whats the coldest temp you have started your taco in

Ha! Damn, good luck with that...even thinking about how cold that would feel on my skin makes me feel cold.

 

How many of you reporting really cold temps have block heaters? I'm getting ready to move to Anchorage and not sure if I really need one or not. We never used them in upstate NY where I grew up.

 

I cant recall how cold it was this past jan. certainly start up no problem.. but sure creek and moan pulling out of the driveway. the shifting the gear was a choir.

 

-26F° was the coldest here thus past winter. Ill admit though, my truck parks in the garage. It was probably around -10° in there.

 

Low 20's last winter on Orcas Island. Had zero problems.

-40????? Alexander, that's amazing. How do you go about your daily routine with it that cold?

 

Coldest for me was probably right around -30* Fahrenheit.

 

I have one, always forgot to plug it in when it did get real cold over the winter, never seemed to phase the truck though, she always started right up.

 

-9 in my FJ, same engine and tranny (manual). The clutch pedal was a little tough.

 

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I think the coldest i've started in would have to be like 20*F or something like that. South FTMFW!

 

-45 C with wind chill it was -53 C

 

Mine has seen the teens and started right up. In nc we don't see much worse than that.

 

mine may have been in the mid 20's

Starting the tractor was a different story though. It was all like blub blub blurbble blubub blub when it fired

 

I'm curious of wind chill factor has any effect on the startup temperature. It's easily been much lower than that -40 in SD and ND before with wind chill, but I'm not sure how much that matters to an engine as much as to me out shoveling and scraping windows.

 

I think I've started this truck in as low as 50F. It was a bit scary to actually walk outside in my flip flops and bathing suit...

Previous tacoma I've gotten close to 0F tho...was a bit rough being a FL truck, but it did fine...

 

Wind chill doesn't affect machinery - just us humans. It will cool down a warm engine faster, but the final temp of the metal won't change.

 

About 30 degrees F.

 

-16F this winter.

 

Probably around 20 degrees. My crappy Walmart battery doesn't like starting in the cold. I keep a jump starter in my truck.

 

I didn't see any crazy low temps this past winter, but I bet the guys up in Fairbanks, Ak probably saw close to -50 a couple times..

 

like 3*F close to Buffalo. that was without the windchill. windchill it was close to like -5. that was back in mid/late jan of this year.

edit: started just fine! have started it in 108*f before. i hated that weekend it was way to hot for me. Did the dead mans float in the pool.