how cold are your cold starts and how do you prepare your truck

[Livinalittle]

My truck's a 2013 and it's been in Ontario its whole life; I've never used the block heater once. Just autostart, let it warm up for 15 minutes, and take it easy until it's up to temp.

 

[BWL]

Warmed up to -33 so now my tailgate drops again. I guess I'll leave the assist in since this extreme cold is pretty infrequent. I can live with it not working on the rare occasion it crosses -40 rather than me forgetting the shock is out and just dropping it. Done it on a couple friends trucks that don't have it and gets me a wtf every time.

 

[Travis8352]

Heres my forcast. Coldest cold start for me this year so far was -8

 

[BWL]

Well I put my new snow tires on. Supply chain problems really limited my options so I tried an off brand this time around. Hoping for the best. Hercules avalanche 275/60-20. Paid more for them than my hankook ipikes, which I've found to be a great tire, but nothing much I can do about that at the moment. Just bought what I could.

 

[rocket]

lot of water gates on the lugs....at least it shows some thought went into making them....

 

[BWL]

lot of water gates on the lugs....at least it shows some thought went into making them....

Yeah, tons of siping and the studs don't hurt either. More worried about durability and wear than traction on these. I've seen a lot of tread separation and quick wear from being a really soft compound on a lot of the off brand tires.

 

[gfh77665]

I think I started my RAM once when it was about 45 outside, maybe it was even 42 or 43.

 

[turkeybird56]

This past winter, in February, was -5 F out when started RAM. I haven't been in cold that cold since in the Alps in 1988 and Goose Bay and Northern New York 76-80. Brrrrrr. That is way too cold for the middle of Texas.

 

[bcbouy]

last winter the coldest day we got was -41c. just out of curiosity i went out to try and start my 2012 5.7 2500 without a block heater and out in the open weather.it was a scary start to say the least.the new p/w got plugged in to run the block heater at the middle of october.the wifes mazda has no block heater so i at least hooked up a battery tender to it.

 

[BWL]

last winter the coldest day we got was -41c. just out of curiosity i went out to try and start my 2012 5.7 2500 without a block heater and out in the open weather.it was a scary start to say the least.the new p/w got plugged in to run the block heater at the middle of october.the wifes mazda has no block heater so i at least hooked up a battery tender to it.

I imagine it squealed a fair bit. I find the pulleys and belt are noisy on start up when it gets that cold. Guess the tolerances are that little bit tighter until it warms up.