Re: Winter morning Audi blues

[Paul Nicholson <paul@eisusa.com>]

At 12:34 -0500 2/5/99, spokes@mail.the-wire.com wrote:

Or you could use a liquid that w'ont freeze. A bit of alcohol would do the
trick. Heat the bottle, with the lid loose in a pan of boiled water. Don't
burn your house down doing it though. If you want to be really
conservative, you can heat the water on the stove and turn the flames off
when you put the bottle in the pan. Repeat the cycle a few times to bring
it up to temp. Pour the hot alcohol on the lock.

Paul

>>Anyone got a solution to my winter morning blues problem.
>>
>>If there is a touch of ice my '94 2.6 Coupe just wont let me in. Neither
>>of the
>>doors will open, nor will the boot.  A little boiling water on the door lock
>>solves the problem but then i am in a catch 22....The next morning yesterdays
>>boiling water is todays ice.