How cold
01-08-2010, 01:22 PM
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mine has been -45 celsius last year and this year -39 so far.
I quoted this one because if you do not plug in bellow -20 celsius jeep will not start. as a side note my windshield washer reservoir has been replaced twice for cracking in cold weather
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01-08-2010, 01:24 PM
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I tend to disagree, windchill is the fact that the wind is removing heat from an object at a rate that makes it seem like it is much colder. If you want evidence that windchill affects vehicles come north and see how many vehicles have winter fronts covering the radiator. The cold air moving through the rad doesn't allow it to warm up and at high way speed that is a huge windchill.
I've never had to block the rad on any well-maintained vehicle I've owned that had a properly working thermistat. Now when I lived in a poor farming comunity with old beaters as the norm it was quite common.
01-08-2010, 01:24 PM
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01-08-2010, 01:39 PM
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I don't know where my block heater plug is - if I have one.
01-08-2010, 06:19 PM
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Oh come on........-20C? What's that....around -4F, and your JK wont start??? Give me a break. Hell we don't even plug in till it's around -10F. In fact last year for some reason my timer came unplugged or something so the block heater wasn't working and I had to leave. If I recall it was -30F and it still started. If your JK won't start at -4F.....you've got a problem.
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