Drivers urged to rub brown onions on car windscreens in November

It’s the time of year where drivers begin battling ice, frost and even snow making it difficult to set off every morning. There’s little worse than rushing out of your house in the freezing cold when it’s still dark in the morning and having to spend an age scraping ice off your windscreen while your engine is running and you’re trying not to be late for work or the school run.

But experts say there’s a way you can avoid all of that, by using a simple brown onion. It may sound odd, but rubbing an onion on your windscreen can actually stop your car from icing over in these cold and wintry November conditions, say experts.

LeaseCar recommends onions as a way to prevent icing overnight. Prevention is cheaper than the cure, as they say, which could mean you avoid spending the next mornin