it's winter and it's cold outside one of
the most common calls we have this time
of the year is people calling because
their car door locks are frozen the most
common reason for this is they wash the
car the night before most times there's
just a little bit of water inside the
door lock common lock the icer works
really really well however if you are at
home or on the road and you don't have
lock di sir what do you do
boiling water is the worst thing you can
do because a lot of nowadays a lot of
cars they have a lot of plastic parts
inside soft rubber you can wreck the
seals some cars are using hydraulics
electronics are a lot of lectrons
hanging off the back of the lock
cylinder so don't use boiling water
that's number one the other thing what
you can do the simple way is just hold
the key in your hand keep on putting it
in another lock if you have wd-40 around
the house it's not the best but it works
if you can run an extension cord out
your car run a a hairdryer works really
really well
you can also heat up the key just just
gently with a lighter heat up the key
don't heat it up really really hot
because inside that lock cylinder some
of them have a lot of plastic parts so
you just want to get it just slightly
warm to the touch and and you may have
to do this 10 20 30 times if you don't
have locked a sir if you have locked the
icer I'll show you a quick little way of
doing it and that's the the best they
have a lot of times lock gas or those
inside the car if you do have to wash
your car on the same on a cold day I
just get locked the icer and spray it
the locks that should do the trick if
your door is really really frozen then
you have to apply heat to the entire
door to get it open so again take a look
at this short little clip and I'll show
you how to put it put some locked yessir
in your car so here we have a nice cold
snowy day and
again don't pour water on this pot with
boiling hot water just make it more
difficult you have to get the dust cover
out of the way so just put your key in
there and just spray if you have lock
gazers the best you can get by with
wd-40 don't put any oil in there boiling
water will get to give you a longer more
trouble down the road so again get that
little dust cover out of the way you use
your key I heat it up keep the key up
with your hand put it back in put it
back in you could use a lighter gotta be
careful
modern locks nowadays car locks they're
basically all plastic so you have to be
very very careful trying to get open if
you have a hair dryer and a long
extension cord use that we actually use
a 12-volt hair dryer that we put on the
lock would lock the icer sometimes we
have to do the whole door because it's
frozen in conclusion don't use boiling
water they'll cost you hundreds of
dollars on some cars to fix the next day
so try to use lock the icer follow the
common points i've said - usually
there's just a little bit of water in
your car car lock so it's not that
difficult to get it cleaned out either
with a little bit of heat or for
Sherlock de-icers about the way to go
okay this is Terry Williams for mr.
locksmith saying thank you