I'm worried about my car- it's cold

[HEyHEY]

It's minues thirty wich in your world is about minus 22 I think.. I have block heater but no extension cord. Should I worry about my block cracking?

SOrry minus 22f

[Pobeka]

1. Back in '82 my old chevette survived many -20 farenheit nights

For what it's worth...

[jimbo fett]

2. No, worry about your crack blocking!

Don't ask me. I don't know what the hell that means.

It just sounded funny.

[HEyHEY]

4. It means all the fluids in your car freeze

and expand and crack your engine...then you'll be fucked

[revcarol]

3. Get an extension cord, QUICK.

Speaking from experience of one who had a motor home block cracked, in Alaska. Plenty of anti-freeze, but not plugged in.

Beg, borrow or steal a heavy duty extension cord.

[Exultant Democracy]

5. wow, that is way to cold for human life

what are you people thinking living that far north.

[Intelsucks]

6. I almost had to turn on the A/C yesterday. Talk about extremes!

n/t

[HEyHEY]

7. hey I'm not far from the US canada border!

[Exultant Democracy]

13. I used to have a house up near the border

and it got cold as hell in the winter. New Haven never gets that cold because of the sound, but I want to head as far south as I can get someday.

[ironflange]

14. Do you mean. . .

If it were noisier here it wouldn't be so cold?

:evilgrin:

[ironflange]

8. I've never heard of a block cracking in Alberta

I suppose it could happen if you just have plain water in the rad, tho. Probably the worst thing that could happen is that you turn the key and get <click>. I'm lucky, I have one car in the garage, and my van starts no matter how cold it is. In fact, I just learned the van's block heater hasn't been working for several years now. Built Ford Tough, before they decided to switch to making crappy cars.

Gotten lucky with the Mountie yet?

[HEyHEY]

10. The Dang Mountie is spoken for!

Drat!

Well I don't have just plain water. It's about a 60/40 antifreeze I split think.

[ironflange]

11. You should be OK

But get a cord soon, a Vancouver car prolly won't like the cold very much. Actually, I think it's the oil getting hard that makes it hard to start when it's cold. (If that's not true, I'm sure gonna hear about it) I used to drive a Bug around in the winter, scraper in hand, and you still needed to plug them in despite being air-cooled. It was the slushy oil that got you.

Consider yourself lucky, you're the first place to get the chinooks. One night you'll go to bed with it -30, only to wake up almost in shirtsleeve weather.

[roguevalley]

9. I would get one. I have had cars freeze up here at that level. It sort

of depends on the car and how much antifreeze it has.
Better safe than sorry.

RV, who has faced -56 degrees and no car starting.

[pansypoo53219]

12. i never had any trouble

with my 72/73' deltas. half the time i just went out to start it at least once a day and let it run a bit. too lazy to shovel the damn thing out though. sigh. i hope i didn't loose my magic touch since i had to sell my sweat pea.