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Old 01-18-2011, 11:51 AM
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At my parents the other day.


About a month ago.


And today!


We lost alot tho. It rained and got warm about a week and a half ago.
 
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ya -43 isnt that nice at least the coldest they are calling for this week. Blazer is sitting in the garage with a heater on right now to keep it warm!. haha, fixed a rust bubble last night and need the paint to finish drying. Took the venza to work today, it wasnt plugged in and barely started this morning.
 
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Old 01-18-2011, 02:02 PM
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Mine barely started this morning but its not cuz the cold. Its +3 here. Bye bye snow.
 
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why even use the tent. when i used to go to Wisconsin people would just fish out the windows in their cars
 
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ya, you tie the line to your wiper arm and jig with it lol
 
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Brad...is that your dad driving that dirty ol' Ford in the background? :|
 
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Originally Posted by blazinloud
ya, you tie the line to your wiper arm and jig with it lol
 
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Old 01-18-2011, 07:47 PM
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Brad...is that your dad driving that dirty ol' Ford in the background? :|
Sadly yes. Hes trying to sway a deal cuz were landscaping the new BMW dealership which is owned by the same guy who owns the GM dealership. He wants the new denali HD. That truck is screwed too. Was stolen and offroaded and driven around town in 4lo. Found with 4 homeless guys living in it and FILTHY!

Lets just say this is the first time hes gone off the chevy trail for a light duty truck. Still have a 2001 F550 dump box with the 7.3 in it. Less than 100,000 on it.
 
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Originally Posted by ohsofly
Whoa -43 is enough wind chill to turn your coolant to slush if you dont warm the engine up...

Quanset, you were close. You could grow alot of *cough* tomatos in there, at least thats what they do in BC with those buildings.
you were close too it's quonset.

Also it does not matter what the windchill is something can only get as cold as the actual temperature the windchill just affects how quickly it will get to that temperature. So if it is -3 with a windchill of -33 a piece of metal outside will still only have a temperature of -3.
I store my truck in a tent garage with no heat in the winter and the coolant ratio in it is only 20% and 80% water I have never yet had it gel on me even when it has been an actual -45.
 
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Old 01-19-2011, 11:50 PM
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true, windchill is only noticed by living creatures. The only effect that wind has on anything else say, a blazer would be how quickly the heat is removed. Blazers warm, you park in the parking lot, the higher the windchill the faster it cools off, although it wont drop below the actual temperature.

I love the blazer, no matter what the temp have NEVER had any difficulties getting it to turn over, even if it was not plugged in.

The venza on the other hand, -34 w/o windchill tuesday morning it wasnt plugged in and BARELY started.

You know its cold outside when the sun is shining and all you get with the skiff of snow outside is sublimation!
 


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