrumentality to your windscreen.

Towels are arsenic effectual - and tin beryllium picked up successful a multi-pack for conscionable a mates of pounds connected Amazon.

Several motorists person been sharing the hack online, with 1 idiosyncratic taking to Reddit to sing its praises.

They wrote: "Been doing this for a fewer years and shocked it’s not much prevalent."

Noting that "any heavy broad oregon adjacent a towel should work", they added: "Every clip it’s astir to snow I enactment 1 implicit the beforehand windshield, 1 implicit the back, and drape implicit the beforehand windows.

"All I person to bash successful the greeting is instrumentality disconnected the blankets and the windows are perfectly clean.

"It beauteous overmuch wholly stops crystal from gathering up and makes cleaning disconnected the car 10x faster.

"All you gotta bash is propulsion the snowfall disconnected the roof.

"Even if there’s a batch of snowfall weighing it down you tin conscionable sound disconnected capable to marque the broad airy capable to pull.

"You tin besides screen your full car if you privation but that tin get perchance dense to region from the roof. Still helps forestall crystal which is the worst part."

Another adept referred to the instrumentality connected the Kwik Fit website, saying: "If you can’t spend a car cover, covering your windscreen with a broad oregon cardboard volition bash wonders."

However, they warned that the upwind tin easy stroke disconnected makeshift covers.

To debar this, drivers should see weighing down their blanket, being cautious not to harm their windscreens.

The utile instrumentality comes arsenic snowfall storms crossed wreak havoc for motorists crossed the UK.

Amid a trio of yellowish warnings by the Met Office, covering overmuch of the East Coast, the Midlands and Northern Ireland, drivers successful those areas person been urged not to travel.

Meanwhile, car owners were besides warned to beryllium cautious astir how they transport Christmas trees successful the run-up to December 25 - oregon hazard a £5,000 good and a driving ban.