What’s the lowest temperature reading your car has reported?

[TeaVR]

How low, where (UK only) and when

Today, Cairngorms, -15,5C

[underwhelmist]

-45C I think. This was in my Alfa Romeo in early summer. It started behaving itself after I disconnected the big multi-plug to the passenger door and gave it a good squirt of contact cleaner.

One for the "They all do that, sir" file.

[Turkish91]

Swiftly followed by a bout of Pneumonia and a Christmas spent on Penicillin!

Edit - Just read the UK only bit… oops!
Sweden December 2018

[ThunderSpook]

Are we talking recently?

Hampshire, -1

We haven’t even had any drizzle or sleet, let alone snow. There wasn’t even a frost this morning.

[Numpty with honours]

I was living in the middle of Kent around 2010 and one morning I woke to see minus 15

[soad]

-4 this morning.

[5s Alive]

Today on the A703 into Edinburgh just past Eddleston. -13°C.

[Don Roque]

By comparison the lowest I've seen is a pretty balmy -5.5°c in Northumberland.

Edit, actually I've since seen -7, which is cold enough for me.

Edited by Don Roque on Tuesday 13th December 01:57

[Reginald Molehusband]

I don't suppose many of you lot were around when we Salopians woke up to -26C in 1982.

[shambolic]

I had -23.5 in my van in the highlands heading to Oban a few years back.

[Fusion777]

Remember seeing -14 in rural Nottinghamshire in the “great freeze” of 09/10.

[LivLL]

Reginald Molehusband said:

I don't suppose many of you lot were around when we Salopians woke up to -26C in 1982.

Which car had temp display in 1982?

[wibble cb]

I have seen -30 on the car before now, it was so cold that the radio shut down and refused to come back till we got the interior temp warmer (gotta love Canadian winters).

[cobra kid]

Going the opposite way, my MK5 Golf once gave me a temperature of +52 Deg C in balmy Worksop as I left work. That soon corrected itself thankfully.

[AC43]

Where I live, NW London, -3 this week.

The lowest I've ever seen in a car was -20 on the A701 between Edinburgh and Moffat back in the mid 90's. 94 or 95 IIRC.

[BrickCounter]

-15.5 about 2010 as I drove through the dip on the M4 before you rise up to the Bath junction.

I guess the cold air must of been sitting in the hollow for it to get that cold.

[AndySheff]

Not UK, but Sweden. -37.

[CraigyMc]

Wherein a thread proves that many people never read the original post.

[ShredderXLE]

-13 on the A10 towards Royston.

It was in the 2009 / 2010 freeze. Have the photo on an old phone somewhere, will try and dig it out.

[Zetec-S]

-6 driving across Salisbury Plain at 4am last Saturday