Went to get the snows on the Wife's S...crap. :incazzato: The car is frozen solid with the tires inside...at this rate, I'll be unloading them in the Spring as more snow is predicted tonite! :mad2: Sure is a good thing I was able to get the snows on MY S before all this weather appeared!
I use gallons of hot water to unfreeze the doors and windows when we get iced in, it works great. Some spray silicone on the door seals will help keep it from sticking again.
Thanks...I'll try that, but I may have broken the driver's side door handle latch in my extreme angst this morning. I can never leave well enough alone! :mad2:
I saw that freeze coming & went out & cleaned the snow off Skooby before it froze to solid ice. Guess I should have called you Jeff to tell you what was going to happen. :wink:
It was pouring between 3 and 4 AM, Sunday, but the snow had fallen by 7 and was already pretty much frozen. In the past, there was always a letup and I guess I just assumed it would let up, but it never did and now the car will sit until it either warms a bit outside or I get off my arse and dump hot water on the frozen locks. I just need to get the car started and warmed up so I can hie off to get the snows on before the next big snow.
I drove to the store and smelled something nasty, it was coming from the heater. When I got home, I checked the cabin filter. There was a mouse nest in there! It was made from cabin filter and moss. I cleaned it out and sprayed Ozium air sanitizer in the filter space, The car smells Okay now. I backed the car into the carport so as to confuse the mouse, if it comes back.
You best keep checking your car. Mice can do a lot of damage. I saw a picture somewhere where a guy put a screen over the opening to the HVAC system. If you look behind the battery you will be amazed at the size of the hole there. Heck a squirrel could get in.
The MINI sits again, snow covered and cold. I like snow, especially when there is no place I need to go.
I'd leave some tasty Decon treats out for br'er mouse. I read somewhere that Mini's wire insulation has a soy content. Rodentia find it tasty. I remember when I was stationed at Vandenberg the refurb trailers would park next to the missile silos and the ground squirrels would strip every bit of insulation from any exposed wiring under the trailers. And that was PVC insulation.
That explains what happened to my neighbor's MINI. Some wiring was chewed out by rodents. I suggested they use their garage to park the car in rather than as a storage shed.
The longer you leave your car sit the more likely to have it chewed on. Build a better mouse trap. [ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSk79YcuIRQ"]Making a 5 gal. bucket mouse trap. - YouTube[/ame]
Well I was going to start working on it, so I started looking harder at things, and realized why there was a spare wiring harness in the back of the car. It looked like a third grader with a pair of scissors went after the one that was in the car, probably why it was never able to start... So I just told the guy I was buying it from that He could keep the car. A month later, I gave him two weeks to get it out of my garage or start paying $20 per day for storage. GONE!
Yeah if the wiring is hacked up like that in the engine bay, it's probably going to be screwed up everywhere else too... That is a mess I would rather not sort out on anything, no matter how nice the rest of the car is.