I'm serious boys - the best way to open your frozen doors is to blow into the lock barrel a few times. Jobs a good'un.

Yup! Come across a few people with their lips stuck to the metal door in very cold weather!


"You were only supposed to blow the bloody doors off!"

boom-tisch!

I've got the winter boots on the bravo now (on 20vt wheels; the tyres are 3% small but I'm not throwing them away until they're dead) so it's allowed to snow.

It's been snowing today.

Nothin lying yet but to be bad tomorrow.

Ross

Chillier and chillier through here, the polythene's already on the screen.

Baltic at my bit this morning! First experiance of frozen locks which wasn't fun at 7am! Just as well the mothers Fiat 500 was sittin doing nuthin! Yoink!

Have you read this?

http://www.fiatcoupeclub.org/forum/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=1264975#Post1264975

Winter has been here since the start of October, we have had over 1 metre of snow falling and it's been sub zero every night since then. You have it easy! Good job there are no coupe's here!

Have now! Good info there, will give it a go later today!

Cheers

What you doing there then Phil. I thought you waer looking after some grass. How do you know it's still there

I'm the stadium director, so have other jobs as well as preparing shitty old grass pitches

Silicon spray on door rubbers and locks all round ......drat the wee trapdoor has fallen in on the boot lock

Coop frozen completely solid again this morning, more about it in the "worst thing you've done to your coupe" thread...

Seems there are still some Coop owners struggling to open their doors. To repeat myself again, I use graphite oil spray in the locks with very good results. - 4 degrees this morning & my Coops doors opened no problem. I was caught out & I'm trying to get the ice & snow completely off the car before I can get the cover on.

If anyone is interested....Force penetrating & graphite spray, purchased off eBay a couple of years ago.

Linky here.......


or here too

I have to second the graphite spray treatment and especially silicone on the door rubbers, particularly after last winter.

A couple of days I managed to de-ice the door enough to get in a drive the car, but by the time I got to the car park, it had frozen up again. In fact I had to leave it un-locked (actually just pushed to as it was frozen again in the un-locked position!) all day.

No trouble at all since the silicone and graphite treatments.