What is the best way to keep car doors from freezing shut?

Question

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Answer 1

take an old sheet and drape over your car door inside and out then shut. also drape one over your windsheild to keep from having to scrape ice off in the mornings

Answer 2

These conditions don't happen too often with ice but they do arise. When you suspect it will be one of those nights, just drape a heavy piece of plastic over the top of the door and place a refrigerator magnet or two down low, past the window molding rubber seam. Anything you spray into that door other than a silicone type lubricant will make the inside of the car smell terrible, Your right, it's not necessarily the lock, but the rods that go across the door from the main lock to the inside door handle ( most likely ). Some cars just have a real poor window seal where it meets the door and it a real pain. So, for the amount of times we experience freezing rain conditions, you might just want to try this. Get yourself some spray silicone and a bit longer plastic tube to direct some spray onto the linkage as well. If you arrive home with wet windows that will soon freeze up, get the plastic on it as soon as you can. I hope this helps a bit... It works for me in Lower NY State.... 95 Toyota Camry...

Answer 3

One way is if you're foam rubber around the door is freezing your door shut,is to dry out the foam rubber with the doors open in a warm garage for about a day and spray silicone on the foam rubber. If it is your door locks,wait for a warm day and take some compressed air to the outside of your lock hole and hold a rag over it before you shoot some air into the door lock. After doing that 2-3 times,use a lubricant that will work best in freezing temperatures and spray into keyhole.

Answer 4

you dont wash your car in cold weather. The moisture will remain becuse it will run down the water rails. Then overnight the door freezes shut .Mostly where the glass touches the weatherstrip. Try wiping the weatherstip dry and add some anti sieze or graphite into the door lock to keep the tumblers lubricated.
good luck

Answer 5

Park in garage. Okay, now that my smart aleck answer is over I will admit that I don't know. My guess is it would depend on the age of the car therefore the seal on the door. I have rarely had that problem unless it we've had freezing rain. Then there is a lot of swearing and chipping at the door.

We gave my son some De-Ice stuff for Christmas one year because he didn't get to park on our car port and his older car's doors froze a lot. One morning he came rushing into the house late for school asking me to take him because he couldn't get the frozen door opened. I asked where his De-Ice stuff was and his answer was: "In the car". True story.

Answer 6

Not washing car before freezing weather. Second park car inside. Clear out enough junk from your garage to park inside.

Answer 7

Take cooking oil and apply to the seals of your doors, rubbing on a thin layer. you may have to repeat once a month though the winter. this is cheap and effective.

Answer 8

There is a special spray you can buy at automotive supply places. You spray it in your lock and in the door latch. Do it before you go to bed at night if it is going to be really cold.

Answer 9

Move to Florida

Answer 10

cooking oil works