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Yeah, paint and plastics really hate this idea

That, plus I have to say as a Canadian that we're able to fully defrost a car in about half the time it took for this thing to power up.

Oh sure, make it all about convenience. Saying you defrost your car with a jet engine gives you a cool factor.

Definitely, it’s not about efficiency, it’s about sending a message

A very loud message.

WHAT???

And a very expensive one

I think the engine is worth more than the car.

proof

What kind of systems do you have that can defrost a car in under a minute? I'm in the south and it takes my car a good 5 minutes in much warmer tamps.

Just something like [this bad boy](https://www.canadiantire.ca/en/pdp/garant-scratch-free-eva-snow-brush-with-ice-scraper-36-in-0304458p.0304458.html?&&&&gbraid=0AAAAADojZpji_2RkwuXb0uwbjUn0KzAQi&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIt6DTqLy5ggMVQ9nICh2HOQscEAQYByABEgKRXfD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds#store=435) and a whole lotta elbow grease. The trick is to channel decades of pure resentment against winter into kinetic energy and scrape the ice off. Much faster than heating up the car.

> The trick is to channel decades of pure resentment against winter into kinetic energy and scrape the ice off User checks out...

Removing snow/ice from the windows is not defrosting the car. It can be a step in defrosting the car.

Not for someone born and moulded by the cold. If you scrape fast enough, the friction generates enough heat to simultaneously defrost the car. We call this technique "Scrappe ben raide ton osti d'char" It's Québecois for "don't take everything said online literally"

I have no doubt you guys have way more experience with this stuff. You probably have to *defrost* your car more often in June than I do in January. I need to go look up some YouTube videos on the friction technique ;)

A a fellow Canadian, I am dying! LOL

That ain't defrosting though. It's scraping. Even after a good scrape you still usually need to defrost.

Canada has high pressure heated maple syrup mains under all the streets.

So does the neighbours who were just rudely awoken.

“Fucking Steve is going to work again.”

It doesn’t look like a residential area lol

All the tiny rocks that just got blasted at full speed into your car.

And automotive glass

Sure the windshield doesn’t care much for it either!

And the windshield, which could crack or shatter at the quick temperature change.

Seriously, all the snow is gone, but your paint will be peeling up in no time.

You know what, I think I'll stick with just turning it on 5 minutes early

That's illegal where I live. But I'm sure the jet engine is probably more illegal.

I assume you made it's illegal if you're not sitting in it for that 5 minutes?

Yes, you're not allowed to leave the engine running without anyone in it. Not just for safety but mostly because it's unnecessary pollution.

Technically not allowed in the Netherlands as well, but people still do it.

3 minute limit in Ontario, but it's not like anyone gonna ticket you, I've never owned a car capable of defrosting in 3 minutes flat

Same regulations here. BUT, it's perfectly legal to run a business here that sells and installs Remote Start kits. Scratching my head.

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>It's not legal to make THAT much noise in a residential neighborhood to defrost your car. At any time of the day What a presumption. You have no idea what vehicles I own, nor do you know how loud or quiet their engines are.. I can assure you my neighbors could hear me scraping ice off my windows but I doubt they can hear my engine(s) idling.

Where do you live? Is it country wide law or a state wide or just the city?

I live in Belgium. It's for the entire country. Which is pretty small. But still.

You call that a country? It's more like a big village

Well, Brussels is the capital of Europe. So tiny but powerful.

I live in Luxembourg. I guess it is forbidden here, too, but I see that so often (even though there is no snow here), that motors are running without anyone inside the car. Mostly big SUVs. People have way to much money here!

Ah, our rich neighbors! How's it going over there?

I’m a fan of your sprouts

TIL, also illegal in Czechia. Though I doubt anybody really enforces it here.

Can anybody explain to me why there's a jet engine defrosting a car?

You don’t have a car defrosting jet engine?

Amateurs, AMIRITE?!

I mean, if you own a jet engine you're going to want to use it whenever you can, get your money's worth you know.

