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Samurai Vehicular Lord Rick
Location: northeastern New York Total Likes: 1900 likes
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| | | Re: Cold (as fuck) start < Reply # 1 on 1/4/2018 6:46 AM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Posted by Mickael Hey! I've had this issue where my car wouldn't start one morning. It was -27F outside. I could hear the starter turning but no ignition. It's a 2012 Altima. Battery has been changed last year, spark plugs changed in November, running fresh 5W30. My guess is that the fuel was condensing on the cylinder walls, or the oil was too vicous. It warmed up to 5F later in the afternoon and the car started just fine. I'm thinking about adding a block heater. Any suggestions on brand/model/features? Also, would 0W oil really make a difference?
| if you don't have a block heater, you can kind of make a ghetto one. This was something my mom's ex-boyfriend from years ago showed me. He had a very cold-blooded Plymouth Duster (76 I think?) with a slant six... hated the cold. So he takes this extension cord, plugs a light bulb adapter on to it with a bulb and lets it sit down on the start, you know, down in the engine bay all night. Every morning, it started. another friend of mine used to put an old hot plate on the ground under his engine... rural people come up with the weirdest solutions.
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| shadowedsmile
Location: Northwestern Ontario Gender: Female Total Likes: 157 likes
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| | | Re: Cold (as fuck) start < Reply # 9 on 1/6/2018 10:14 PM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Posted by Samurai
the Cruze has started no problem, but I too have an o-ring issue on the oil cooler... it just dribbles enough where I get that burning oil smell that drives me absolutely batshit. The fly in all this is that it's only $80 in parts from GM to fix it... Downside is that it's a labor-intensive job, over 3 hours because the turbo and cat have to come off and the oil cooler is kind of a douche to get apart. So, hopefully it holds together till spring when I'll have the change to have it fixed.
| That's a pain. It was ~$12 for the two o-rings from VW, and I changed the oil while I was at it. Took me a very lazy one hour to do the job, and that includes the PITA steel belly plate that needed to come off. It probably cost me more in lost oil than the parts themselves. The solid one goes in the bottom of the oil cooler, and the one with the little nubs goes on the top. Pull that metal piece off and the thing comes apart. I was happy I didn't have to break into the cooling system at all (although I did on Christmas eve to do the thermostat and coolant temp sensor). It's a common thing on VWs, but I don't recall doing them on my black wagon...but when I looked at the engine when I was home, I think all of the grime caked onto it held it all together, haha. (And yes, creepers are to be used as shelves, not as things to lie down on...I got made fun of endlessly for doing that.)
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