Hopkins 19621 Duo-Grip 22" Snowbrush

 (3 customer reviews)

Ice scrapers are a pretty humble tool, no one gives them much thought. Having spent my life in regions where layers of ice cover car windows every single winter morning, I'd gone through dozens of ice scrapers before stumbling on this guy. This one has clearly been designed by people who deal with a lot of icy windows.

First, they got the angles right. Most scrapers do this reasonably well so this isn't much of an accomplishment, but this one is the complete package. You get a good angle on both the windshield and the side windows, in most cases you only need a single pass. The handle is solidly designed so you can keep a decent grip when sweeping snow, too.

Second, the brush. You want the brush parallel with the handle to make it easy to sweep snow off the car. Many ice scrapers either omit the brush or attach it parallel with the scraper blade.. neither case is useful when you got 6 inches of powder to clear.

Third, the extra handle hovering over the...Read more

Luckily I haven't had to use it often. But for ice and light snow it has worked wonderfully. Wish I had bought two.

This ice scraper was too gimmicky and did not perform to our expectations, it did not break the ice adequately or remove if from the windshield