rhiebert

Date posted: 11/08/2005 11:29 pm  Subject: Below Zero Starting Stories From Hell

The weatherchannel showed the temperature was -7 out here the year I was born. I know global warming is alive and well but not that bad.
One winter long ago in the prairies, -40 didn't do the automatic tranny much good. It warmed up OK while idling but had to thrown a Hudson Bay blanket over the front to get home. If I had known about Amsoil then, it would have been fun.

 

xlll

Date posted: 11/26/2005 1:19 pm  Subject: I hear ya...

I'm from NC pretty much and moved to MN for 1yr and experience the great artic mid-west. I know it's a common practice to keep a battery charger/warmer on your battery. I'm sure there was more to it besides just a battery charger but I forgot it because I moved the hell out of MN after that winter, now back down in the 2 month winters of NC =D.

Good luck, if this doesnt help go to a forum in some winter-wonderland and the locals there should know what to do after generations of trying to help a car survive passed 100k. Between the frozen engine/battery water problem and the rust problem from the salt on the roads, I'd say you need all the luck and help you can get.