CARS.COM — Worst-case-scenario: You just brought home a new SRT Viper and parked it in your driveway to ensure the neighbors got a drool-eliciting look at your ride — made all the more dazzling by that Stryker Red Tinted Pearl paint job for which you forked over an extra $14,600. As karma for your vehicular vanity would have it, a nasty snowstorm hits that night, and by the time you wake up, there’s 4 inches of snow covering your $178,000 supercar. You have to get this thing cleared off ASAP — after all, your neighbors will be leaving for work soon and won’t be able to tell what’s underneath all that snow.
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First, do not pull out your handcrafted corn-straw broom and start sweeping away or you’ll quickly find that your college-tuition-priced paint job doesn’t have quite the same effect with brush strokes etched into it. The same goes for nylon snow brushes and especially shovels. The recommended tool for this precarious job is a foam brush. A popular one is the SnoBrum, which has a nonabrasive, freeze-resistant molded polyethylene foam brush head with a recessed hard-plastic plate to prevent contact with the vehicle’s surface; it has a steel telescoping extendable handle that extends up to 46 inches for maximum reach.