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From: preston@fortune.UUCP (Carol Preston)
Newsgroups: net.auto
Subject: Re: Baby it's cold outside
Message-ID: <4922@fortune.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 26-Jan-85 18:41:55 EST
Article-I.D.: fortune.4922
Posted: Sat Jan 26 18:41:55 1985
Date-Received: Mon, 28-Jan-85 02:11:48 EST
References: <2049@pegasus.UUCP> <105@ihlpm.UUCP>
Reply-To: preston@fortune.UUCP (Carol preston)
Organization: Fortune Systems, Redwood City, CA
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Summary: 

In article <105@ihlpm.UUCP> rfish@ihlpm.UUCP (Bob Fishell) writes:
>
>...leading me to conclude that the best solution to a car
>that won't start in winter is to get rid of the piece
>of junk and buy something that does start.  It doesn't
>have to be new or foreign, either.  I once had a '62
>BelAir with 130K on it that'd start at -17, which was
>about as cold as it ever got in Columbus, Ohio.  However,
>GM doesn't make the 283 any more (pity), so a Honda is
>probably a good bet.

Last winter I went on a trip and left my '82 Mazda 626 parked in
my apartment parking lot a week in Michigan.  The temperature never
got above 10 degrees, and the morning I tried to start my car it
was -30.  After I found my car under all the snow, I found the lock 
and sprayed that stuff in it to unlock the door.  I turned on the 
headlights to get some 'juice' flowing, but it still didn't start.
Maybe the sun warmed it up enough, because eventually it started.
About an hour later, while I was driving down the road, all of my door 
locks popped up and scared the hell out of me.  In my car, when you
unlock the driver's door all of the other doors unlock. So, if you have
anything on your car that is suppose to happen automatically when you
turn on you car, beware.  Especially anything motor-driven.

BTW, watch out when you go over bumps.  I was once in a BelAir and
the car started when the temperature (not windchill) was at -50.  We
took off down the road, went over some train tracks, hit bottom and 
shattered something.  Don't ask me what, not too many people want to 
look at the bottom of a car at 50 below.


-- 
Carol Preston
{hpda, ihnp4, allegra, ucbvax|dual}!fortune!preston
(415) 594-2891
Fortune Systems, 101 Twin Dolphin Pkwy, Redwood Shores, CA 94065