extreme cold temp starts.
Discussion
while browsing YouTube i stumbled across this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9I-8-gD7faA
Now the most i have ever started a car in is -8. Dose it not cause engine damage. Or at best, excess stress on engine components. Think i would try and get some heat in the engine bay before even trying a start up in temps like that. What does everyone else think.Is this no probs to a modern car or would you avoid a start up like this at all costs too ?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9I-8-gD7faA
Now the most i have ever started a car in is -8. Dose it not cause engine damage. Or at best, excess stress on engine components. Think i would try and get some heat in the engine bay before even trying a start up in temps like that. What does everyone else think.Is this no probs to a modern car or would you avoid a start up like this at all costs too ?
Havent had any problems like that in those temperatures. Sometimes it can get pretty freezing here in Sweden to. Normally cars (at least petrol cars) starts without problems, but gearboxes can be a bit slow until warmed up. Even my 924 started fine in -20C, and not to forget my R5 adn Clio ´00 which always started, even though it was -25C. Havent had and dont expect to have any problems with my current "new" car either. Mazda seems not to have thought about the cold though 
I spent six years in Russia and Kazakhstan and never had any issues starting the car or truck (1.2 Skoda Fabia and 4.0 Ford Explorer) up even when it was well below -30C.
Though we had a couple of diesel Ford Rangers in Russia and these were woeful, we had to keep them inside the plant at night or leave them running 24/7 as they would wax up and not start at all, even when the temperature was fairly warm (-10C).
The worst thing about the real cold weather is scraping the windscreen in the morning, the heater does nothing to clear the ice so it takes a good thirty minutes to clear the rock hard ice so you can see where you are going. That and the inside of the car freezing from your breath!
I never used a block heater as we had no way of powering them (though the Explorer had one fitted).
Though we had a couple of diesel Ford Rangers in Russia and these were woeful, we had to keep them inside the plant at night or leave them running 24/7 as they would wax up and not start at all, even when the temperature was fairly warm (-10C).
The worst thing about the real cold weather is scraping the windscreen in the morning, the heater does nothing to clear the ice so it takes a good thirty minutes to clear the rock hard ice so you can see where you are going. That and the inside of the car freezing from your breath!
I never used a block heater as we had no way of powering them (though the Explorer had one fitted).
bob1179 said:
I spent six years in Russia and Kazakhstan and never had any issues starting the car or truck (1.2 Skoda Fabia and 4.0 Ford Explorer) up even when it was well below -30C.
Though we had a couple of diesel Ford Rangers in Russia and these were woeful, we had to keep them inside the plant at night or leave them running 24/7 as they would wax up and not start at all, even when the temperature was fairly warm (-10C).
The worst thing about the real cold weather is scraping the windscreen in the morning, the heater does nothing to clear the ice so it takes a good thirty minutes to clear the rock hard ice so you can see where you are going. That and the inside of the car freezing from your breath!
I never used a block heater as we had no way of powering them (though the Explorer had one fitted).
The worse the quality of the diesel the worse will the cold starting be. Really really bad diesel is clogging at aroud -5 to -10. Good diesel will work even at -30. Its a matter of fuel cost. Mainland europe had really big trouble (was it this winter or last?) when the cold struck and there were summer diesel all over the place. Horrible for the truck buisness...Though we had a couple of diesel Ford Rangers in Russia and these were woeful, we had to keep them inside the plant at night or leave them running 24/7 as they would wax up and not start at all, even when the temperature was fairly warm (-10C).
The worst thing about the real cold weather is scraping the windscreen in the morning, the heater does nothing to clear the ice so it takes a good thirty minutes to clear the rock hard ice so you can see where you are going. That and the inside of the car freezing from your breath!
I never used a block heater as we had no way of powering them (though the Explorer had one fitted).
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