I'd be careful with a 201 or newer as theres a lot of plastic right there, with the old 123 I just hold the torch flame right on the lock, no worries... I guess I'm pretty redneck.
I did melt the door handle ever so slightly a couple times. Worst was last summer when I was trying to get the locks unstuck. If I'd have known the amount of crud in there before I started I wouldn't have wasted my time. -Curt Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 16:36:57 -0500 From: "Wilton Strickland" <wilt...@nc.rr.com> Subject: Re: [MBZ] Low temp starting To: "Mercedes Discussion List" <mercedes@okiebenz.com> Message-ID: <001201c97cd9$8e0353e0$0301a...@computer> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" '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 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://okiebenz.com/pipermail/mercedes_okiebenz.com/attachments/20090122/6da05c20/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