'Poured warm water on frozen lock areas several years ago to thaw 'em; I'd carefully use hair drier if necessary. Likely won't have this again for years.
BTW, I think I got a little frostbite on tips of fingers cleaning the snow off yesterday - not prepared for it, bare hands, etc; fingers tingling today. 'Need to remember that thermodynamics works here, too. Wilton ----- Original Message ----- From: "Curt Raymond" <curtlud...@yahoo.com> To: "Diesel List" <mercedes@okiebenz.com> Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2009 10:51 AM Subject: Re: [MBZ] Low temp starting I have this problem regularly with my 240D worse on the driver's door than the passenger. My 190D has it occasionaly but not anywhere near as bad. One time when I couldn't get the door locks open on the 190D I successfully unlocked the trunk... When I was driving the 240D as my only car I used to carry a propane torch with me, that ment taking it everywhere I went, in the office, in stores etc... A cold propane torch is useless... Unfrozed that car one time with a lighter element from a coworkers trunk... -Curt Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 10:33:11 -0500 From: "Wilton Strickland" <wilt...@nc.rr.com> Subject: Re: [MBZ] Low temp starting To: "Mercedes Discussion List" <mercedes@okiebenz.com> Message-ID: <002201c97ca6$bc8f67e0$0301a...@computer> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" I had planned to pick up grandson at about 1100 day before yesterday and have an "inauguration" luncheon with him and some other men at a local restaurant. 'Was unable to get into any door in either one of my cars because of ice - freak/rare (for here) storm deposited 2 - 3 of snow and ice with temps in teens. Key would not turn in locks, etc., and, yes, I know how to safely thaw them. 'Called grandson and asked him to come pick me up; his doors (85 BMW 318i) had the same prob. It was still snowing and very windy (plenty of chill factor); he and I went back inside to our respective TV's for the inauguration and waited for mother nature to thaw the door locks by 1100 yesterday. BTW, the little spring-loaded doors on the key slots are in place. Wilton 91 350SDL (195 kmi) 87 300D (111 kmi) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://okiebenz.com/pipermail/mercedes_okiebenz.com/attachments/20090122/f1 9f3922/attachment.html> _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
