Side doors freezing shut on Vito

kbell

Have the van nearly 2 years and only this week has this started.
Front, passenger and tailgate are fine.
Takes ages to thaw out, or about 10 mins after going around with kettle!

Any ideas??

alo1587

Take all the rubbers off the frames on a frosty night:D

peasant

Ask for rubber treatment / seal spray in your local motor factors and grease/treat the seals with that.

Constantly wetting the seals with the kettle only makes it worse btw, as some moisture is retained only to freeze again.

Type 17

Dry the rubbers with a paper towel the night before (as mentioned, you're probably making the problem worse as the kettle-water from the morning is freezing at night)

Stevie Dakota

Peasant is right. There are special products just for this. BMW do one called Gummi Pflege that is perfect.

http://forums.tdiclub.com/showthread.php?t=66443&highlight=gummi*

kbell

Thanks everybody.
Popped out there to give the seals a wipe and the doors are frozen shut already:pac:

I'll head to the motor factors tomorrow..

Voodoomelon

If you can't get your hands on grease, silicon oil spray from Atlantic Homecare or Woodies will do the trick. Just spray it onto the seals.