Frozen Convertible

[Julietbravo]

I have a convertible with frameless doors. Every time I open a door, the window drops slightly as you pull the handle, and whenever you close a door the door closes and then the window rises to seal the glass against the rubber. My problem is that, during this cold snap, the glass freezes to the rubber surround. Being fairly mechanically sympathetic, I'm not sure that tugging the door open is doing the mechanism or the seal any good. I don't want to lubricate the strip because anything on the rubber gets on the glass, and then smeared on the glass when the window goes up and down.

My solution is to put a small (under office desk style) fan heater in the car with an extension cable running into the garage. When I get up in the morning I flick the switch in the garage and the car defrosts whilst I'm in the shower. It's a sub optimal solution - is there a better way? My garage is full, so that's out, and I don't want to use a car cover - dragging it off in the morning, covered in snow and ice, folding, storing etc etc.

What does everyone else do?

[Julietbravo]

Big E 118 said:

This is the stuff:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Gummi-Pflege-Rubber-Stick...

Thank you. I live on the Dutch/German/Belgian border so I'll wander into Heutz tonight and see if they have any.

[Julietbravo]

Cupramax said:

akirk said:

Julietbravo said:

What does everyone else do?

own a non-convertible for cold days

Own a convertible and a garage that's not full of junk

I know, I know. When you live in the Netherlands, your garage fills up with bikes quickly. I mean, they cycle everywhere. The local VW dealer has courtesy bikes; cycle paths cut across roads where cars have to give way and there aren't many roads without cycle paths - even bike lights at traffic lights. No one gets annoyed or cross, and in the 18 months I have been here I haven't seen a bit of road rage, just courteous driving. Whenever people come to stay we cycle to the pub, which means at least 8 bikes are required (2x families of 4) - at least they are cheap, 25-50 Euros gets a serviceable 'granny bike'), plus a couple of road bikes and MTB complete the set. Hence the full garage.