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Door Stickage
Is anyone experiencing door and trunk stickage to to the cold weather? Everytime it snows very hard my doors are frozen shut and I cant get in, and none of my other family members ever have that problem. Sometimes it would get so bad that I had to fold down my backseat and crawl in the through the trunk. Yesterday my dad took it for a carwash and the people didn't dry it well and now my trunk and doors all were frozen shut in this 8 degree weather. It's getting very frustrating. I did a search and didnt find anything. Does anyone have any suggestions?
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Tim 92 Liquid Silver SVX 5MT 2009 BMW Z4 (Gone) 2012 Camry V6 SE |
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Any car where the weather stripping seals as well as the SVX will experience this problem with the doors freezing shut. A way to avoid it might be to clean the area of the door jams where the stripping makes contact and apply a coating of silicon. This will not interfere with the sealing but should make it very hard for the ice to get a grip on the painted surface where the weather stripping makes contact and freezes. It should help with the problem you are having. Even a little vasaline smeared thinly on the weather stripping might help a bunch to keep the ice from bonding to it. Good luck. Mine does it on occasion and it can be a real b***h to open. Haven't been locked out yet but never say never
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Pearl '92 LS-L 179K (Historic 1st 5-speed SVX) Mods: 5-speed, 4.11's, Group-N motor mounts, dual Magnaflows, cone air filter, Kenwood MP-228 CD/Receiver, white-faced gauges, '97 grill, custom window tinting. Ebony Mica '92 LS 80K Oct 2002 - Dec 2004: Victim of theft. She served me well. You can tell the lack of craftsmanship by the wrinkles in the duct tape. |
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Thanks! Do you recommend any particular products to use? And doesnt vaseline weaken the weatherstripping? I'm just wondering because they say that it will do that to latex on warning labels. Hehe.
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Tim 92 Liquid Silver SVX 5MT 2009 BMW Z4 (Gone) 2012 Camry V6 SE |
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Pearl '92 LS-L 179K (Historic 1st 5-speed SVX) Mods: 5-speed, 4.11's, Group-N motor mounts, dual Magnaflows, cone air filter, Kenwood MP-228 CD/Receiver, white-faced gauges, '97 grill, custom window tinting. Ebony Mica '92 LS 80K Oct 2002 - Dec 2004: Victim of theft. She served me well. You can tell the lack of craftsmanship by the wrinkles in the duct tape. |
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...or try Lexol Vinylex. i usually do all the weatherstripping and hoses, too, with this stuff to keep them flexible so they don't dry out. also good for the interior vinyl/rubber/plastic - has UV protectors.
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Alan 1987 928 S4 (Black) SOLD! 1997 SVX LSi (Ebony) SOLD! 2005 Legacy GT (Silver) [Cobb Stg 2+] SOLD! 1987 928 S4 (Black) SOLD! 2005 Forester XT Premium (Crystal Gray Metallic) SOLD! 2008 Lancer Evolution X MR (Apex Silver) [Cobb Stg 1+] 2015 Outlander Sport 2.4GT AWD (Mercury Gray) 2013 G37xS (Obsidian Black) |
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Pearl '92 LS-L 179K (Historic 1st 5-speed SVX) Mods: 5-speed, 4.11's, Group-N motor mounts, dual Magnaflows, cone air filter, Kenwood MP-228 CD/Receiver, white-faced gauges, '97 grill, custom window tinting. Ebony Mica '92 LS 80K Oct 2002 - Dec 2004: Victim of theft. She served me well. You can tell the lack of craftsmanship by the wrinkles in the duct tape. |
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I know! But I figured since they were both a rubber of some sort they wouldnt be far off. The weatherstripping on the SVX is so tight you wouldnt have to worry about the "swimmies" getting in
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Tim 92 Liquid Silver SVX 5MT 2009 BMW Z4 (Gone) 2012 Camry V6 SE |
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try aerosol PAM
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