Help help: How do I open a frozen car door?

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How do I open a frozen car door?

All are frozen solid shut–even spraying de-icer is not helping.

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jcd 1 #
An Unknown Location | 12 months ago (3 minutes after post)

Get a hair dryer and thaw out the edges of the door and the handle/lock.

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An Unknown Location | 12 months ago (7 minutes after post)

I used to use hot water poured slowly over the lock. There some commercial items available, but I assume you need to get to work. Get Hot water in a 1/2 gallon or so in a container, and pour it slowly over the lock. Should free it up. But you’re pouring water so if you go away to get more, it may freeze again. Good luck.

miss_enigma 1 #
An Undisclosed Location | 12 months ago (44 minutes after post)

I have never had any really nice autos so I generally kick the door which serves two purposes, one, it breaks the seal of ice and two, it feels dang good…stupid winter :P

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An Undisclosed Location | 12 months ago (45 minutes after post)

Or you could boil some water and add some salt to it and pour it over…that works too :)

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jcd 1 #
An Unknown Location | 12 months ago (1 hour, 20 minutes after post)

You need to be careful with hot water, though. I’ve see people pour hot water on frozen windows and crack the glass.

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miss_enigma 1 #
An Undisclosed Location | 12 months ago (1 hour, 56 minutes after post)

Ohh good point!

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Anonymous #
12 months ago (10 hours, 2 minutes after post)

Thanks, everyone. Those were all really good ideas. It was frustrating becoming late for work over this–just because I couldn’t get into the car!

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An Unknown Location | 11 months, 2 weeks ago (1 week, 5 days after post)

I always get it by grabbing the top corner of the door and have another person pull on the handle.. that always works for me and that way you dont break the handle off the door.

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