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01-26-2006, 03:12 PM
What a blistery morning. Get out, start the car and it barely turns over. Close the door and it doesn't catch. Right. It's cold and frozen, okay. I keep a heat gun in the car for that very reason.
Go to the trunk to get it. Trunk is frozen shut. Don't get me wrong, it's not iced over like freezing rain :) With a lot of effort, trunk opens with a 'kshhhhhhhhhhhhht'. Fire up the heatgun but my trustly 800w inverter doesn't want to handle 400w this morning :(
I do little bursts of heat, then I remember again... yeah... lift and hold the handle. Let it heat itself. Not sure if it actually did (car is on at the time), but closed door and the catch worked.
Okay, so now the question. How do I alleviate the 'frozen trunk' scenario? This of course has a mirrored impact on frozen doors... you open and it feels like you're peeling the seals off. Is there something I can put around the seals to condition it perhaps? What of the lock and latch itself?
Go to the trunk to get it. Trunk is frozen shut. Don't get me wrong, it's not iced over like freezing rain :) With a lot of effort, trunk opens with a 'kshhhhhhhhhhhhht'. Fire up the heatgun but my trustly 800w inverter doesn't want to handle 400w this morning :(
I do little bursts of heat, then I remember again... yeah... lift and hold the handle. Let it heat itself. Not sure if it actually did (car is on at the time), but closed door and the catch worked.
Okay, so now the question. How do I alleviate the 'frozen trunk' scenario? This of course has a mirrored impact on frozen doors... you open and it feels like you're peeling the seals off. Is there something I can put around the seals to condition it perhaps? What of the lock and latch itself?