Cold weather testing
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That is 'cool' 
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-20F is about -29C, which is a regular winter for me here. Past few years, it hits -38C plus windchill several times a season. My truck sits while I'm at work but I plug it in on a timer about 99% of the time I know I'm going to use it.
Except last year. It was a 3 week cold spell, my truck wasn't used in five days at -35C but a cute little number a few doors down was struggling outside at 5am. I cringed, but I started up my 6.7 without being plugged in. It was a slow crank but it went first go. Ran it for 30 mins to get to operating temp just to spend a few minutes boosting a Yukon Denali. I ALWAYS get a smile and wave now though.
.-20F is about -29C, which is a regular winter for me here. Past few years, it hits -38C plus windchill several times a season. My truck sits while I'm at work but I plug it in on a timer about 99% of the time I know I'm going to use it.
Except last year. It was a 3 week cold spell, my truck wasn't used in five days at -35C but a cute little number a few doors down was struggling outside at 5am. I cringed, but I started up my 6.7 without being plugged in. It was a slow crank but it went first go. Ran it for 30 mins to get to operating temp just to spend a few minutes boosting a Yukon Denali. I ALWAYS get a smile and wave now though.
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From: Manitoba
I knew that Ford had a test facility in Thompson, Manitoba! There is also a U.S. military base there too. I actually live 3 hours north east of Thompson. As for cold starts, I'm pretty sure I have everyone beat. I've started my truck in -48C (-54F), not including wind chill, without my truck being plugged in. It was supposed to be plugged in, but I either forgot or some how it got unplugged during the night. Either way, I hit the glow plugs three times in a row and it fired up like a champ! That is why I run full synthetic oil. I try not to use my truck once it gets passed -30C but I can't control the weather on days when I need to use my truck.
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Since our trucks don't use evaporative cooling like our bodies do, wind chill will cool them faster, but will still not drop the temps below ambient. A -120° wind chill in a -50° ambient will still only drop your truck to -50°, but in a much faster time.
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