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GAH!! Talk about a pain in the.......

mcvickj

mcvickj

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About 15 minutes before I have to leave for work I start my car via the remote starter. I finish getting around for work and have a quick bite to eat. I get down to my car and try to unlock it via the remote starter and no dice. So I insert the key into the drivers side door, nothing. DAMNIT!

So I go over to the passenger side door to try the key. With a little bit of persuasion I manage to get the door open. I crawl through the car and push the drivers side door open. As I get out of the car and close the passenger side door I notice that it doesn't close. The latch mechanism isn't working. So I start fiddling with the door handle on the inside and outside trying to get the latch into the close position but nothing is working. So for the moment I go over to the drivers side door to see if that will close. NOPE! Same damn problem.

So I go back up to my apartment looking for anything to help and all I find is a can of WD-40. So I squirt the WD-40 into both doors and start fiddling with the door handles trying to get the doors to close. After a few minutes I finally get the drivers side door to work. It took another 4 minutes to finally get the passenger side door closed.

This is what happens when yesterday we had a high of 54 degrees and this morning it was 12 degrees. Sure I could get one of those little cans of deicer but I don't even think that would have helped.

Just felt like ranting.
 
Originally posted by: BroeBo
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A fellow Michigander in the same boat as me and GoodDad. I had to kick open my girlfriend's door from the inside because it had ice-welded shut last night. We had a lot of rain, then it got SUPER cold, and well, you know what a lot of water does when it gets really cold.

Also, I feel your pain about the door problems. The inside handle on my drivers side broke and doesn't latch onto the mechanism. I have to crawl out on the passenger side now 🙁
 
I know it is so cold now, when I went outside this morning is must have been like 60 degrees or something
 
Fresh out of college and new to the city of Atlanta, my very first day of my very first real job I started my car and accidently locked my keys inside, making myself late to work. That was a great day back in 1996.
 
garages rule. i love going out when there's a foot of snow on the ground and my car is clean. Just back out and I'm ready to go.
 
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