Emergency repair in West Jordan, Utah

The station serving West Jordan (Salt Lake City Intl AP, 18 km out) averages 17.4 freeze–thaw days in December, 18.0 in January and 16.7 in February — January is the peak. Each of those days is a morning cold enough to embrittle a fatigued spring and an afternoon warm enough to reload it.

What to do with the numbers: autumn is when West Jordan spring work is cheap and schedulable — the same job in January competes with everyone else's frozen morning.

Pay for tonight when the West Jordan garage cannot be secured — a door stuck open is an open house — or when the door hangs crooked or off-track overhead, or when a trapped car is truly needed before morning. On that last one, pull the red release first: disconnected, many doors lift by hand and the emergency evaporates.

The morning slot covers the rest at $50–150 less. A broken spring behind a closed door is going nowhere; a dead opener with the release pulled is a door you can operate by hand; dents wait indefinitely. In West Jordan winters, add the frozen-down door to this list: warm water frees the seal, and driving the opener against ice is how bottom sections get bent.

For context around West Jordan: Midvale runs 88.2 freeze–thaw cycles and 5–7 years of spring life; South Jordan runs 93.1 freeze–thaw cycles and 5–7 years of spring life; and Taylorsville runs 84.4 freeze–thaw cycles and 5–7 years of spring life.

Against that backdrop, West Jordan holds 90.5 cycles at 4,429 ft with a 1996 median build year — the specific inputs behind every figure above.