STRASSE KRIEGER
 Number of posts: 202
Location: BURY
Drives: MK3 GOLF
Registration date: 2009-06-10
 | | Subject: mk3 golf frozen door please help lol Sun Nov 28 2010, 17:59 | |
| er bit of an issue lol gonna sound stupid but when your on early's and start at 5:30 this is a right f*cker lol in the mornings i cant get my door open cos the internals seem frozen the key turns and the central locking motor goes then it reverses and locks again any ideas as i know this week im gonna be climbing through from the back lol Any ideas where to start??? will be of great help  cheers Gal |
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duxdubber
Number of posts: 55
Age: 34
Location: duxford
Drives: mk2 golf gti 16v and discovery 3
Registration date: 2010-08-20
| | Subject: Re: mk3 golf frozen door please help lol Sun Nov 28 2010, 19:47 | |
| Can't help you with this one I'm afraid. Not having much luck with this cold weather are you mate?  |
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tomstanforster
Number of posts: 1279
Age: 27
Location: Maaaarch
Drives: Mk1 Karmann cabby,Mk1 caddy,B3 waggon,2011 caddy van
Registration date: 2009-10-19
| | Subject: Re: mk3 golf frozen door please help lol Sun Nov 28 2010, 20:56 | |
| vasaline on the rubbers and wd40 in the lock worked for me with the mk3 last year |
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LOWANDSLOW
Number of posts: 855
Age: 34
Location: WISBECH
Drives: Mk2 golf 8v
Registration date: 2010-04-11
| | Subject: Re: mk3 golf frozen door please help lol Sun Nov 28 2010, 23:04 | |
| been happing to me too mate a kettle of warm water has been doing the trick !! |
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rp24k
Number of posts: 510
Age: 30
Location: diss
Drives: Bora, 2011 t5, 74 bay, 78 bay and Audi A1 S-line tdi
Registration date: 2009-12-05
| | Subject: . Mon Nov 29 2010, 20:29 | |
| standard issue on the mk3 i'm affraid. they have very poor seals. all my old mk3's froze in the winter. ice on the inside of the screen, frozen door locks, doors frozen shut.
last year i just left mine unlocked!!!
but wd40 in the looks and put plenty of de icer over the doors and seals the night before |
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guy
Moderator
Number of posts: 1666
Age: 44
Location: Littleport
Drives: MK 1, 2, 2, 3, 4, 4, T5
Registration date: 2009-09-15
| | Subject: Re: mk3 golf frozen door please help lol Wed Dec 01 2010, 18:42 | |
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Kettle and loads of wd and spray grease after.
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