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Re: whats the coldest temp you'd start your car at?
[Re: aarcuda]
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01/15/09 10:47 AM
01/15/09 10:47 AM
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MoparforLife
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ya, well i hope he has a block heater or some 0w30 weight oil in it
She left at 5:30 and it was -29. 10/30. Don't believe in synthetics or want to pay the price. In over 45 years of car ownership have yet to have an engine failier on any of our daily drivers and up till recently normally never run any oil lighter than 10/30. That is what is in the Dakota and it has 130,000 miles on it. Well hell so has the van got that for mileage. Van is in a unheated metal garage and the truck sits outside but is a block heater plugged in when it is below 0
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Re: whats the coldest temp you'd start your car at?
[Re: MoparforLife]
#189871
01/15/09 11:14 AM
01/15/09 11:14 AM
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69superbee383
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Coldest ever for me was my 73 340 Duster back in 1980. Temp here dropped to -3 F and I drove it to work thru the snow like any other day. Around here cold or snow is a severe event. To you guys up north what we called the "blizzard of 80" would have been a flurry and the temp would have been a thaw.
77 Macho Power Wagon LWB factory 440
70 Coronet 440 N code 3 speed
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Re: whats the coldest temp you'd start your car at?
[Re: 69superbee383]
#189873
01/15/09 11:46 AM
01/15/09 11:46 AM
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62maxwgn
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Coldest ever for me was my 73 340 Duster back in 1980. Temp here dropped to -3 F and I drove it to work thru the snow like any other day. Around here cold or snow is a severe event.
To you guys up north what we called the "blizzard of 80" would have been a flurry and the temp would have been a thaw.
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Re: whats the coldest temp you'd start your car at?
[Re: mkdart]
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01/18/09 04:07 AM
01/18/09 04:07 AM
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Posts: 4,576 Sarcoxie, MO, USA
MoPar Jamie
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I'm running 20w50 in both my '95 Dakota and my '81 D-250. The Dakota pops right off with no problems, its nearing 200k however and its a loose motor. The motor in the D-250 only has 28k on it so I'm considering switching back to 10w40.
I've had to drop oil in it in the mid 20s and yeah that 20w50 was pretty danged thick. Came out like goo out of the cold bottle. It also takes some time when its cold out to get the lifters pumped up.
I fired it off last week in mid-teens weather and it did okay once the oil got to pumping (took a few secs though). It did crank slowly though.
- MoPar Jamie
1972 Fury III 4dr 1986 D-150 LWB Royal SE
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