Block heater?

Thanks.

 

Up to you. I typically wait until it gets to -20 or below. All the cars we have had start and run fine until it starts getting colder than that. Of course there is a good chance my RA will be garaged this winter, that will be nice.

 

Thanks alot.

 

I was thinking about getting the block heater for my RA, and I'd probably plug it in whenever it got below 0*F/-17*C.

 

Oh yeah, the -20 thing is in celcius. That's about -5F.

 

good god... if it gets below 20 or 15 here we break records... lol

 

I've seen wind chills of -70*F here in WI. Usually only gets down to -40* or so with the wind chill, though. Wind chill doesn't affect cars, but only 10 or 15 degrees of that is WC.


Time to turn my thermostat up a couple degrees. <brrrr> I'm not ready for winter yet.

 

Our coldest day last winter was -59C with the windchill. Without windchill it was
-44C. I spent 3 minutes outside trying to take the battery out of my old car, I left the hood up and dropped the wrench in the snow (frozen) and ran inside, it was ridiculous.
Then I bet there's the southerners here who can't even fathom such temperatures as -59C.
When we started our truck, the PS pump was buzzing like crazy. No car ever got completely warmed up (about 1/4 way on the temp. gauge was as warm as our truck ever got).
A car starting in -44C is crazy enough.

 

the garage idea is nice...thats what im hoping for

 

I was thinkin the same thing ralliart86. I tossed around the idea of getting the block heater because our winters can get a little rough here in Ohio (I'm in the snow belt). But after seeing the temperatures these guys are talking about before they consider the heater I'm thinking I'd be wasting my time and money using it for our woosy winters.