Garage...

In the great white North, we are used to this ! .. so here's some practical suggestions...
No scientific proof for these readily avalable home products .. but worth a try if you aint got any those premade stuff

Helpful Hints For Winter

Keep your headlights clear with car wax! Just wipe ordinary car wax on your headlights. It contains special water repellents that will prevent that messy winter grime accumulating on your headlights - lasts 6 weeks.




Prevent car doors from freezing shut with cooking spray! Spritz cooking oil on the rubber seals around car doors & rub it in with a paper towel. The cooking spray prevents water from melting into the rubber


Fog-proof your windshield with shaving cream! Spray some shaving cream on the inside of your windshield & wipe if off with paper towels. Shaving cream has many of the same ingredients found in commercial defoggers.


De-ice your lock in seconds with hand sanitizer! Just put some hand sanitizer gel on the key & the lock & the problems solved!

:tup: thanks

Haha I used some of those tricks before. Grew up outside for Regina Sk then Edmonton for ~10yrs so I know what cold and snow is really well lol...

Been about 3 weeks now since I stored the Z I do miss the drive but way the roads are out here with the gravel I would miss my paint job more :rolleyes:

Yeah, I read that thread... first stop on the way home from picking it up if I recall. Major fail!

:facepalm: Well my window, as well as my door handle and even the lock button were frozen this morning. I don't know if that anti-freeze **** I tried just didn't work or if all the damn rain washed it away, it does say your supposed to spray it on every night :shakes head:

Guess I'll just keep going down the list here and see what works :eekdance:

Upon further inspection I just noticed the rubber seal along the bottom of the window, with the felt or what ever it is on the other side, is not even touching the window. That is supposed to be there to keep debris out of the door right, obviously mine would not be doing it's job then and it would allow water, as well as anything else, to get in there and freeze, explaining my problem I think. Is this unique to my car, I assume it is, but would some of you guys be willing to go look at yours and see how bad it is. The drivers side has much more of a gap then the passengers, I pushed it in with my finger and it looks better now but I'm sure that is just temporary and either way it's still not really "sealed" if you will.

Update, if anyone is interested. It was 20 degrees and snowy this morning, and I could get into my car. We'll see how things progress but it looks promising, so far.

:facepalm Well my windows still haven't frozen again, yet. They were pretty sluggish this morning though. But I did get to find out the hard way that you can open the roof by holding the lock button...

This seems like an even more useless feature then being able to open the windows with the key (I can see some benefit there) You can imagine how great that sounded at 5:00 when my icy frozen roof was desperately trying to pry itself open :shakes head: