Watch-Out, Frosty's About ! ....... Frozen Doors (archive)

To open the Z8 doors, it is necessary for the windows to drop-down 1 cm or so. Unfortunately if it's cold, like it occassionally can be in Britain, the windows freeze up and you can't open the f@@king doors !!!!!!!!!!!

Even using antifreeze to de-ice the window doesn't always do the trick and when it does, it takes a while to work.

It's a joke, last weekend, it took me 15 minutes to open the doors of my luxury top of the range BMW sports car.

The only solution that I can see is to have window heaters fitted to kick-in when the remote is used to unlock the doors.

The problem appears to be at the bottom of the window, at the rubber sill. If there is any condensation, it freezes solid in the cold.

Comments please (don't suggest I put the car in a nice warm garage)

Regards
Adam.

Follow Ups:

A helping hand from the 8-series forum MP 17:19 2/15/2001 (2)
- Re: A helping hand from the 8-series forum -THANKS Adam-UK 03:38 2/16/2001 (1)
  - Re: A helping hand from the 8-series forum -THANKS MP 10:06 2/16/2001 (0)
What Problem it never freezes in SoCal? :-) Z8 Bob 17:11 2/15/2001 (1)
- Re: What Problem it never freezes in SoCal? :-) kjy 15:39 2/16/2001 (0)
sure these cars were born in Bavaria? r114 11:13 2/15/2001 (0)
This was made intentionally Thomas G. 06:33 2/15/2001 (0)
Re: Watch-Out, Frosty's About ! ....... Frozen Doo Z8Mania 06:25 2/15/2001 (0)

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