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08-25-2012, 07:18 PM | #37 | |
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I wonder if the issue is living in a flat area that is close enough to mountains to suffer re how the wind comes from the mountains. I remember once going with my girlfriend to Reno, NV to celebrate the new year and intending to spend part of the time 35-40 miles away near Lake Tahoe skiing. I remember the wind got so bad that we couldn't leave Reno to ski. My friend who lived in Montana drove to California a few times during the Winter and each of those few times he tried the temperature was WAY below zero (he said at one point it got close to 50 below --- Fahrenheit of course, not Celsius) and he said he would pray that the cardboard would stay in place and he would check it (with leaving the engine running of course) whenever he stopped for food. I didn't ask him what he did re getting gas (car off=worry about restarting, but car on= dangerous,illegal). He lived just East of the Indian reservation that is next to Glacier National Park (Waterton on the Canadian side), so I wonder if the wind he experienced as he started ina SW direction toward California was similar to what I experienced in Reno during around New Year's day or what you might experience in Edmonton (with your proximity to the Canadian Rockies) or people in Calgary might experience. I remember reading long ago that Winnipeg is the coldest city in the world with a population of over 500,000. I remember thinking a major factor might be that it is so far away from an ocean, but I don't know if there would be any other MAJOR factors that would contribute to Winnipeg having that status (and I don't know if it currently has that status). Obviously, I'm FAR from an expert re weather. |
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08-25-2012, 08:46 PM | #38 |
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I do use my AC, but only going down hills in DFCO. Leave it on recirculate and you can be much more comfortable. I also unlinked the AC from defrost.
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08-25-2012, 11:43 PM | #39 |
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That is entirely possible .. the climate here is probably very close to Winnipeg, in fact we are further north than Winnipeg. This is the reason many Canadians travel south in the winter time. The rocky mountains are no where near Edmonton and they really don't affect our climate near as much as what happens in Calgary. But we do the cardboard thing in front of our radiators as it just makes our cars easier to start in the winter and makes them warm up faster.
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08-26-2012, 01:39 AM | #40 | |
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08-26-2012, 01:55 AM | #41 | |
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When it is about -30C (-22F) or lower .. you will find another weird thing that we do. Yes we plug our cars in. I know that many cars in the US don't even have block heaters .. and thus don't plug in. It is something I learned from my ex-wife (who is from Oregon). She had never plugged in her car ever until she came to Canada .. so it is another interesting thing we do to keep our cars running. As you can imagine . . depending on the conditions plugging your car in can mean the difference between starting and not starting. I don't know about my Yaris but my old Honda Accord would start in any weather (even -40C/-40F) , plugged in or not. It was just a real wonderful car in that way. Though I did have to put in gas line antifreeze in the gas tank .. as the gas line would potentially freeze even if the car would start. So .. moral of the story. Stay where it is warm if you can at all control it. Though I was talking today to the former owner of my Yaris .. and he told me that I should expect a 25% drop in fuel economy during the winter compared to the summer time. |
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