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My car was low on gasoline, so I stopped by the filling station. When I pushed on the little door covering the gasoline refilling thingy – I hope I didn’t get too technical! – it wouldn’t open. The dang thing was frozen shut, thanks to an earlier freezing rain.
I had this happen one other time and found running it through the car wash did the trick to make it possible to open it.
I drove to one car wash, then the other, only to find both closed because of the below freezing weather before today and predicted to continue at least till next week.
Not cool! My car’s information screen indicated I had enough gasoline to go 40 miles/ 64.3 kilometers! No way that would get me through till warm weather!
Maybe I could fill a large container with hot water and free it up, I thought. That’s what I did.
After pouring hot water on the little door, I tried to open it. No luck!!
I drove to a local fast food restaurant and returned home with my lunch. When I got out of the car, I took a look at my frozen lirtle door, pushed on it, and it opened!
I left it open and drove back to a filling station to top off my gasoline tank while I knew I could.
I put that as the priority over eating my lunch hot, as you might guess. I could eat it, cold, after I got home from filling my car’s nearly empty tank.
Lunch wasn’t as tasty cold, but running out of gasoline is not an option. Also, I learned a jug of hot water will free the little door up, which is $10 cheaper than the cheapest car wash option.
What kind of weather are you having that freezes the gas hatch?! Ugh!
Subzero after a rain that turned to snow. It’s rare weather, but this happened at night.
It amazes me how you people survive it.
Freezing doors are areal problem. Sometimes the driver’s door gets frozen or the lock gets frozen. If it is the lock, a little WD-40 or silicone spray works.
That is fun when it happens! I had it happen when I was headed to dialysis. I managed to get in through the back door and squeezing into the driver’s seat.
You would think that they could put a gasket or something around that door to keep it from freezing
It’s a German engineered car that was assembled in Puebla, Mexico. Neither place experiences cold like I do here. In this instance, it rained, then froze during the night. That’s an uncommon occurrence.
Love Andy’s expression on the last photo! It say to me; “Now why did you do that, Doug? Hehehe!
LOL! Something like that, eh?
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Yes!
Winter gets so complicated!
Absolutely. Everything takes longer and is harder to do. It’s the time of year things fail
No fun for anyone, Doug. I’m glad you surmounted it
Barely!
Have You ever pee’d on your car to thaw something out ❓ I am from the land of the ice & snow…go figure 🐾
No, but that would be a last resort I suppose.
In Minnesota when the temp doesn’t come above 0° for 2 week we never let the tank get below ¾ and always put in a bottle of gas line deicer. 12 oz of Moonshine works in a pinch 🌬
P.S.Don’t go to the car wash when its cold (waster freezes) everything ❗️
The weather here had been mild till this past week.
Good advice!
Yikes, that was a close one! Glad you got it sorted! Adorable, snoozy Andy!
Too close. Everything goes to hell in cold weather! A water main on my land burst two days ago, and I was without water for a few hours till it was fixed
Dang! Yeah I hate the cold weather too. Even here, we’re getting it
It was -3°c when I got up this morning, Brrr! Bet there’s plenty of folk worse off.
Ugh! You are getting some really typically nasty weather there this year. That’s typical weather here in the USA’s Great Plains region.
It almost makes me glad I’m housebound, Doug. Well, flatbound. Hehe!
I’ll look up the Great Plains Region later.
Cheers.
It’s Texas up to Alberta, basically the central part of the US and part of Canada.
I was thinking when I did the search, that this be where the buffalo roam.
The article said that sadly, the buffalo was hunted to near extinction in the 19th century.
The photos were great. You could the UK in there… well, dozens of times. Hehe!
Cheers.
Yes, where I live was home to hundreds of thousands of bison in historic times. There are ranchers raising bison, as well as governments on public lands.
Fings ain’t wot they used to be, I fear, mate.
That’s a fact, eh?!
Nasty weather!