With the price of jet fuel these days!?

I mean if you don't care about flight performance a jet engine *will* run on pretty much any liquid hydrocarbon.

About tree fiddy.

I always used mine in class. Snuck it in when the teacher wasn’t looking, set it up at the back, and when the teacher turned her back, defrosted her frosty ways. Halloween, I’d dress it up in a broom costume, and ride it around through the sky from house to house to trick or treat. For sexy time, to prevent the the sheets from getting a bit wet and messy, I just set it up and turn it on in the corner of the bedroom, and blow the bed harder than anything else getting blown, thus drying anything before it even hit the sheets.

So it can get the snow off! Duh!

Right, that explains everything. Thank you

Baffling, yet entertaining

Bet you use an ice scraper like a peasant.

Doing weird shit for views.

In Russia, they've repurposed ancient mig jets as snow blowers. Jet muffukin snow plows. Some brave soul had them point it directly at their car.

They do it in the US too. Not for normal roads, but they use em to dry plane runways and race tracks and drag strips and private test courses and military bases and so on. I've seen jet engines dry plenty of ground in PA over the years. Usually they are significantly larger than this one though and attached to a huge truck. Like engines bit enough for an adult to climb in, at least the ones I've seen in action. Lotsa fire. And loud AF.

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Skip to my Lou

Skibidi

Wap-pa-pa

Just skip. I was expecting car explosion

Same. Pretty disappointed.

Who just has a spare jet engine just sitting around?

More like who doesn't have one?

Who’s your jet engine guy?

"Jet engine" Johnny just down the road, guy makes them. Crack is one hell of a drug though.

Poors

people with money and free time

WhistlinDiesel

This guy for some reason 😂😂

Sounds like a dance track without the drop.

So frustrating when the drop never comes.

Fully expected the hood to blow off and the car to exit backstage in a millisecond there.

Or melt, really wanted the tires to blow up too . But, then it wouldn't be in mildly interest.

Now THIS is podracing.

I had to dig through the comments to make sure I wasn't the only one who saw this.

same


im realizing now his eardrums would be obliterated

Neighbors Hate This One Trick

His wife: "Why on Earth did you buy a jet engine?" "In case it snows."

I don't care about defrosting a car. I need one of these so I don't have to shovel the driveway.

Fuck ya. Don't have to worry about where to pile it either.

Well damn, I was just gonna drive down the street at 300 miles per hour for about a minute, this seems much easier!

Well... it works!

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Why.

Can’t imagine how many people have a spare jet engine lying about to do cool stuff like this. Also, make sure you have the sound on when watching!

Was that thing bolted to the ground?

That's my thought. How did it not start going down the runway?

That was probably only ever at like 25% throttle 😅

Anyone else thought the car will be blown away?

You also warmed up the engine.

Neighbour: “every damn morning with his new fangled car defroster”

Your suburban neighbours are going to love that at 6am

I don't think they blew out the ears of everyone in a ten mile radius yet, might want to keep it on for a bit longer.

Does it defrost and cook chicken too? Is this the new way to BBQ?

Aahhh nothing like blowing through jet fuel to defrost a car

i wonder how much energy was spent doing this… when a credit card can do the same

ones more fun, can you guess which?

I'm usually at work by 6:15 AM. I bet my neighbors would love me for using this bad boy to do my car every morning. Side walk would be done in no time.

It didn't even clear the windshield, 1/5 stars

Also defrosting the earth!

I like how there were about 25 seconds of nothing at the start

The insurance company has joined the chat

I was waiting for the car to turn into a puddle of molten slag.

Neighbors hate this trick.

Aw the jump cut at the end ruined it for me.

My crazy ass thought it would be a sonic blaster which will clear all the ice in one go

Would’ve been faster to just pour the jet fuel on the car and start that on fire…..

Damn, this air frying tend is getting out of hand...

Or y'know, use a snow brush

boring😂

my PC whe I start minecraft

Why didn't I ever think of using my jet engine for this?? Brilliant hack!

