Two local drivers stack. Cold makes spring steel less forgiving at exactly the season when doors cycle hardest against stiff grease and frozen thresholds, and the statewide operator copy names the result directly: springs and cables failing in deep freezes and nor'easters are among the most common January calls in Massachusetts. On the coast, salt air spends the rest of the year thinning the coils, so the January snap is often the last cycle of a corroded spring rather than a healthy one. The practical answer is a fall inspection: a spring read for corrosion in October is a scheduled replacement, not a January emergency with the car trapped inside.
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