Coldest outside temp in your car

[cliffords]

I tender the benchmark. Today West Sussex. Car left unused for a week airport parking.
Old diesel and it did start.

[Rusty Old-Banger]

cliffords said:

I tender the benchmark. Today West Sussex. Car left unused for a week airport parking.

I had -14 showing on my Alfa back in 2011. So cold the site toilets froze. Car worked perfectly though.

A friend is in Finland at the moment. He sent me a pic of his ouside temp (while driving) at -31. fk that.

[vaud]

I had -17c in Yorkshire in 2010. Audi A6 started up no issue. I then saw the array of collisions from my house to the main road, turned around, went home and worked from the sofa.

[Mars]

Rusty Old-Banger said:

I had -14 showing on my Alfa back in 2011. So cold the site toilets froze. Car worked perfectly though.

A friend is in Finland at the moment. He sent me a pic of his ouside temp (while driving) at -31. fk that.

I saw -24 in Northern Sweden. It's great fun driving in the snow when it is sticky (no water). And if you stand outside in the sunshine, it doesn't immediately feel cold because the air is dry.

[K87]

-20C in 2010 near Knutsford in Cheshire, car was a diesel BMW. the following day it was +5C, 25 degree spread

[Mikebentley]

I saw -24 2011.

[POIDH]

A couple of times getting to -18 and -20*c indicated when living in Highlands and commuting up a rather empty glen....

[PovertyPrince]

Think the lowest i have seen is -8.

-4 today, which is not great since my thermostat sticks open when it drops below freezing.

Cannot get it in until the 26th, so shivering and no heat it is until then. I actually enjoy getting stuck at the lights at the moment, least then it heats up a bit.

Edited by PovertyPrince on Sunday 4th January 20:17

Edited by PovertyPrince on Sunday 4th January 20:19

[A.J.M]

-17 once. In 2010.
Had to run the glow plugs a couple of times but it fired up.
Was a tropical -6 today in comparison.

[fttm]

Saw -43C last year , bit easy living in Western Canada

[JoshSm]

-29. Only thing that really cared was the washer fluid.

At -25 going too fast in the car saw the thermostat dropping rapidly.

[vaud]

JoshSm said:

At -25 going too fast in the car saw the thermostat dropping rapidly.

Isnt that when you put some cardboard or foil between the radiator and the front grille?

[BunkMoreland]

cliffords said:

I tender the benchmark. Today West Sussex. Car left unused for a week airport parking.
Old diesel and it did start.

But it wasn't -14 in Crawley today. No matter how long the car had been parked!

We cant count incorrect readings as proof!

[Muppet007]

Cumbria a couple of years ago

[cliffords]

BunkMoreland said:

cliffords said:

I tender the benchmark. Today West Sussex. Car left unused for a week airport parking.
Old diesel and it did start.

But it wasn't -14 in Crawley today. No matter how long the car had been parked!

We cant count incorrect readings as proof!

Yet all the other readings provided by thread contributor's appear to have no photographic images as proof . All inadmissable I suggest

This with the exception of Muppet who has given admissable evidence. And I am still winning!

Edited by cliffords on Sunday 4th January 21:30

[vaud]

From the web (I think my iphone was out of battery)

Winter 2010 in Yorkshire was exceptionally cold. Record Lows: Topcliffe, North Yorkshire, hit -19°C, a new record for Yorkshire, with other areas seeing similar extreme cold, such as -17°C at Tollerton.

[JoshSm]

vaud said:

JoshSm said:

At -25 going too fast in the car saw the thermostat dropping rapidly.

Isnt that when you put some cardboard or foil between the radiator and the front grille?

Well it was the difference between 240kph & 160 so easier to just slow down a little.

[untakenname]

Nowhere near the numbers mentioned above, but this morning the cold start was super noisy and the coldest temperature I've seen in London for a long time.

Edited by untakenname on Sunday 4th January 21:59

[budgie smuggler]

-20 in France. We were in a petrol focus, the battery was quite old but it got going after a few turns of the key.

Only problem was we got stuck in traffic for 6 hours after someone crashed on the motorway, and we couldn't keep heat in the engine. The car gradually got colder and colder and being a stupid 20 year old at the time, I had zero blankets or anything useful so unsurprisingly it was chuffing cold.

[Pica-Pica]

I guess in an environment chamber does not count?