Author Topic: It is so cold outside my car door is frozen open.  (Read 1987 times)



mmmm i wouldn't risk that tbh. i recall my mother doing something similar with her car door and the latch became "unhooked" so we had to pop off the door panel and hook it back up.

I would suggest getting a space heater or something that generates some kind of heat outside and having it placed near the latch
What kind of car was this?

Piss on it
"Help forums my richard is stuck to the car door"

What kind of car was this?


it was a used 2002 volvo s60

actually i just realized i was talking about something else entirely. nevermind lol

it was a used 2002 volvo s60
Might have been a bit old or the latch was worn out, never heard of ice unlatching them

Might have been a bit old or the latch was worn out, never heard of ice unlatching them

actually i had remembered wrong. i was talking about the lever that pulls on the line that opens the latch

actually i had remembered wrong. i was talking about the lever that pulls on the line that opens the latch
Oh, that makes more sense. Cables tend to get unhooked easier in the cold for some reason

grab LARGE BOWL of hot water
dump on car :)
I wouldn't do that... You can shatter the wind shield if it's frozen:

http://fox2now.com/2013/12/05/blasting-heat-on-frozen-windshield-can-break-glass/

But of course, warm water may be fine, but make sure it's not boiling.

bic lighter
point at door handle
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profit

"Help forums my richard is stuck to the car door"
that sounds like the next tuna jar

Am i the only person here that lives in a warm af climate? its like norm 85/90 degrees F here, in the winter its more like 60/70 degrees F here ._.



last winter my door wouldn't close either

i used 6' of ethernet cable from work to tie my driver-side door to the the passenger door, then drove with the window down some to help suck it shut at highway speeds. I haven't had this issue again yet, thanks to the lack of 20F degree weather

Well I posted in the Car Thread on what I've been dealing with on my car....

My two year old sister managed to get a hold of the remote for my car and she popped the trunk in the middle of the worst rainstorm of the year (we have record smashing flooding going on for scale), Thing is, neither I nor my family found out until several hours later and it rained in my car the whole time. When I went out there to fix an issue with my license plate light, I found that the trunk carpet was so wet that the water came up through my fingers when I pressed on it, so I yanked all the carpet out. At that point, I discovered that the spare tire compartment had filled almost 80% of the way with brown water, so I pulled everything out of there and pumped the water out.

The next day when I went to try to install my aftermarket radio, I found a standing pool of water on the floor in front of the right side of the backseat. The bench was completely soaked too. I pulled the bench out and then discovered that there was a small pool of water in the compartment with the car's battery. I soaked and dried up as much as I could but everything is still pretty damp.