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RE: First cold morning - evoque wouldn't open - PhilSkill - 11-12-2012 11:23pm
Darn... Forgot to try this at the weekend and door frozen solid this morning, seems to be just the top edge rubber strip, just used the heat of my fingers to slowly defrost the edge until it came loose... Then I wished I had the heated steering wheel after that!
Will definitely try the Autoglym it when I get the chance...
RE: First cold morning - evoque wouldn't open - Ian Stuart - 12-12-2012 02:45pm
Just bought my new Dynamic got up on a really frosty morning cant open the doors . AHHHHH
found the solution Silcone Lubricant spray get it from Halfords, spray on to a cloth then wipe the rubber seals
on the door and car. fantastic
Halfords Silicone Lubricant 400ml heres the link below
Halfords Silicone Lubricant Spray works wonders for sticking freezing door seals
RE: First cold morning - evoque wouldn't open - PhilSkill - 12-12-2012 03:03pm
Cheers and Welcome Ian, I have some Silicon Spray from Autoglym which I've never used and looks exactly the same stuff, so i'll scratch the Vinyl and rubber care (which would probably work anyway) and use this.
RE: First cold morning - evoque wouldn't open - PhilSkill - 12-12-2012 09:24pm
Autoglym Silicone Spray now applied to the top edges of the door shuts, should still be frozen tomorrow, but as it's not wet I doubt it would stick anyway!
RE: First cold morning - evoque wouldn't open - neil-c - 12-12-2012 09:41pm
Have had the sticky door seals then the other morning rear NS door opens fine but door latch seems to freeze in the open position meaning the door won't close and the door handle sticks out. Eventually thaws out and releases after car has sat running for a while but far from handy. Car goes back in next week but guy in the dealership I spoke to said he had a freelander do same thing on the same morning. Hope this is resolved though as winter has only just begun!!
RE: First cold morning - evoque wouldn't open - PhilSkill - 13-12-2012 09:53am
Doors not frozen today, although there had been a significant frost build up, so seems to have worked!
RE: First cold morning - evoque wouldn't open - Evo-king - 13-12-2012 09:21pm
Given the thousands of hours of design & development of this car, maybe we should let LR know about this.
For crying out loud this is the UK, not the Arctic.
Any ideas folks.
RE: First cold morning - evoque wouldn't open - cjfp - 13-12-2012 09:23pm
(13-12-2012 09:21pm)Evo-king Wrote: Given the thousands of hours of design & development of this car, maybe we should let LR know about this.
For crying out loud this is the UK, not the Arctic.
Any ideas folks.
But it was tested in the arctic ... Maybe it was the wrong type of too cold there !
RE: First cold morning - evoque wouldn't open - Evo-king - 13-12-2012 09:32pm
I'm off to Halfords at the weekend for supplies.
RE: First cold morning - evoque wouldn't open - same2you - 26-12-2012 08:40pm
If you watch at about the 1 minute mark in this video, they seem to have looked at it in their testing... http://bit.ly/ZB9i8l
Maybe their test didn't take water/ice into account
