With the arrival of winter, car owners begin to face continuous problems. Either the car gets stuck in a snowdrift, or it won’t start due to a frozen engine, or even you won’t be able to get into it at all, since opening a frozen door becomes very difficult. Often, when we are in a hurry to go to work or on important matters, the “ritual of dancing” near a frozen car door becomes a mandatory procedure. Opening the door in severe frost is quite difficult, and sometimes even impossible. Most often the problem is in the lock.

The lock or doors freeze because the heat source is on the inside, and the cold source is on the outside.

And due to the fact that high temperature differences occur, condensation forms on them, and when arriving in prolonged frost, it freezes. The lock is blocked. How to open a frozen door if you need to do everything quickly and wait until everything gradually thaws; there is no time or desire. Read on.

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Get to the salon

In unusual situations, think more broadly. Please note that your car has at least two doors, usually four, and in station wagons or SUVs, together with the trunk, there are even five of them. If the door on the driver's side does not open, try opening the others one by one, perhaps one will give way. Consider that everything worked out and you have solved this problem. To defrost the remaining doors, just turn on the stove or heating.

Put in a little effort

Ice is a fragile substance.

If it has covered a small surface of the door, you can simply try to break it and break it. To do this, knock on the door and pull it harder, especially near the lock. But do not overdo it, so as not to break the handle and damage your car. The same manipulation can be repeated with the remaining doors, as in the previous method.

Use a screwdriver

From available means, the best option would be a wooden or plastic lever in the form of a crowbar, a metal spatula, a small knife and other means that can be used to pry off the ice between the door and the car body.

To do this, you need to insert this object into the door gap and gradually, with little effort, chip away the ice from the door. This is a fairly effective method, but do not forget that it is also easy to damage the door itself or the coating of the car body.

Use electrical appliances

Of course, this is the easiest and fastest way to quickly defrost doors. But its downside is that it is not very practical. If you have an outlet on hand or an extension cord of suitable length, you can use a hairdryer and try to melt the ice-covered areas of the door.

Anti-ice remedy

Buy an effective anti-freeze product. It is intended specifically for defrosting icy areas on a car. A special thin nozzle will allow you to reach inaccessible places, such as door locks or narrow cracks. And the sprayer will quickly melt layers of ice over large areas.

Melt with hot water

When defrosting doors with hot water, it is important to consider that it will subsequently cool down and freeze. But if you urgently need to open the car at this very moment, then pour hot water on the frozen areas, tapping on the door in this place. It will quickly melt the ice on the surface and you will open the door. You can apply a bottle of warm water to small areas of freezing, but in severe frost this is ineffective.