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.

Ever wondered why there are parallel horizontal lines running across the rear window of a car? Those lines are present to heat the rear window which helps to remove mist from the window. Read on to ...

General Motors (GM) has issued a recall for a reported 159,000 pickup trucks in Canada for a faulty rear window defroster that could overheat and lead to a fire. The recall affects the Chevrolet ...

Q: I just noticed my rear window defroster has a big gap in the middle that doesn’t defrost. It’s about 2 inches high. I was told the window needs to be replaced to fix this, and it’s really expensive ...

On my rear window defroster only two lines completely clear and one has a small circle which it clears in the centre. Is there any way that these lines can be made to fully work and clear the rear ...

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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 ...

View post: This 990-HP Chinese SUV Could Disrupt the Global EV Market The notice says the rear defroster circuit, specifically on trucks with the power-sliding rear window, could overheat. Because of ...

Some Honda HR-V crossovers have a manufacturing problem in the rear window that MotorTrend dubbed a "self-destruct function." Hundreds of HR-V owners have complained to federal safety regulators that ...

A GM truck recall has been issued in Canada for more than 159,000 units of the Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra half-ton and heavy-duty trucks equipped with the power sliding rear window. The ...