Last year my filler cap became frozen shut while filling the car today reminded me to dry the cover and inside then a good shot of silicon spray on cover and inner edge problem solved.

Yes, petrol vapours they are cheeky little blighters chasing any oil/greases out!

 

I've just been out to my daughter's dreaded late 2009 Ibiza to try to retrieve its spare coil from the boot, unfortunately I have the central locking fuse out while chasing a draining battery issue - and unfortunately that car has been lying freezing out of sunlight for two days - so any moisture in the door lock is solid - no joy!

 

Might get around to stuffing something in its locking petrol cap like you have now that you have brought the subject up!

Skoda CZ advertise the Simply Clever stuff,  Ice Scraper in the Filler Flap, and no motoring journalist ever mentions the Filler Flaps freeze closed on some models.

Quite amazing because the Czech Republic can be a pretty cold and icy place, but some how their testing must miss this winter issues.

Just to clarify what happened if you open the filler door cover on the car you will see on the car there is a small rim maybes 3/4 mills wide on the inside ledge that the cover shuts against. Water had collected and instead of draining away had frozen the door shut. Just been out today and cleaned all the surfaces and hinges and given them all a silicon spray. Joe

Skoda CZ advertise the Simply Clever stuff,  Ice Scraper in the Filler Flap, and no motoring journalist ever mentions the Filler Flaps freeze closed on some models.

Quite amazing because the Czech Republic can be a pretty cold and icy place, but some how their testing must miss this winter issues.

Tried the ice scraper last winter not impressed dug out my old one with a handle much easier/quicker to use Joe

Skoda CZ advertise the Simply Clever stuff,  Ice Scraper in the Filler Flap, and no motoring journalist ever mentions the Filler Flaps freeze closed on some models.

Quite amazing because the Czech Republic can be a pretty cold and icy place, but some how their testing must miss this winter issues.

When having temps below zero over a longer period of time humidity isnt a problem. Cold will dry out any moist.

But I guess most of you pommies havent got much experience in that matter.

No some areas like where some of us are have had temps around freezing day and night in the last week, but Britain being an island nation does mean that there are often thaws in daytime and a freeze at night, so lots of moisture, and also hoar frosts.

 

PS

Pommies were usually English as called by those in Australia or NZ, but i suppose it could include British People, 

not a very nice term though to call Scots.

Edited 25 November, 20169 yr by Offski

Aye quite right Offski, there is an expats website that "poms" use in Oz which my daughter now in KL (lived/worked in Perth for a year) checks up on and she calls it "whinging poms" and it is mainly ex England people complaining about the heat or nasty beasties - did these people not read up on things before they tried to escape their past by moving to Oz?

 

Just sent my daughter in KL a picture of her Ibiza with its winter covering of frost, she seemed impressed by the large ice crystals growing on it!

Edited 25 November, 20169 yr by rum4mo

http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/418260-simply-clever-ice-scraper

Another owners finds that Skoda's cold weather testing is not up to much.

 

(Some will remember the Hillman Imp and the legend of them driving it all around the world and driving it for days and nights with the engine never turned off in testing.

Sadly when used as a daily driver around Glasgow the failings were all there, starting issues, water pump and head issues, but they were a car ahead of their time.

Just not tested in the way or the environment they were going to be purchased to be driven in.)

Edited 29 November, 20169 yr by Offski

http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/418260-simply-clever-ice-scraper

Another owners finds that Skoda's cold weather testing is not up to much.

 

(Some will remember the Hillman Imp and the legend of them driving it all around the world and driving it for days and nights with the engine never turned off in testing.

Sadly when used as a daily driver around Glasgow the failings were all there, starting issues, water pump and head issues, but they were a car ahead of their time.

Just not tested in the way or the environment they were going to be purchased to be driven in.)

Ah, but to be fair to the Imp's engine, it was a Coventry Climax fire pump engine. Designed for high load operation over a period of time...possibly protacted periods. It was never intended for start/stop use. Fine engine for it's intended duty type. Some times car test regimes amaze me. For years Audi didn't test cars in the UK...a very large market for them...and, as a result, ride quality was back-breakingly awful...but wonderful on Autobahns and European E-routes. Lots of high-tech and no common sense or, as my Mum would have said; "Fur coat and no knickers". (Actually meant to be used to denote a lady trying to act way beyond her station in life, but you get the idea.