cold weather versus the ls

[Telco]

What makes me nervous is finding parts for our cars as they age. I love my LS and want to keep it many years, but what will the parts availability be in five years from now? This past week I did some work on it after taking it apart for an IPOD install. I had to fix several broken plastic parts, namely the mounting tabs that hold the emergency brake and a tab that houses the set up buttons on the upper console. Looking down into the shifter assembly, I see all that plastic and well, it just makes me nervous.

I'll tell you EXACTLY what it will be like. LS fans with the room to store will buy any LS they can lay their hands on, and will start a side business selling parts. For people who can't do this, every failure will become a nationwide scavenger hunt. For things like the COPs, someone will come up with a kit to sell to simply retrofit coils off something else. For parts that can't be retrofitted, someone will start refurbishing used parts. I know this because I've been there, done that. Before the LS, I had a Buick Reatta, a car which only 20K total were made. 5000 a year over 4 years, last made in 1991. After dealing with that, I fully intend to sell my LS before it becomes known as a car you can't get parts for. It might be another year because this year I want to deal with my housing situation (sold my house in Jan, and have land to build on) without any distractions, but it'll be gone before much longer.

 

[StarPower]

Also during the cold days, messing with the sunroof can result in broken plastic sliders on the rails, ask me how I know this!

Messing with the sunroof on snowy days is also a bad idea. I bought my car the day after a 4" snowfall. Before I paid for it, I wanted to spend some time testing all of the features to make sure nothing was broken. I wasn't thinking about the fact that there was 4" of snow on top of the car when I tested the sunroof. It's a good thing that everything worked, since I would have felt really bad not buying it after dumping 4" of snow into the cabin.

 

[RigsLS]

I bought mine just toward the end of the winter season two years ago and also was playing with the buttons.
It was the holding down of the unlock on the FAB that screwed me over, windows started to come down as the sun roof made a horrible sound.
There was ice build up in there somewhere, somehow and sure enough it bent and snapped the guide rail plastic retainers on both sides.

Live and learn, nice option on the FOB key but didn't really need to use it on such a frosty day. I had been messing with the sunroof alone
earlier in that day, so something must have gotten into the tracks and froze up a bit.

~ trust me, won't ever happen again!

 

[SoulSoak]

I bought mine just toward the end of the winter season two years ago and also was playing with the buttons.
It was the holding down of the unlock on the FAB that screwed me over, windows started to come down as the sun roof made a horrible sound.
There was ice build up in there somewhere, somehow and sure enough it bent and snapped the guide rail plastic retainers on both sides.

Live and learn, nice option on the FOB key but didn't really need to use it on such a frosty day. I had been messing with the sunroof alone
earlier in that day, so something must have gotten into the tracks and froze up a bit.

~ trust me, won't ever happen again!

Lol someone with worse luck than me

 

[Jack Flash]

Who says this car doesn't start/run well in cold weather This was 2 days ago, and, I took
the pic 10 min too late. It was actually -29* C when I started it. Sorry for the pic, it showed
up sideways.

 

[1LoudLS]

running in cold, no problem at all but once it gets below 0, then she cranks a wee bit slow...

 

[Rancor Keeper]

Oh yeah, I had the door handle stick once. That sucks too.

Mine did that 3 or 4 times last winter in Boston. My assumption was extreme cold & lots of snow that always needed to get cleaned of the car meant there was some ice building up somewhere in the driver side door, but it didn't seem to help if the car was warmed up because it always took a day or two before it worked again, regardless of how much I drove it or how "warm" it got outside.

Anyone know what was causing that?

 

[JMT03LSV8]

Mine did that 3 or 4 times last winter in Boston. My assumption was extreme cold & lots of snow that always needed to get cleaned of the car meant there was some ice building up somewhere in the driver side door, but it didn't seem to help if the car was warmed up because it always took a day or two before it worked again, regardless of how much I drove it or how "warm" it got outside.

Anyone know what was causing that?

Mine did that a couple weeks ago. I sprayed the latching mechanism with PB blaster and it's been fine ever since.