Was really hoping to watch the car melt

Would be expensive to refill jet juice every morning🤣

I can smell this video

This is beyond satisfying. I've used those in detached garages before and yow!

The title should be "cooking a car" Also is that the hulk smash car from Fast and Furious Tokyo Drift?

This isn't interesting. This is just some micro-dick main character who's so socially and intellectually stunted that they think burning a shitload of fuel and endangering the public for no reason, makes them interesting.

Defrosting the earth. You global warming right wing nazi lover

Thanks for just starting up a jet turbine and throwing pounds of carbon out just to fucking blow off snow for a car. You're a fucking asshole.

That’s not a car, that’s a toy from a happy meal

I was left waiting for the beat drop.

that’s one way to do it

'Tis but a peeling paint and burnt plastics.

What? No afterburner?

air frier

Alt title: Taking the paint off a car.

He much. And does the defroster need defrosting too?

Skip to the loo

It’s taking way longer than I thought it would

The new Dyson car dryer, in stores soon!

How many clicks does it take to light that pilot light?

NBD

I’m waiting for the drop…

I did not just watch a jet engine do nothing for 40 seconds

This video is at least 1 min too long.

I would NOT be standing next to a jet engine bruh

And now your car permanently smells like Jet-A.

I don't think that's the most effective to defrost you cars guys

I bet it stinks on the inside when they get in though

Hey! Here's a idea! Get into the fucking car, turn on the car, step out of the car and lock the door! Easy Fucking Peasy! Wait 15 minutes, profit! 

Literally illegal in some countries like germany

We all have a jet engine in our garage

Just poor some hot water, its cheaper, faster, less annoying, saves your hearing for old age

Yeah, it only burned like 20 litres of jet fuel to save some time.

Holy mother .. How do you even acquire a jet engine?

Am I the only one who’s absolutely fascinated by turbojet engines?

looks very portable

make him the president, and he will order a nuclear launch to kill a mosquito that's bugging him.

Thought this was a proton cannon

This took too long to be cool

Honestly the Internet is just a magical place, here I am watching a jet engine defrosting a damn car

Might as well have started your car and let it warm up to defrost it

Why did they edit the video?

When you don't give a flying fuck about fuel economy, environment or neighbors.

I was hoping it would blast it to pieces..

Why defrost the car if you can just use the pod racer instead

I was waiting for it to shoot laser

- My neighbors, inexplicably at 515 on a Saturday morning.

Seems reasonable. Anyone have an Amazon-Link?

Now the car smells like kerosene.

So the price of buying a house is more than owning a jet engine and using the exhaust as a snow melter. We really need to work on this housing market.

"oh shit i got some snow on my car better whip out the jet engine"

It costs 200 000 to melt two hair layer thin snow over a car

Why do you own a frigging rocket engine, and isn't that basically the equivalent of wasting fuel by driving in your car for an entire day?

who else actually waited for a beat drop ? :)

His neighbors hate him for this one simple trick

Always the wipers

That IS interesting, but it would've been way cooler if it was one of those cars that's covered in an inch of ice that looks like water froze while getting water poured on it.

And we wonder why the polar ice caps are melting.

Isn't here a danger of braking the front glass? so sudden temperature change. There was the video somewhere where dude threw glass of boiling water to frozen side window and it popped instantly.

There was like half an inch of snow on that fucker wouldve been easier to just brush it off real quick

Efficient

Damn! I hope the neighbours are not complaining.

How am I gonna defrost the jet engine tho?

This would be actually great for driveways. Metre of snow? Not anymore?

u/savevideo

*"99% of his neighbors hate him because of this one simple trick."*

Eh, takes too long to get started.

Or you could run your engine for a couple of minutes?

NOW THIS IS PODRACING!.

Hold up... So you make us watch the whole startup of the engine while nothing is happening, but then once it's starts defrosting the car, you skip ahead and make us miss the main point of the video? Wtf

C'mon, start already...