it's annoying for sure. Some nights I'll go out and open the door and close it again before I go to bed, it helps. It's most troublesome in spring and fall or weird transitional points when the weather goes freezing overnight. Thankfully once it gets below freezing stays below freezing, it stays not a problem for most of the winter.
I haven't had much luck with aquapel or other glass treatments. Maybe I didn't do it right. It sticks at the belt line where the window goes into door. If it's really bad, sliding a credit card between the glass and the door breaks it free.
I never found anything that worked really well.
My best bet was to have oem remote start installed.
Its been discussed quite a few times, hopefully someone else has an idea.
I tried everything from Gummi Pflege to keeping deicer with me everywhere.
Ended up buying a winter beater.
Thanks…I filled a spray bottle with de-icer washer fluid…kind of a pain, when I’m running late!
I wish my auto start fired the fan at full blast defrost..I often forget to crank the fan when I shut the car down at the end of the day.
Other cars I had did this automatically.
I use a credit card or rewards card to separate the moulding from the window, slide it in and work it from the rear to front. Be careful not to cause damage to the window felt
I found keeping the window glass clean especially where it contacts the weather stripping helped. And wipe down the weather stripping with a clean damp cloth. The weather stripping the glass touches, but also the door touches and even the hood and trunk weather stripping.
Then when the weather stripping is clean and dry apply some Gummi Pflege which helps the weather stripping from sticking.
I live in new york and often have windows and doors icing closed in the winter due to the glass being prevented from dropping. Even when I would be able to pop the doors open, the windows would fail to drop and the door wouldn't close properly to drive or would damage the rubber seals around the window. I have tried silicone sprays and de-icers, credit card to separate the window, car covers, but the only one that works well is a remote starter. The car would be unusable in the winter without it. (I also keep 4 blizzak snow tires mounted on separate rims to be used in the winter for added traction.)
With another car had the door glass fail to drop when I opened the door in icy conditions. What I did was once in the car I left the door ajar and started the engine. Then I wiggled the glass and pushed the down button at the same time. The ice broke free -- the window appeared to be stuck from ice at where the glass entered the door -- and the glass dropped. Once the window moved with the button then it was free and went up when I closed the door.
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