Many of us are getting to feel how our trucks start in cold weather with the latest cold snap. How well does your engine start?

I'm not going to lie. My Ecoboost struggled to start this morning at -18F. It struggled again leaving work. My wife's Toyota RAV4 with the four cylinder started right up with no drama.

 

My 5 Litre is starting good up here it is minus 30 C

 

-8 here this morning. Ecoboost started right up by remote start.

 

My new '13 Ecoboost first start of the day started right up, I cheat, ha ha have heated garage
For the second start of the day the other night at work, it was -17 when I left and it started right up no problems .... so I'm happy

 

-18F for a couple days now in the morning and no problem starting it by remote.

 

Do yourself & your engine a favor & change oil to a high quality full syn oil! Both my vehicles engines a 5.4 on the truck & the 4.6 in my daily driver Crown Vic start no problem with the Mobil-1 5w-20 in the sump & MotorCraft filter! People claim you don't need a full syn? Tell that to your engine in sub zero cold starts!

 

I had to update my 6.0 thread with the results of my starting attempt this morning.

 

I've got a 2009 F150 and since it was new it doesn't like cold weather. First, it barely cranks when cold (sub-zero) even though it is running the 5W -whatever oil. Luckily it catches and starts even though the cranking isn't very confidence inspiring. Then it makes a howling noise like there is a dry bearing on the alternator or somewhere. Not a good noise, but it goes away after a few seconds. Then I've had strange issues, like the seat belt warning buzzer sounding constantly until it warmed up. Unplugging and replugging the seat belt and restarting the truck doesn't stop it. You just have to drive it until the truck warms up enough, then it stops. Pretty annoying. Or the brakes being almost non-existent on the first application. Of course none of these problems happens unless it is a few degrees below zero, and that happens rarely enough around here that taking it to the dealer would be a waste of time.
It seems to be more of a warm weather truck.

Terry

 

2013 eb remoted started at -4 this morning with no hesitation as I watched the exhaust, but it took about 17 miles for the trans oil temp come up to normal.

 

I've had slow cranking at -24 but it fired right up after about a 2.5 second crank on our 2011 EB.

 

No help here but my 5.0 started up just gone this morning at 21° which is freezing for my area, so I'm happy.

 

Mine has done well, but temps here haven't gotten much below zero. Full synthetic oils do better in extreme cold but aren't necessary for the majority of people. If I lived up in Canada I'd probably be running a 0w30 in the winter.

 

My Eco started fine, but cranked a little bit slower at 4 degrees in the morning.

 

-30f started right up. 5.0

 

You wouldn't be the same celltech on snowblowerforum.com would you? I think you posted in my HS624 thread.