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I heard an old wives tale that if you rub some vegetable oil on your weatherstipping, it will not freeze, will try it as soon as I get my car back from the heated garage!!!!!!!!!! NEW TIRES AND NEW SWAY BAR< SO HAPPY
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also if you put vaseline or equivalent on all your rubber weather stripping it will prolong it s life nad help preventit from freezing
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Just got home from working about 20 min ago. I put in 11.5 hours today. There was alot of ice under the snow. Early in the day it was slush under the snow, but later as it got colder the slush froze. We put down alot of material today. I used about 300 pounds of ice melt on walkways and the dump truck used 2 loads of sand and salt mixture on the parking lots. Each load is about 2.5 tons.
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that ice pellet crap beneath the snow was no picnic clearing out today.
Especially being as sick as we are.
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Originally posted by frenchblueC2:
that ice pellet crap beneath the snow was no picnic clearing out today.
Especially being as sick as we are.
You should knock out the family room and turn the basement into a 4-5 car garage .. can avoid this situation 
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Yeah, the GL's doors freeze up pretty good. Its mostly the locks that freeze so we have to leave it unlocked when its really cold out. We've been having a problem with the doors freezing open every now and then!! Yeah, I said open. The latch won't catch and the door just bounces open as was the case this morning!!
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i like the way matty thinks!
the protege usually only has a problem with the drivers side rear door.
i will pull the handle and it wont open.
halfway to work the door ajar light comes on and the dome light comes on.
bah
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What is probably wrong with the latches is that they have become loaded with contaminants and when they get cold they thicken and don't allow the mechanisms to work. We had to do thorough cleanings and servicing on the doors of the planes when I worked at Lear Jet on a regular basis. Usually the mechanisms became sluggush becasue the lubricant became loaded with wear particles and dust. We cleaned them with liberal spraying with either alcohol or electrical contact cleaner (becasue they disolved the gunk real good and then evaporated completely away fast), work the mechanism, spray it, work the mechanism, spray it, etc. until the run off from spraying was completely clean. Then we relubricted them with what ever they needed, some needed light oils, others ultra low temp grease (specail stuff that was good to -100F) I think that for the cars' latches a water displacing, penetrating, light oil would work well... something like WD-40. If you're worried about a oily mess a sprayable dry film lubricant that repels water would work too, like a silicone or teflon spray.
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Originally posted by Cobra:
Yeah, the GL's doors freeze up pretty good. Its mostly the locks that freeze so we have to leave it unlocked when its really cold out. We've been having a problem with the doors freezing open every now and then!! Yeah, I said open. The latch won't catch and the door just bounces open as was the case this morning!!
I had that problem after I finally got my doors open. Had to play with the latch and then slam (ouch!) the door to get it to shut. My rear door slid is so mucked up that you can hear me open the doors from a few hundred feet away (think really big nails on chalkboard). So much for being covert late at night  .
This weather is a b#$ch on our cars... makes a great case to buy something used from Texas or Arizona, or any other warm, dry southern state.
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Originally posted by Cobra:
We've been having a problem with the doors freezing open every now and then!! Yeah, I said open. The latch won't catch and the door just bounces open as was the case this morning!!
This used to happen to me once in while, I would end up just driving holding the driver door shut until it would warm up and catch the latch, was usually a couple miles before it unfreeze.
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