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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.