Posted by Hal/ Eastern WA on December 07, 2013 at 16:35:40 from (97.115.140.73):
In Reply to: Best Starting Car posted by Glenn F on December 07, 2013 at 15:59:17:
When I was a kid, I had a succession of Chrysler flathead 6 powered cars. None of them started well when it was really cold...until I discovered the wonderful world of headbolt heaters! By simply replacing one of the interior headbolts with such a heater, I found that my old, worn out Plymouth and Dodge 6s would start no matter how cold it was. An electric fuel pump helped some too.
Later I had cars with V8 engines. I added engine heaters to most of them, usually either the lower radiator hose type, or else the percolator type. After plugging in the electric heaters for an hour or so, my cars and pickups always started, even at 20 below.
But lately, I have not bothered to put engine heaters on my gas fueled vehicles. These days they are all fuel injected and seem to start quite efficiently at any temperature I have encountered. I do miss the fact that without having the engine pre-heated, the heater takes a little while to start putting out detectable heat, while with the engine heated up with electricity, the heater works right away.
The diesels are a different story. If I want them to start when it is very cold at all, I plug them in. Lots easier on the starters and batteries and lots more reliable starts than just using glow plugs.
I also think that OUR winter temperatures are a bit more moderate these days than they often were in the 60"s through the 80"s. I say that after just coming in from a long walk on the property. I didn"t look at the thermometer, but I think it was somewhere around 5 degrees. It is supposed to drop below zero tonight, the first time in a couple of years.
It is a little hard to compare cars now to cars of the 30"s through the 80"s. The newer cars are SO much more complicated, and also so comparatively expensive. Even the least expensive cars available today have large amounts of standard features that would have been options, if available at all, not that many years ago. But in my experience, the newer cars sure do start well, in almost any condition I have encountered. Good luck!
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